Re:“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009)
by mjfl on Saturday March 17, 2018 @08:21PM
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I don't know why you're being downvoted - the analogy to modern politics they are trying to push is hilariously bad. Are we really blaming the Romans for not supplicating the Goths and then getting massacred by them, leading to a 1000 year technological stagnation? Are we really trying to project Donald Trump onto Marcus Aurelius? You've got to be kidding me.
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Re:“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009)
by rdiddly on Sunday March 18, 2018 @02:25PM
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No, we're projecting Donald Trump onto a hypothetical Roman politician imagined in 2009 by Ugo Bardi the Oil Drum writer, due to the coincidental and quite obvious similarity of their "wall" platforms, including both the expense and the futility, as well as the fact that both are set in empires collapsing under their own weight. Is it so hard to see?
Re:“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009)
by meri_dian on Sunday March 18, 2018 @02:51PM
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America isn't an empire, and is hardly collapsing under its own weight. It's actually doing incredibly well, aside from some annoying partisan bickering.
Re:“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009)
by rdiddly on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:06PM
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That is, as they say, the naive view.
Re:“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009)
by icebraining on Sunday March 18, 2018 @06:03AM
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Are we really trying to project Donald Trump onto Marcus Aurelius?
This is a post from 2009. Any analogies to Trump are being done by you.