Isn’t the Roman Empire a remarkable case study? In spite of tremendous power, wealth, influence and infrastructure, it fell.
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We could site a number of causes, but really it boils down to one cause: convolution.
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So many viewpoints pushed through so many laws and policies. Everything stopped making sense. It was a government gone wild.
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The United States would do well to learn from this. When policy stops making basic common sense and is justified by the perspective that the common people are just too stupid to understand, then there is a problem.
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The Roman Empire did not fall due to lack of genius. It fell due to lack of common sense.
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If the US does not wake up, it will face the same fate.
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So saddened by what is going on in Libya right now.
That seems to apply to other countries and to individuals as well as nations.
I’ve always wondered what happened to the Roman Empire. At one point, it was all of Western civilization. Then it descended into oblivion. Thanks, Michael, for sharing about such an important part of history.
When I was 10 or 11, I wrote a paper comparing the rise and fall of the Roman Empire to the United States. This was back in the early 1960’s. I doubt there were valid insights in the paper, but it struck me how, even as a kid, I had a deep concern about the state of things, even though I didn’t understand it.
Michael, thank you so much for what you’re doing to effect change and to heal the planet.