There are too many parallels between the America of today and Rome in its last days to ignore.

Michael Smith--No matter which of the fallen great civilizations one studies, unless they faced a natural disaster of cataclysmic proportion, there are three common themes in their fall: 

1) even though there was a general acknowledgement trouble was brewing, they believed they could continue doing what they were doing without consequence, 

2) a distinct lack of will within their leadership cadre to address fundamental existential problems, and 

3) there was (is?) almost always a faction that seeks to gain, retain or increase its power using the decline as a mechanism, most of the time profiting off the decline even as they promise to stanch it.
This American Greatness article by Alexander Zubatov is both American and great. 

Well worth a read. 

There are too many parallels between the America of today and Rome in its last days to ignore.

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We Are Living in the Ruins of Our Civilization

It is evening, very late evening. I am walking in the remains of what once was New York City. Broke