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Counter-argument(s): -- The Republic, post-Ruusan, was explicitly founded upon the (appararent) extermination of the one truly peer-level enemy in known existence. The previous period had seen centuries filled with the excesses of unrestrained military forces, so the reaction to this was...

I'd say Brin is completely wrong on most points when it comes to SW. The underlying problem is that Brin mostly doesn't get SW, and approaches it mostly as sci-fi, which it isn't. He had this argument with Stover, who knows it's a mythology, and that it should be seen as such. Different...

If something takes a millennium to cause your downfall, is it still a "suicide note"? Or are all systems simply burdened by inevitable weaknesses, which -- under entropy's unfeeling weight -- ultimately cause them to decline and fall? I feel that everlasting success is an unreasonable standard...

In fact, the Republic was extremely successful, until the Banite Sith managed to actively subvert it. At the same time, the Sith were also manipulating events to drive the Jedi Order into more of an 'ivory tower' of isolation, which caused the Jedi to become unhealthily dogmatic and inflexible...