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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: MichaelNJMichaelNJ Date: Mar 24, 2008 10:58
On Mar 24, 11:42 am, "Shrikeback" hotmail.com> wrote:> "Sean" up_over.org.au> wrote in message
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> news:47e715b2$0$6277$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
>>> Cullen Murphy was on the Colbert Report last week [ June 2007 ] to discuss
>> his book, Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America.
>> Murphy is concerned that if every government function becomes privatized
>> that our country will be entirely up for sale
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> You know, I've been hearing the crap about Modern
> Romans since I was a wee lad, generally from fundies,
> who pointed to the proliferation of fags, the drop in
> the birth rate, and Allah knows what else to support
> their thesis. Any use of the Roman Empire to compare
> with modern America now has all the impact of a
> neutrino.
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>> Video except
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> This is what I saw there:
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> Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.
Every major empire in the west (since the Roman empire) has been
compared to the Roman empire. While there are certainly valuable
lessons to be learned (from what the Roman Empire did both right and
wrong), I don't necessarily assign any special relevance to the
comparison.
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