It's been 3 years today since Jim Rob posted this, but I thought it was worth reposting. "The more things change, the more they remain the same."
There’s a reason why the Chinese civilization has existed over 3,000 years.
Meanwhile western cultures come and go.
Anyone who will know the #1 reason on the Fall of Rome? Watch on Youtube the 10? part series on Rome and watch the last 2 episodes only...
It was IMMIGRATION. The foreigners or immigrants did NOT want to assimilate into the army and cities and had their own barbaric cultures, which resulted in the slow break-up of the empire.
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To me, it’s fairly straightforward. Although you may have freedom now, you won’t keep it unless you continue to fight for it. Just because we don’t have a draft currently, and there is no Vietnam War looming for us as there was during the youth of many FReepers, doesn’t mean that there aren’t the same kind of threats in the world. Unless you are willing to die for principle, you will be at the mercy of others.
I have said for many years (and Gibbon and Montesquieu agree) diversity is a nation killer and it is dooming the United States to the same fate as Rome.