From: buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk   
      
   On 11/27/2018 3:11 PM, ggggg9271@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 9:40:21 PM UTC-10, Martin Edwards wrote:   
   >> On 11/27/2018 3:47 AM, Oh so rich & successful JTEM wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Wow, this is the very first time anyone in the   
   >>> history of the modern world has ever compared   
   >>> their contemporary culture with that of Rome.   
   >>>   
   >>>       ...I feel special for having lived to see   
   >>> it!   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Your sarcasm is justified, but there is a point here.  Yesterday a news   
   >> channel reported that Many Britons are bored with Brexit.  Maybe that is   
   >> why the Western Empire finally fell: people were bored.   
   >   
   > When the citizens of a country lose their sense of destiny, then isn't that   
   country in decline?   
   >   
   The specific problem here is that many still have the sense of destiny   
   of the 1950s, when we were still fooling ourselves that we were a great   
   power.  Even now, some people still chunter about beating the Germans in   
   two world wars.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)