Will America Collapse Like the Roman Empire?

[bert]

Wrong......

We make transformers in both Roanoke and Bland Virginia

[jjotto]

Power transformers are indeed made in large numbers in the USA by prestigious companies.

[Sirius Lee]

It is too bad that America may not last over 1000 years like the Babylonian or Roman Empires.

Television and mass media speeds everything up. In the future, every nation will have 15 minutes of empire.

[Jim Noble]

Will America Collapse Like the Roman Empire?

Of course.

The only question is, Sulla or Pinochet or Suharto.

We have WAY more rivers than Indonesia.

[Wildbill22]

I honestly don’t know, but could it be the big ones they were referring to? I guess the average is decades old.

[Wildbill22]

This is interesting;
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/Large%20Power%20Transformer%20Study%20-%20June%202012_0.pdf

[bert]

Those sites both make big transformers

[Sawdring]

Hadrian was also a homosexual.

[ez]

No America will collapse like the Weimar Republic.

[Sawdring]

You are forgetting the Byzantine Empire when you say no high civilization existed after the Roman Empire. This empire lasted until about 1450 when the Ottomans conquered Constantinople.

[MinorityRepublican]

Technological change hastens the collapse of American Hegemony? I think that’s a huge factor here.

[muawiyah]

"then it fragmented for good" ~ and whatever they were doing in the Eastern Empire, that was their business from then on. Took Provence, Gaul, Spain, etc. an awful long time to recover and then only in our own time did they figure out any sort of political unity.

Tellingly, it involves mostly standards ~ which is what Rome was all about as well.

[muawiyah]

The Roman system discovered a serious imperfection as it moved East. Too many slaves can destroy employment in the homeland.

Therefore it was necessary to provide welfare on an unprecedented scale ~ hence, bread.

[mdmathis6]

Instantaneous communications with media spin and attempts by progressives to homogenize cultures(while exploiting differences at the same time) and to deemphasize our national heritage is the accelerant.