HANSON: The U.S. is coasting on the fumes of past greatness, following the Roman road to ruins
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The Washington Times
By A.D. 200, the Roman republic was a distant memory. Few citizens of the global Roman Empire even knew of their illustrious ancestors such as Scipio or Cicero. Millions no longer spoke Latin. Italian emperors were rare. There were no national elections.
Yet Rome endured as a global power for three more centuries. What held it together?
A stubborn common popular culture and the prosperity of Mediterranean-wide standardization kept things going. The Egyptian, the Numidian, the Iberian and the Greek assumed that everything from Roman clay lamps and glass to good roads and plentiful grain were available to millions throughout the Mediterranean.
As long as the sea was free of pirates, thieves cleared from the roads, and merchants allowed to profit, few cared whether the lawless Caracalla or the unhinged Elagabalus was emperor in distant Rome.
Something likewise both depressing and encouraging is happening to the United States. Few Americans seem to worry that our leaders have lied to or misled Congress and the American people without consequences.
Most young people cannot distinguish the First Amendment from the Fourth Amendment — and do not worry that they cannot. Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln are mere names of grammar schools but otherwise unidentifiable to most.
Separatism is thought to bring dividends. In California, universities conduct separate graduation ceremonies predicated on race — sometimes difficult given the increasingly mixed ancestry of Americans.
As in Rome, there is a vast disconnect between elites and the common people. Almost half of Americans receive some sort of public assistance, and half pay no federal income tax. About one-seventh of Americans are on food stamps.
Yet housing prices in elite enclaves — Manhattan, Cambridge, Santa Monica, Palo Alto — are soaring. The wealthy like to cocoon themselves in Roman-like villas, safe from the real-life ramifications of their own utopian ideology. . . .
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/28/coasting-on-the-fumes-of-past-greatness/#ixzz2Xi37rU1e
"Officially, America celebrates diversity; privately, America is fragmenting into racial, political and ideological camps."
So true. Neocons and libertarians can write beautifully about painfully true realities, and yet always leaving out or only briefly touching upon the core problem. Rome, as well and Egypt and Greece, fell when its founding genetic stock was assimilated away, even if it took a couple of hundred years or so of their pathetically teetering along before the end finally came. This process is now taking place in all Western 'Celebrate Diversity!' nations.
Although the next big evil mass amnesty will mean signing America's demographic death certificate as a Western nation, invasion and vastly differential birthrates have already locked into place our doom, even if European Americans were to double their current birthrate.
There will eventually need to be a one or more white ethno-states or the West will be gone as much as the people of Easter Island are now just so many stone heads facing out to sea, no doubt to be studied by archaeologists and historians from future advanced nations of coherent peoples and cultures, such as Japan or China.
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