now it’s the U.S. empire that will decline over some centuries

“Imperial overstretch” they call it. The big, dominant empires are so successful for a while. After years of expansion and exploitation they get fabulously rich, bloated, irresponsible, oblivious.

With the egregious wealth, naturally people from all over the place try to get in and partake. They flooded into Rome from the periphery, into England, into the U.S.

Otherness, other ways, other thinking. The folk of the imperium try to resist. They try to suppress Otherness, suppress critique, suppress the tide of history.

As the tide of history indicates decline they try to “Get Great Again.”

The Glory That Was Rome. It peaked around 200 C.E. and then declined over a period of about three hundred years.

That’s what we face.