Some reasons put forth by notable Historians for the fall of the Roman Empire:
1. The changing character in native population brought about by pressure on porous borders.
2. The creation of an increasingly unwieldy and rigid bureaucracy whose survival is it's first and foremost goal.
3. The despising of the military and avoidance by leading families, meanwhile opening the offices to men to whom its ranks had once been closed.
4. The increasing concentration of the populace into richer and poorer by way of a corrupt tax system.
5. The aggrandization of executive power at the expense of the legislature.
6. Ineffectual legislation put forth with great show.
7. The moral vocation of the man at the top to maintain order at all costs, while growing blind to the dilemmas of ordinary life.
Does any of this sound familiar to anyone else out there?
Are we standing at a point in history now that will be looked back upon and recognized as the end of the American Empire? Is that a bad thing?
Or is it more than just America that is falling? When I think about Myanmar and now a huge earthquake in Western China it makes me wonder how much longer the Earth will tolerate a human presence wreaking havoc.
This world we live in, this country I live in, how does one continue with a quiet mind and a peaceful heart?
1 comment:
Well spoken, and sadly true. Yet you are not the only one who advocates a change. The common spirit behind many thinking people around the world may not be "main stream thought", but it's there. And even a hush can work miracles.
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