Sigh. I suppose Manhatten and Brooklyn will be excavated some day too.
And a latter day Gibbons will write a book entitled The Decline and Fall of the American Republic and date it from 2008 and the Obama Presidency.
The Roman Republic “fell” with Julius Caesar but the Empire lived on for 4 centuries or so. I have a peeve with those who insist on comparing the present situation in the USofA with Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire. It is more like the end of the Republic and we don’t know yet if America will become Empire. One difference will be that the Romans did not lose a lot of day-to-day freedom. Our own transition to Empire is likely to be to a bureaucratic totalitarianism. We are already seeing economic Caesarism grabbing hold in great fistfuls with Paulson’s accession to Chancelorship.
“Sigh. I suppose Manhatten and Brooklyn will be excavated some day too.”
I’m curious to see how Manhattan is recorded in the geologic record 100 million years from now.
I hope God lets me live long enough to see it.