~5 century AD: The Empire is ruled by an elite of military men that use the Emperor as a puppet; due to massive debts and financial problems, the Empire cannot afford to hire foreign mercenaries to defend itself (Roman citizens have long ago being replaced by mercenaries in the army), and starts “selling” parts of the Empire in exchange for protection. Eventually, the mercenaries figure out that the “Emperor has no clothes”, and overrun and pillage the Empire.
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humanity falls back into the Bronze Age (think: eating squirrel meat and living in a cave); 12 centuries of religious zilotry (The Great Inquisition, Crusades) and intellectual darkness follow: science, commerce, philosophy, human rights become unknown concepts until they are rediscovered again during the Age of Enlightenment in 17th century AD.
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Mercenaries (UN peacekeepers, bribed warlords, arm-twisted allies, recent unassimilated immigrants, and the desperate, poor and out of shape) now make up a larger part of the tip of the spear that projects American power. America is in the process of slow-motion selling off of the Southwest to appease the millions of peasant illegals it cavalierly allowed to invade and settle in the country.
wow what a dick
~3-4 century AD Rome = 2000-2010 America. (You’ll notice America’s progression through the stages of empire is much faster than was Rome’s. This is the blessing — or curse — of high tech mass communication.) The native stock of America, (specifically, the betters of that stock), have stopped having kids. Vice and corruption are on the rise. (See: Chicago, CRA, Goldman Sachs, neocon lies, Enron, Madoff… I could go on.) Economic and political instability are the order of the day. While America’s presidents aren’t being assassinated, our elections have been nailbiters since 2000, and partisanship is at a fevered pitch. A reborn religion called Islam threatens to co-opt the sympathies of Western societies’ rootless rejects and masculinized women. Except for the thinnest upper class slice, betters now ape the habits of their lessers.
ok so this was ALL pretty fucking stupid but this part made me want to claw my eyes out. Since the adoption of the anti-crash measures instituted post 1929, haven't we had around a fifth as many financial meltdowns as prior to the Great Depression?
Also, I have a really hard time understandign the conflation of (I'm assuming) radical Islam and "masculine women". Because Islamic extremists are very accepting of feminism/masculine women? how can you even act like the two "movements" are allied in any way?
1970-2000 America. The scourge of single momhood, free and easy divorce, child support laws, majority female colleges, DADT repealed, gay marriage, game, etc etc ad infinitum.
DADT was repealed way past 2000 and we still don't have gay marriage legalized nationwide (beyond the tax accounting) let alone in even 1/3 of the states. This is stupid and this guy is really trying so desperately to make an analogy where there really isn't one.
this entire blogpost is pretty pathetic, made more so by the fact that this incompetent didn't even write it, but is just farming Reddit for replies. What a laughable attempt at analogy and historical analysis.