When Rome fell, it fell *hard*. Most empires do the same (British Empire is one of the very few exceptions), and none of them had nukes. Technology changes. Human nature doesn't.https://twitter.com/csubagio/status/1002325580392456193 …
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
Rome fell hard in retrospect, but the people living then didn’t necessarily notice anything; more like a slow fade. Temporal distance makes things seem more sudden. (Also: USSR was fairly dramatic + had nukes?)
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En réponse à @atmz @ChrisWarcraft
Also https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/early-middle-ages/id519131977 … has some interesting lectures around the fall of Rome which may be relevant today
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En réponse à @atmz @ChrisWarcraft
Sooo my Twitter app didn’t load any replies so I thought nobody else had chimed in here; sorry about my redundant “well, actually”
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En réponse à @atmz
No worries :) And I would counter with the USSR not being what we would consider a true empire - they had vast geopolitical influence, but were far more concerned with countering American expansion/continuing their own local expansion.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
Fair; I think there’s an interesting tangent here about whether the length of an empire affects the impact of its collapse —feels like the relative newness of the USSR made its collapse more recoverable.
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Yeah, I think that's a salient point. There's not enough time for institutions to be built up into "that's how it's always been" structures, and the concomitant devotion to such.
Le chargement semble prendre du temps.
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