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Goodbutnotgreat - I actually like to compare the USA to Rome.
You say we are not even near the decadence of Rome... well we have a similiar military, political, and social system. Personally I don't think Rome or the US is or was ever very decadent. We are the most advanced society in the world, so our minor flaws are blown to magnanimous proportions, compared to other countries. We have the highest homicide rates, compared to European countries. But shit, half of the europeans don't even bathe daily. There's a trade off.
Rome was one of the first to use money instead of a barter system. The US perfected the use of "legal tender".
We don't portray violence for entertainment you say? Sure we don't actually kill people in a stadium for entertainment, but what is Football? Simulated violence. Everything on TV is simulated violece, just like the Romans had simulated violence in the coliseum, except people actually died... for entertainment.
We have come to be the number 1 Culture/Country/Society in the world, as Rome was once. Best technology, hygiene, etc.
And we did have slavery once, as the Romans did.
We aren't excatly the same of course, because there's a difference of 2000 years. However, there are so many similarities and comparisons that cannot be dismissed, and I haven't named half of them yet.
The fact is, no country has been as dominant culturally, economically, technologically and militarily in the history of the world since the Roman Empire
You say we are not even near the decadence of Rome... well we have a similiar military, political, and social system. Personally I don't think Rome or the US is or was ever very decadent. We are the most advanced society in the world, so our minor flaws are blown to magnanimous proportions, compared to other countries. We have the highest homicide rates, compared to European countries. But shit, half of the europeans don't even bathe daily. There's a trade off.
Rome was one of the first to use money instead of a barter system. The US perfected the use of "legal tender".
We don't portray violence for entertainment you say? Sure we don't actually kill people in a stadium for entertainment, but what is Football? Simulated violence. Everything on TV is simulated violece, just like the Romans had simulated violence in the coliseum, except people actually died... for entertainment.
We have come to be the number 1 Culture/Country/Society in the world, as Rome was once. Best technology, hygiene, etc.
And we did have slavery once, as the Romans did.
We aren't excatly the same of course, because there's a difference of 2000 years. However, there are so many similarities and comparisons that cannot be dismissed, and I haven't named half of them yet.
The fact is, no country has been as dominant culturally, economically, technologically and militarily in the history of the world since the Roman Empire
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