`The Life Cycles of Empires: Lessons for America Today?`

[LongTermGuy]

`Perceptive historians recognize that great powers go through a cycle of growth, stability, maturity and decline. Where is America in this cycle? Will we learn from the lessons of history?`
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http://www.ucg.org/united-states/life-cycles-empires-lessons-america-today/

[Kathianne]

Rough, some of the lessons cited really don't work for America. For anyone interested I'd suggest checking out the massive series by Will and Ariel Durant, "The Story of Civilization." It's awesome, but will take you years to get through.

[indago]

Brooks Adams, a descendant of the famous Adams family of our revolutionary times, was vacationing in Europe when he received a telegram from his brother, Henry Adams, to come home and help with the preservation of their estate, which was in jeopardy during the great Depression of the 1890's. They managed to salvage their estate, and Brooks, alarmed at how such an occurrence had nearly devastated their fortunes, and realizing that these types of devastations had happened before in history, compiled documents and wrote of these manipulations by the "cosmopolitan financier" of the times. He wrote the book The Law of Civilization and Decay, in which he examined into the history of civilizations, their rise to power, languishing, then decay.


nation. . . . . . . . . . . . .perversions, dilution, outsourcing, corruption
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As perversions, dilution, outsourcing, and corruption grow, the nation descends into decay