Reply #11: Dark times, funny [View All]

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I was looking at this earlier:

American empire in decline

In her new book Dark Age Ahead, writer and thinker Jane Jacobs makes an uneven but intriguing attempt to answer some of these questions, describing a dangerous precipice at which North America currently stands. Jacobs says that the fall of every empire, from the Romans to the Chinese, is hastened by "internal rot in the form of fatal cultural turnings.

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/05/Columns/American_empire_in_de.shtml