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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. Read this and weep.
Every great empire eventually collapses. The end days have commonly witnessed a tawdry decline of moral standards amongst the citizens, excessive consumption and depraved behaviour, feckless and indolent inhabitants grown so far from their empire building forefathers as to be unrecognisable as descendents of their fearless and battle hardened ancestors.
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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. Read this and weep.
Every great empire eventually collapses. The end days have commonly witnessed a tawdry decline of moral standards amongst the citizens, excessive consumption and depraved behaviour,...
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Their leaders, too, sank ever deeper into the mire of depravity. Very often at the end of an empire the leaders had become god-like (at least in their own minds) and excused themselves any cruelty. One thinks of Caligula, ripping open the stomach of his pregnant sister-wife because he couldnt wait to see the immortal god-child she was supposedly bearing him. Depravity and a sense of omnipotence go hand in hand, they are the yin and yang of leaders in end times.. They feel that they are truly untouchable. History repeatedly has shown them to be wrong, usually fatally wrong.One kind of hopes that history will, as ever, repeat itself.
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One kind of hopes that history will, as ever, repeat itself.Every Empire that passes leaves behind it a legacy, very often a legacy of good things that belie the cruelty and systematic violence that created the Empire in the first place. The question What did the Romans do for us, made famous by the Monty Python team in their great movie The Life of Brian, reminded us that the Romans did indeed leave an enormous legacy : a superb road system, bridges which still stand today, fabulous buildings, aqueducts and sanitation, great poetry, the list goes on. The British Empire left a legacy of railroads, systems of government and law, education. Even the Nazis left behind them the autobahn.
Please someone tell me, what will the American Empire leave behind in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan?
What did it leave behind in Vietnam?
What has it left behind where-ever it has poked its bloodied snout into the affairs of smaller and weaker nations?
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