Some thoughts based on recent readings and current events.
Collapse of an empire:
- highly bureaucratic; highly regulated;
- European Unionization of the kingdom
- disruption of trading patterns
- failure to address imbalance of trade
- loss of border integrity
- breakdown of social order; social disorder
- petty crime; illicit drug use
- failure of immigrants to assimilate one's new country
- multilingual
- dress
- religion
- severe maldistribution of wealth;
- egomaniacal leaders; grandiose delusional leaders;
- mega-projects with little social benefit or likelihood of success
- manned voyages to Mars; manned voyages beyond the earth's moon
- bullet trains
- loss of a vibrant two-party political system
- the Californication of US politics
- bad strategic decisions; losing strategic advantages for no gain
- selling the Panama Canal to to Panama for one dollar
- misguided military spending
- $5-million missiles to take out $5,000 drones
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