Monday, July 01, 2013

"Few citizens of the global Roman Empire even knew of their illustrious ancestors like Scipio or Cicero. Millions no longer spoke Latin. Italian emperors were a rarity. There were no national elections. Yet Rome endured as a global power for three more centuries. What held it together?”

Victor Davis Hanson on America today

5 comments:

Always On Watch said...

Prophecy?

Anonymous said...

Let me channel a progressive libtard for a moment,

"What's his point"

Here's another

The United states becoming just another nation among nations without special power or strengths is a feature not a bug.

Anonymous said...

Quoting Hansen (albeit out of context)
"As long as the sea was free of pirates, thieves were cleared from the roads,..."
There's the rub which is one of the primary points made by Emmet Scott's "Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited", based on the theory of 1920s Belgian historian Henri Pirenne .

"the ancient classical civilization, which Rome had established throughout Europe and the Mediterranean world, was not destroyed by the Barbarians who invaded the western provinces in the fifth century, it was destroyed by the Arabs, whose conquest of the Middle East and North Africa terminated Roman civilization in those regions and cut off Europe from any further trading and cultural contact with the East. According to Pirenne, it was only in the mid-seventh century that the characteristic features of classical life disappeared from Europe, after which time the continent began to develop its own distinctive and somewhat primitive medieval culture."

Prophetic, indeed.

Anonymous said...

If I'm not mistaken, I recently heard Tommy Robinson mention in a videotaped interview that ports are controlled by Muslim interests in England. This wouldn't surprise given the attempt in 2006 w/Dubai's (UAE) 3card monty efforts to purchase control of 6 major US seaports.

Unknown said...

Great post Epa.