Yessir, I do see certain parallels.
An overamped "crisis" which was really no such thing prompting over-printing of paper money, not backed by hard assets.
Check.
Inept "administrators" falling one after another. People who mismanage "crises" mismanaging.
Check.
The only thing lacking is a barbarian invasion, which place is probably well filled by incessant civil wars. Civil unrest is civil unrest, no matter the source.
it is the recipe for that fall of all empires, the current one included.
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An overamped "crisis" which was really no such thing prompting over-printing of paper money, not backed by hard assets.
Check.
Inept "administrators" falling one after another. People who mismanage "crises" mismanaging.
Check.
The only thing lacking is a barbarian invasion, which place is probably well filled by incessant civil wars. Civil unrest is civil unrest, no matter the source.
it is the recipe for that fall of all empires, the current one included.
,
Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’