Waiting for the barbarians [1]
A once-great empire, Rome fell into catastrophic cultural and economic decline. Morris Berman on chilling parallels with modern America
When I wrote my recent book, The Twilight of American Culture, my focus was on what might be called "inner" barbarism, the structural factors endemic to American society that were, I believed, bringing about its disintegration.
Rome fell to the barbarians because the Romans were self-absorbed and lost the will to resist. Chilling parallels indeed. Here is an example of The People petitioning the Government to open the gates:
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