[Varda]

I've watched all the Time Team episodes about the collapse of the Roman Empire in Britain. It all seems eerily familiar.

[amihow]

We are different. We have a constitution founded on the laws of nature and nature’s God. Going back to our roots will put us back on track. For the Romans, to have gone back would have sent them over the edge of the flat earth.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

After the Romans left, the people of Britain should have kept the electricity going somehow. Then they’d have been all right.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

three hundred years after Caesar first invaded the untamed island in 55 BC

This statement is somewhat inaccurate. Julius Caesar conducted reconnaissance and fact-finding missions in Britannia. He never committed his troops to actual fighting there. The real invasion of Britannia began in 43 AD when Claudius was emperor. The British tribes put up a good fight, too. It took about 40 years for the Romans to finally get the island under control.

[KarlInOhio]

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. – George Santayana

Those who have not read Santayana's book The Life of Reason are condemned to paraphrase it a trivial way. The fuller statement by him deals with retentiveness being necessary to make mere change into progress.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

And it goes on from there.

The Life of Reason

[BobL]

Not a problem for me - if society breaks down I’ll get out my AR and do me some deer huntin’. Lots of deer where I live. So no problem!

[Clemenza]

My lesson from Roman Britain: build a better wall to keep the Scots out.

[Eagles6]

Brandon was installed to complete the destruction of the Republic.
The framework was erected during King Odumbo’s reign.
The election of Shrillary was supposed to be the final nail in the coffin, but, the American people screwed that up by voting for PDJT in such great numbers, that we overcame the voter fraud.

[Cronos]

The article compares the province of Britain with “any Roman city”. That’s an incorrect comparison.

Roman Britain was Romanized but nit like Gaul as the Celtic Briton language still remained unlike in France or Spain.