Interesting post!
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Macsporan', ' ')If this history repeats we can expect the US government/corporate/military/industrial/congressional complext to sit on the post PO world like a great stone idol and bleed us all dry before it's inevitable collapse.
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by MacG » Wed 13 Jul 2005, 05:41:54
Yeps. I think you are completely right here. This is how the government-memeplex work.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Macsporan', 'T')hen and only then will the traumatised survivors able to start a new kind of life.
There are quite some indications that quite a lot of people in the provinces learned how to avoid roman taxes, and that this was a contributing factor to the fall.
I read Machiavelli's "The Prince" a couple of years ago. Very interesting. It was written in the late 1400's, and the poor fellow belived that the Roman empire still existed! He wrote "The Prince" as a manual for someone to come and end all the infighting between the city states of the former empire.
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by Doly » Wed 13 Jul 2005, 05:47:56
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')I read Machiavelli's "The Prince" a couple of years ago. Very interesting. It was written in the late 1400's, and the poor fellow belived that the Roman empire still existed!
')I read Machiavelli's "The Prince" a couple of years ago. Very interesting. It was written in the late 1400's, and the poor fellow belived that the Roman empire still existed!
Good point. Maybe people will still believe the USA still exists in 500 years time... in spite of all evidence to the contrary.
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by Macsporan » Wed 13 Jul 2005, 06:35:36
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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here are quite some indications that quite a lot of people in the provinces learned how to avoid roman taxes, and that this was a contributing factor to the fall.
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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here are quite some indications that quite a lot of people in the provinces learned how to avoid roman taxes, and that this was a contributing factor to the fall.
Yes, in the West the super wealthy were able to avoid taxes and take under their protection those willing to become their serfs who willingly exchanged their "freedom" and "citizenship" that had become intolerably burdensome.
I expect something like this will happen PO.
Machiavelli is a scary guy. He preached essentially exemption from moral laws for politicians and set us on a slippery slope indeed.
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