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RPutnamJr -> RE: would you support a revolution (3/14/2007 1:08:29 PM)
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Revolution is just a matter of time. For even the USA will eventually fall as have all previous societies. And when you consider how long those societies held together the USA is just an infant. Most societies have fallen due to internal forces more than due to the external forces placed upon them. Look at the Roman Empire, 1,000 years to its rise another 1,000 years to its final fall. If you count that up that is just 2,000 years, but when compared to just over 200 years of the USA being around we are just 10% along the way when compared to Ancient Rome.
Rome was not defeated by the barbarians coming across the boarders but instead by the internal decay from within that caused the people to loose faith in the government. The world nowdays still faces the same problems that ancient Rome faced. Pax Romana...Roman peace. Rome became stagnant because if stopped expanding. They had conquored all around them. They became the Big kid on the block that nobody wanted to mess with. And with that came peace. And with peace comes stagnation and decay.
Then came England, Pax Britannia, British peace. England was the new Big kid on the block and ruled most of the world at one time. It was said at one time that the sun never set on the British Empire. Look at England now, just a small island, without any real true power anymore holding onto past traditions of greatness.
Our American society has grown to become the big kid on the block. Pax Americana, American peace. But we also have forgotten all the sacrifices that were necessary to get to where we are. And because of that, we are no longer willing to do what is necessary and right for we have become lazy as a society. We have taken for granted the wealth and freedoms that we now enjoy.
Thus the USA will fall not because of external threats but because of internal decay just as ancient Rome and the British Empires fell. And they lasted thousands of years. Then throw in the Asian dynasties, the Egyptian dynasty, Persians, etc. They have all come and gone leaving us with what, just old ruins. What will the contribution of America be to the history of the world only time will tell, but I doubt seriously if we as Americans will last long enough to be more than a footnote within the history of the world.
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