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The Fate of Empires

Started by scuzzy, September 15, 2025, 07:45:27 PM

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scuzzy

September 15, 2025, 07:45:27 PM
I know we have a lot of history buffs here so I thought I'd post this short book, 23 pages, called the Fate of Empires. I'd read bits and pieces of this previously but never the whole thing. Funny how the lives of most empires are about 250 years. And what's really funny is how each one crashes in an identical manner.

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H62YWAfOf94

PDF attached too.
My desire to be well informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.

9mm4545

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September 15, 2025, 09:45:38 PM
Outstanding!
The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would be utterly inadequate to the wants of a different nation.  Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter in the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government. - Francis Grund 1837

gunjunkie

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September 17, 2025, 08:49:27 AM
Great stuff!
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom! Thomas Jefferson

We shall pass this way on earth but once, if there is a kindness we can show, or act we can do, let us do it now,for we will never pass this way again.
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ShooterMagoo

#3
September 17, 2025, 11:32:29 AM
Still getting through this as I have time here and there, but so far it's a great read.

wooldl

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October 08, 2025, 05:16:25 PM
I've shared this book with many people over the years and it always amazes me how folks think 'it cannot happen here'. Well it sure can, and we're following the blueprint.
"Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your Freedom! " - John Adams

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Big John

#5
October 08, 2025, 10:47:09 PM
I enjoyed reading that. I have my theories on why the behavior is as it is, but I believe that explaining them would break more house rules than it would keep, so I must not do so.

scuzzy

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October 09, 2025, 10:49:04 AM
Quote from: Big John on October 08, 2025, 10:47:09 PMI enjoyed reading that. I have my theories on why the behavior is as it is, but I believe that explaining them would break more house rules than it would keep, so I must not do so.
lol - same here. A deeper dive into the history of two of the empires proved very interesting. I've yet to look into the other empires mentioned in the book though.
My desire to be well informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.
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