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  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    a nation state in the post-apocalypse resembling Rome

    The Roman Empire existed for 1400 years (longer, if you toss in the Eastern Empire) and at every point people bemoaned the looming apocalypse.

    Yet Rome's corruption, collapse, and dismembering did not bring about the End of Days. Neither did it spell the end of the city that bares its name. Nor the idea of Rome - a civilization spanning trade empire, built on the slave labor of vassal states - which echoed into the colonial era and the modern neoliberal one.

    Rome's demise has been greatly exaggerated.