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[Travis McGee]

No one pays tribute, no one declares allegiance to Caesar,

Actually yes, since the world uses the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. Until this very year, as one example, the world has had to purchase dollars in order to purchase oil contracts. And like the Romans, we have debased our dollar/denarius to the point that we are going to lose our status. To continue the example: Iran is now selling oil to Japan directly for Yen. This may seem a small point, but it is anything but.

[Delacon]

Thanks for the ping ND.

[hershey]

America isn’t Rome, but the barbarians are real.

[wardaddy]

Hard to believe but I can tell in a nanosecond that Boas got to some here.

Shame.

multilineal cultural evolution which birthed relativism...rubbish

there is no doubt that while the world is different and we are different....more benevolent to be sure, yet there are similarities between us and Rome:

Jared Diamond ...more rubbish...

We are decaying from within and from allowing our borders to be wide open.

There is no doubt that inability to enforce one’s border is paramount and this is where we are quite a bit like Rome though their invasion was from the north mostly and better armed (I hope)

Governmental fiscal irresponsibility....another common theme.

The rise of homosexuality...i know the social libs here will scoff but at least in the west this has been a clear signal repeatedly.

Dissolution of a united belief system or dare I say religion. Nations that lasted the longest had shared views on the almighty. It’s an adhesive folks of course today laugh at since we are so much smarter today.

There are some other comparisons too. For me, if the host culture is willing to kill one in four of it’s offspring for convenience then there is no way in hell that civilization can stave off the “barabarians” period. I believe we are living that right now.

So while unlike Rome in many ways....we are like them in others....though I’m uncertain how they were on abortion. Since they had no birth control as effective as ours, it may have been less an issue.

[anonsquared]

How true... their roads are still useable.