Posted on 02/21/2019 6:18:36 PM PST by rktman
Great civilisations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.
So concluded the historian Arnold Toynbee in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History. It was an exploration of the rise and fall of 28 different civilisations.
He was right in some respects: civilisations are often responsible for their own decline. However, their self-destruction is usually assisted.
The Roman Empire, for example, was the victim of many ills including overexpansion, climatic change, environmental degradation and poor leadership. But it was also brought to its knees when Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410 and the Vandals in 455.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
We get closer to Idiocracy every day.
Yes, “we” are, BBC. And you are leading us there.
It’s collapsing as we comment....
I don’t suppose they paid any attention to ‘sandy O’s’ 12 year prediction then?
Rome wasn’t sacked in a Day....
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
Not a lot of sack in DC these day. ‘Cept at the WH.
You can bet your snake skin boots the world as we know it is changing. The key is to not be of this world.
Take the time and brush up on your Jordan B. Peterson. There is a war of ideas being waged, and if enough people get off their ass and pay attention, the war will be won.
as long as Great Britain entertains disbanding common law that gave the planet civilization by importing and accepting islam (and the muzlim marxist coalition), it will continue
Mayans didn't build temples in the jungle. They built them in the middle of their cities, which were as densely populated as Los Angeles is today. In two hundred years they went from their peak to almost non existent.
Rome was destroyed from within. The Romans imported outsiders to do the work and the outsiders took over.
We are doing the same now.
I guess those old Romans shouldn't have been driving all those gas guzzling V8 SUVs and chariots. Bad Romans, bad, bad Romans! They brought it on themselves through AGW. </sarc>
Yeah, those roman SUVs. Maybe it was lion farts, raising lions for the slave games. I think it was partly drinking from lead goblets that led to madness. Maybe the same thing afflicts modern day liberals.
Road? We are on the autopista
To be fair, that’s a taping of the hit BBC show, “What Colour Are Your Shoelaces?”
It’s like we are living in a sci-fi dystopia where the poorest people are the most likely to be obese and are the most entertained poor people ever. Hard to imagine any sort of widespread sustained civil unrest while these conditions persist.
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