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Originally Posted by Mikee1
When you get a minute or three, google and read the five stages of a society. You may be surprised.
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Some years back I read something posited by an historian, to the effect that great nations do not die from forces from without, but from rot from within. The person divided the process into stages; something like 114 "stages" all told that mark the dying process of great nations. It reflected Rome almost to a "T". And America is much farther along that particular continuum than I think most Americans realize.
"Bread and circuses" don't necessarily have to occur in a colosseum.