Why did Rome and Byzantium fall apart after centuries of success?
What causes civilizations to collapse, from a dysfunctional 4th-century-B.C. Athens to contemporary bankrupt Greece?
The answer is usually not enemies at the gates,
but the pathologies inside them.
What ruins societies is well known: too much consumption and
not enough production, a debased currency and endemic corruption.
Americans currently deal with all those symptoms. But two more fundamental causes for decline are even more frightening: an unwillingness to pay taxes and the end of the rule of law...
The answer is usually not enemies at the gates,
but the pathologies inside them.
What ruins societies is well known: too much consumption and
not enough production, a debased currency and endemic corruption.
Americans currently deal with all those symptoms. But two more fundamental causes for decline are even more frightening: an unwillingness to pay taxes and the end of the rule of law...