by Debs is dead
lifted from a comment
As the shape and efforts of the amerikan empire and it’s army come
to resemble that of the Roman Empire each day; one wonders where they
will move to now that the continental US is becoming less salubrious,
less inviting for them.
A very good argument can be put up to support the contention that
this empire has moved once already – from england when the ‘messiness’
of WW2 caused the imperialists to lose control of england’s body
politic. We may consider the likes of Harold Wilson‘s
blood to be a very pale red indeed but there is no doubt it was
sufficiently magenta to prevent england from being the administrative
and oppression HQ for the world’s largest empire. Which is when
responsibility for that empire was quietly handballed across to
amerika. . .
As some may know Rome’s burgeoning population, which caused people
of non Roman pedigree to be in positions of control, combined with the
far flung subject peoples’ opprobium towards Rome, Italy – persuaded
that empire’s leaders (emperor, generals, and finances – but not the
tax collectors, never the tax collectors) to be moved from Rome to
Constantinople or as it was christened at the time, Nova Roma ("New
Rome"), today known as Istanbul.
Eventually those ‘back home’ in increasingly impoverished and
frequently ‘sacked’ Rome Italy, separated from the Roman Empire, and
moved HQ to Milan, although there were occasional re-unifications. The
‘Western Roman Empire" existed in name only for much of the time it
existed and didn’t exist at all for most of the time. Constantinople
was where the action was for any up and coming mainchancer.
It was the Eastern empire, renamed Byzantium by 19th century
historians which maintained an unbroken succession of emperors dating
back to Augustus Caesar (Julie didn’t quite qualify as an emperor –
copped the knife in the back before he could). The people of Byzantium
called themselves ‘roman’ and retained the customs of Rome. Needless to
say Byzantium was also where the money was.
So as amerikans become poorer and less somnolent, as those who have
had their families destroyed by the empire’s excesses seek to visit a
little vengeance upon the population they believe responsible, the
notion of shifting off to a home away from home will become attractive.
The new capital will be somewhat smaller and easier to ‘sanitise’,
to keep the non-elites at arm’s length, like Constantinople it will
probably be closer to the action, so as to make it appear
‘strategically better’ and an advance toward the action rather than a
retreat away from the hoi polloi.
There is a terrible synergy about Jerusalem. If we (the humans)
fail, and the amerikan empire is still extant, will it be headquartered
in Israel by 2050?
