the fall of the roman empire compared to america

The elite sheltered from taxes while the small farmers are going under? After World War II I think we made the mistake of thinking we had to be everywhere all the time. I am equally as hard on corporations and government, because I see the former as having way too much influence on the Tea Party/Republican political agenda. I don't know where we're going now...I wonder if the people running the government do, either!In the last hundred years, we have lost much of the resource base that, at the same time was making the U.S. a major world player. HubPagesCopyright © 2020 HubPages Inc. and respective owners.As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. Those comments sort of bothered me because I am thinking, what do they want to take our country back to?

Ceases to exist. The general malaise of the people; the loss of civic pride and civic responsibility?I thought, very uneasily, yes, it sounds familiar. I think I learned more from your comment than you did from my article. Let’s not forget of the invasion of other countries on the behalf of the “Cabal”!The mind manipulation games it plays on the consumers and the using of every born citizen as chattel to back it Debits with the Bankers! There seemed to be, on the face of it, no outward reasons for this successful model of government and economy to cease to be successful. The scientific community can only do so much when the oil/resources run out and the empire is broke.Interestingly enough, Germany nurtures its green resources, ie. It is quite sad.Unless we enter into a period of constraint and responsibility, the end game may already be destined for the American era--it is a difficult time, but if politicians continue to bow to the corporate powers that be, it won't be a very fulfilling time for the average citizen--it will be just another Greek tale of tragedy with an American twist.Thanks for the comment, Infinite.

Also, I believe a lot of businesses became greedy over the years deciding they could outsource rather than figure out ways to save money while keeping jobs here. From then on, there is a natural reactive decline, until, in the end, the person, or society, or business...dies. We have outrun our resources, as evidenced by the current debt crisis. We are headed toward serfdom unless as a people we unite on common issues and stop bickering over petty nonsense. We do seem to be in a downward spiral, and I see nothing on the horizon that can reverse it.Very interesting comparison. Like America, it was ruled by kings in its early history. Comparing the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” with the rise and now decline of the British and now American empires has been something of an intellectual parlor game for now Consider the parallel “ages of man” dispute that has been going on for several thousand years — the ancient Greek poets I don’t think any of us knows whether the United States has already passed peak awesome, and while my mind says Calvert says the Romans were a “very religious,” pious people who believed in honoring their ancestors and tradition. I wish you could make it home. It seems inevitable.Thanks for wanting to use my comment in a new hub, you come up with good ideas! It was browsing through that book that brought this whole thing to mind, and I'm actually quite serious about the survival kit. I really would except President Obama from this statement. "Nothing happens that is not planned". This would explain why we, the human race, seem to be condemned to repeat history, over and over.The collapse may be a violent collapse, or it may be a peaceful collapse. Thank you again.The correlation of America and the Roman Empire is not new, but the most recent decade have certainly shown the cracks in the system, and the similarities of the two empires...good hub...wonderfully written.I watched an interesting documentary last night surrounding the last forty years focussing on the book, The Limits of Growth by Paul Ehrlich.An interesting point was the installation of solar panels by President Carter with their quick removal by Ronald Reagan a few years later--one tried to start a culture of resource conservation, the other on American prominence and entitlement, "screw the resource use...we have a right to resources...especially those of us who are wealthy.

As I did, I was shocked to discover what the decline of the Roman Empire and our current economic situation here in the United States had in common.I paused to flip through it once again. We have a God Giving Rights to Enjoyment Of Life with out infringements!” Give me Liberty or give me Death”! If it fails for lack of effort, we will have ourselves to blame as much as those leftists actively trying to tear it down with the 1619 Project.The 1619 Project wants to reorient American history around a year of black enslavement and disaster. It's not that hard to see a decline if one is paying attention. It'd be just awful to think of all my friends, both actual and virtual, getting caught in a national crisis with say, no water...or no means to be self-sufficient in nature, or (because I live in the frozen North), outside in the winter and unprepared. Platinum Owl, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbons is still in print. They also cherished courage, honesty, and duty, and their convictions, he says, were key to their rise as a culture. The inexpensive version (the one I own) is a Penguin classic. The Bell curve is swooping upwards from the inception of the complex society (or individual, or business); the thing is growing all the time, reaching its maximum peak, its heyday. Thank you!Have you read any Rufus Fears? China will be the leading power in time, they already are becoming so economically.Ah, Marellen...my mom says, and she's right, "Hope for the best and prepare for the worst." I can't get back to the states now but I still keep saying I'd rather be there standing side by side with my fellow Americans than here.This is an excellent hub of which I enjoyed greatly. Also for the tip on Rufus Fears. What happens next? if we dont start trying to fix our problems we could follow and have our own collapse. Societies become increasingly advanced, increasingly complex, and increasingly technically sophisticated at the expense of their resource base, to the point where the resource base can no longer accommodate the complex society and the society is no longer sustainable.Once the complex society is no longer sustainable, it collapses into smaller, less complex units, which ARE sustainable with the available resources.