[lentulusgracchus]

The entire edifice is so rotten ....I think natural law may be an upcoming act.

Sometimes I might agree with that, other times I might reflect that rotten edifices, like the Roman Empire, might go on and on, for a very long time: from the corruption of Roman society beginning in 202 BC with the victory over Hannibal at Zama, down to the deposing of Romulus Augustulus, the last (puppet) emperor of the West in 476 AD, was 678 years. In Constantinople, the Empire lasted until 1453, another 977 years.

That all said, yes, sometimes I do feel like we're being consigned.

[RobbyS]

Actually until 1453. But not even Gibbon has succeeded in making the public aware how long Roman civilization lasted.

Trivia. Napoleon intended to make Constantinople his new capital, and of course dressed himself up like Augustus Caesar, to who he bore an astonishingly close physical resemblance.