Posted on 09/04/2016 4:18:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Two things Rome didn’t have:
1) the U.S. Constitution
2) the Lord of Creation
Welfare is used to buy goods advertised in the media: TV, internet, papers.
So a percentage of all our welfare goes into the pockets of the media, which entertains the masses.
It’s a textbook “Bread and Circus”.
The great danger of the “Bread and Circus” is that the media will support the government that expands this scheme, and oppose those that won’t.
It’s a ratchet-effect that constantly increases this drain on the economy.
The Founders assumed a varied and disparate media would not be able to coerce money from the public funds, but national TV networks (which they never foresaw) can and do.
For a start we can require ala carte cable programming to increase the media consumer’s power, and remove anti-First Amendment licensing requirements.
If Obama has his way, it will be replaced by a Muslim Caliphate that will rule over a polyglot country of many factions and languages.
Excellent article. Thank you for sharing it.
Worthy of being printed to hard copy for my future reference file.
For the incredible story of how 20,000 Roman soldiers were defeated by Germanic forces in a forest, check out this YouTube documentary.
Ancient Black Ops - The Ghost Warriors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki_Woxuzwss
are there Lessons to be Learned?
1) Join
2) stand up and get shot
3) Go underground and resist and your friends were shot.
4) Leave, but where are you going to go?
5) Survive for the rebuilding.
A “tragedy” is a play where the characters do themselves in in spite of themselves. I think the article outlines a tragedy.
I do not mean to sound negative. We may slow the process down with Reagan or Trump but in the end, a reboot may be the only cure for the current tragedy.
But I do believe that Trump may be the most gentle reboot (revolution) option we have. But there is still hell to pay for all the prior bad decisions.............
Yet Gibbon’s famous “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” cited Christianity as a negative, saying that it caused Roman men to lose their martial spirit and to stop going into the legions. “Christianity and Barbarism,” is how he put it.
"The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease."
IOW, the price of liberty: Budweiser, The NFL, and FREE STUFF.
But you have to have the moral “intention” to follow both.
If your socialist “morals” OPPOSE viciously both of those ... what do you do? Fight them in the courts, in the public opinion, and in the classroom (er, propaganda indoctrination) of a child’s daily life.
Declining patriotism? Check.
Debasing of currency? Check.
Politicians giving away free stuff for votes? Check.
Wildly unchecked government spending? Check.
The good webmaster has distilled many of the same thought as I have. We are a witness to history going down a repeat path.
Mr. Robinson...I have been studying the fall of Rome for about 15 years.
IMHO...we are mirroring them. Of course, most of the west is as well.
We can’t fall. Our postage stamps say “Forever” on them.
This distinction is important because Sea Empires and Land Empires grow and die in very different manners.
Land Empires tend to take hundreds of years to become powerful and slow build the empire. They can take massive blows and recover and their fall tends to be gradual with many small recoveries.
Sea Empires tend to become empires very quickly as with America in 1945(We went from controlling America to half the world in 4 years) and tend to fall just as quickly after a sudden shock to the system WW2 for England or Athens with the Sicilian Expedition.
It's likely that America's fall will be just as sudden as most sea empires. A year or 2 of a bad war and everything will come crashing down. Hillary is a likely candidate to get us into such a war. However, there is room for hope.
Sea Empires have an easier time reforming themselves with strong leadership than land empire do. Also there have been cases of sea empires become land empires (Carthage is a good example of this). With the right leadership we might be able to switch to a land empire and last much longer.
Grab a joint and chill man.
Thank you very,very much and forwarded!
Thanks Larry Lucido.
ping for later
Fall of Rome bump for later....
Great article. Thanks.
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