10-02-2016, 07:24 PM
(09-23-2016, 10:19 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Chaos is dangerous and destructive. It is not to be treated lightly, and it is to be avoided if at all possible.
Political chaos shows the incompetence and unresponsiveness of political leadership that led to the chaos. As for the speed in which late antiquity met its demise, such a historian as Arnold Toynbee suggested that the Roman Empire that lasted (in Rome and points west) little more than 500 years, the social order was corrupt and ultimately unsustainable even from late Republican times. Imperial Rome survived so long as it did by living off its rich resources.
We have a long way to go before the demise of the USA or its successor. We have too many resources for one bad leader to bring it down.
That's right. Look for it to be brought down or transformed about 350-400 years from now.