Fall of the Empire
 

Waiting for the barbarians

A once-great empire, Rome fell into catastrophic cultural and economic decline. Morris Berman on chilling parallels with modern America

http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_r...564084,00.html

You also have a large welfare population living on the backs of the taxpayers, and you have liberal Democrats who work against the national security for their own partisan political purposes.

With leeches and traitors like that, it does hasten the demise of the civilization.

You should read the book Empire of Debt. The author makes similar comparisons. He writes it with a large focus on the economy and the depleting value of the US$

That's exactly how the cyclical approach in history views the fate of all powerful societies.

Starting from their struggle for power ----> The great Era ----> The decline -----> The rise of another society.

There's a famous saying: Today's empires are tomorrows ashes.

Not stating anything negative, just for people to be aware. We are in a good position of having thousands of years history to learn from. Whether or not we do remains to be seen. :2 cents:

I do believe the Roman Empire lasted 500+ years, and the Byzantine Empire which came from the Roman Empire lasted 1000+ years. I still think we have quite some time until the American Empire completely falls.

The US isn't an Empire so how can it fall as a Empire ?

The Romans threw out all rules of society and the US isn't anywhere near
this point yet.

The Romans used blood and death as entertainment and you can imaging what effect this has on a society after a few hundred years ?

But what about "The Dark Ages" that engulfed much of Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire to around 1500AD ?

And don't forget the Byzantine Empire in effect only grew out the fall of the Rome. History generaly follows a pattern of one Empire rising and falling only to be replaced by another.

The US may not be an empire in the classic sense but there are many paralels to be drawn.

Rome actualy "invented" many of the democratic rules of society that are still the basis of much of western civilisation. However it's also true to say that towards the end Rome had become so corrupt and decadent that in effect it rotted from the inside out rather than it's demise being caused mainly by external pressures.