Call me delusional but I genuinely think that America will be given the same respect that ancient Rome and Greece got. I feel like our true potential hasn’t been unlocked and that we are just starting out.
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If you read about the fall of the Roman empire, to me it reads like a parallel of what is do America in. Greed, political corruption, moral decay.
The Romans were going through this experience for the first time, They had no prior historical account that showed a civilization face with similar issues whose remedies failed. We do have the clear lesson laid out by Rome failures, and we are ignoring that lesson.
I think about this often. Yes - greed, political corruption and moral decay are featured heavily in both. But I always end up at the same question: do you think there were native-born Romans gathering at a local tavern, screaming about how much Rome sucked - and how Rome needed to be more like the Barbarians?
We've arrived at that point in America - where native born people hate the country. I don't think Rome ever arrived at that point. Native Romans believed, until the fall of Rome and likely to the present day, that Rome was the greatest civilization to ever grace the planet. They firmly held that Romans were superior to Barbarians.
A portion of America wants to become the Barbarians. That will destroy us faster than anything that toppled Rome.