10-07-2020, 08:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-07-2020, 01:23 PM by Warren Dew.)
(10-02-2020, 01:38 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 02-Oct-2020 World View: Rise and fall of empires
Getting back to the original subject, what I call the "Western
Civilization Empire," starting from ancient Athens and Crete, has
succeeded because it's based on the core principle of Democracy. It
has spawned sub-empires over the centuries, but in one form or another
this empire will continue to lead the world, because only Democracy is
capable of governing empires.
The problem with this theory is that Eastern civilization was more advanced from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance. Democracy is really only an advantage in the gunpowder age, when you win wars with large numbers of minimally trained troops that you only trust because they have a stake in your government.
That's going to change in the next century or so as war shifts to nuclear weapons.
