Are We Living Through The End Of An Empire?
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Published 2023-12-01
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All Comments (21)
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As a non American I really do hope America becomes just another normal country that cares for its own citizens and not bombing farmers thousands of miles away.
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Imagine if, when Rome declined, instead of just fracturing and resulting in new nations, Rome had the ability to end the planet by attempting to cling to power, either by consuming so hard they cook the place, or through spite with a ridiculous arsenal of nuclear warheads
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My father, who came from Egypt, always referred to America as Rome, and would occasionally say, “ the Romans are crazy “. He meant the money printing, the loss of morality, and acting as if nothing can stop their reign, and was very right.
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I have lived in the United States my whole life, but over the last few years i have seriously considered leaving. If you seriously step back and look at things, everything is so crazy and toxic
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America is like a Titanic. Too big to turn, too slow to react, too proud to recognize We had already hit the iceberg. Above all there are not enough life boats for everyone.
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The mention Asimov's Foundation resonates with me; one paragraph that always stuck with me was when the character pointed at a broken elevator sign and said "this is the empire declining". The person he was talking to thought he was exagerating, but he went on to explain: if low cost but highly visible repairs are being neglected, what do you think happens to the high cost invisible ones? If infrastructure is decaying, the empire is already falling.
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there's a famous Arabic poem that says basically : ''The nations endure only with their ethics. When their ethics are gone, they too will be gone. '' America's fall was always inevitable
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"An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again. But one which crumbles from within? That's dead... forever.” Helmut Zemo, Captain America: Civil War (2016)
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the worst part of this is that the solutions to prevent collapse are actually simple, they just require 1) a lot of work and 2) for the greed of the powerful to be culled and 3) For a certain part of society to admit that there are problems that need dire solutions. So we are fucked.
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Another thing worth mentioning too is that the world today moves at a MUCH faster pace than the world two thousand years ago did, or even just 200 years ago did
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fun fact: The United States and Israel were the only countries who voted that food was not a human right. There were 5 others that didn't vote in the UN but America and Israel were the only two who actually didn't. (this was voted on in 2022 btw)
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Growing up in the 80/90s In Brazil, I used to think that US was a great country, as a grew up, studied and travelled around the world, USA became the one country I would never want to o live.
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Crumbling infrastructure, rampant corruption, military stretched over multiple conflicts, and severe inequality fit the bill for the US right now pretty well
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The US can definitely be compared to Rome. Corruption at the deepest level was one of the factors that destroyed it. It won’t be an invading force that destroys America.
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No empire has lasted forever. Now is the turning point.
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Not to mention the world today moves at a faster pace, a single event has a potential of changing everything. Empires come and go as power consume the leaders, and weight gets heavier.
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It is not a question of whether the American empire will fall. It obviously will. The more important question is how it will fall. A slow decline in living standards? Partition into smaller states? Civil war(s)? Environmental disaster? People no longer believing in the mythology that unifies the imperial project?
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Another thing that absolutely fucked us is our urban planning. The moment shit hits the fan, this country will be unsalvageably fucked, especially when people are stranded in their isolated suburbs without food…
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That’s why I left the U.S 3 years ago to live in the Balkans. I’m finally happy in life and have free time to live life. Never looked backed.
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Whoever made this, I'm not American nor a socialist, and I only stumbled upon this, but this may be one of the most relevant videos I've seen in youtube.
