The Gilded Cage: How the Collapse of a 1,000-Year-Old ‘Hydraulic City’ Exposes the Terrifying Fragility of Our Own Government
When the Khmer Empire built the most sophisticated water management system the world had ever seen, they believed it was infallible. Then the climate changed, and the system that sustained a million people became the instrument of their destruction. As the DHS shuts down and America’s political infrastructure seizes up, the parallels are impossible to ignore.
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