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Survival bias. I get this is a joke but...

There are many societies which have collapsed. We can't know who predicted it because they are dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse

And of course, this list will no longer exist after societal collapse.

Societal collapse does not necessarily mean the loss of all writing or knowledge of that society. The wikipedia article you linked to proves this.

Out there, somewhere, is a nerd, laser etching Wikipedia onto metal plates, and burying them to be dug up later, just to be able to say, I knew this would happen!

Needs to carved in stone if they are serious.....

Then Ruin would be able to influence what is written.

I think it's glass actually? Or something like glass.

sort of like The Order of St. Liebowitz the Engineer from _A Canticle for Liebowitz_

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