... can only bear a small number of kids, want a more sustainable system to make sure each kid she bears has a decent chance. Besides the Fall of Rome, there is the Byzantine model of shedding unprofitable provinces to anarchy and barbarism while redirecting critical resources to the great power centers. Where life goes on pretty much like it always has. So- while increasing numbers ...
... bullshit. Moreover, they understand the political system and mass media cannot deal with it. And while we see apocalyptic visions in the postings, we have another model in the Byzantines, who shed unprofitable provinces to barbarism and redirected critical resources to the great power centers, going on like that for centuries. So, as inept and corrupt as the system is,...
... is bullshit. Moreover, they understand the political system and mass media cannot deal with it. And while we see apocalyptic visions in the postings, we have another model in the Byzantines, who shed unprofitable provinces to barbarism and redirected critical resources to the great power centers, going on like that for centuries. So, as inept and corrupt as the system is, the...
... is bullshit. Moreover, they understand the political system and mass media cannot deal with it. And while we see apocalyptic visions in the postings, we have another model in the Byzantines, who shed unprofitable provinces to barbarism and redirected critical resources to the great power centers, going on like that for centuries. So, as inept and corrupt as the system is, the power ...
... ICON format of telling the Gospel and its story didn't originate with the Catholics, they simply borrowed and simplified from the Orthodox Church, which pretty much fell with the collapse of the Byzantine Empire and the invasion of the Muslims who converted most of the citizenry by declaring that if you became Muslim, you didn't have to pay taxes. The Orthodox Church did continue to ...
... it had in Europe between 1500 & 1700. It's also interesting to look at the the end of The Holy Roman Empire and the influences which kept Germany from becoming a state until the 1800's. The Byzantine Empire, which was not white European, managed to carry on for 1,000 years after the fall of the the Roman Empire. You are very good at saying 'Yeah? Well what about this?' over and over ...
...do that. Just ask President Carter. Even promising that it will be for the good of their own kids will not be persuasive. No, what we'll see is what we see already, the Byzantine method of shedding unprofitable provinces to anarchy and barbarism in order to re-direct critical resources to the Great Power centers. http://www.daybrown.org/machveli/machveli.html I put this up last year. ...
...-iterate. One way to global economy can cope is to abandon less profitable provinces to anarchy and revolution, stop shipping oil and redirect the remaining supply to the great power centers. The Byzantines did it for centuries. Not feasible to do it now. So, while the global economy seems to keep going for us, No seems about it. it quit serving those more obscure poor ...
... to re-iterate. One way to global economy can cope is to abandon less profitable provinces to anarchy and revolution, stop shipping oil and redirect the remaining supply to the great power centers. The Byzantines did it for centuries. So, while the global economy seems to keep going for us, it quit serving those more obscure poor regions we dont care about. Which will be fine so long ...
Day Brown <daybrown@daybrown.org> wrote: And while many point to the corruption and then fall of Rome, there is another model in the Byzantine, which endured for nearly another thousand years gradually ceding unprofitable provinces to barbarism and anarchy, and redirecting critical resources to the great power centers. When an area was convinced the Legions would not return, ...
