Empires, at their zenith, present themselves to the world in grand fashion as seen in the Thomas Cole painting depicting why this is so but this illusion doesn't last forever ...
With this in mind, channel 2021 and the state of America with yet another Cole work.
The inevitable decline starts with inequality and corruption, the two headed construct
that leads every empire to decay without question.
To whit ...
And this
Read Rebecca Gordon's detailed piece titled The Rubble of Empire in its entirety as it delineates why the US empire is crumbling as we speak.
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