One of my favorite time periods in history is the Roman Empire. I read Orson Scott Card's Empire a while ago, which I found quite fascinating and I definitely recommend it. Well, anyways, I constantly think about the collapse of the Roman Empire. What were the conditions surrounding it? How do those conditions compare to current America? Card actually asserted (whether it was his opinion or not, I don't know) that the current state of America is more correlated to the transition between the Roman Republic to the Empire. I guess no matter how many parallels we can make to any of them, I still worry about the current state of America. And I wonder if America even notices or cares.
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