I Wonder How Long America Has
Mark Lewis
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." (Benjamin Franklin)
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government…a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.” (Historian Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler, c. 250 years ago)
It will be interesting to see, 500 years from now, how the geography now occupied by the United States will be governed. Will there even be a place called the United States of America? There may be. Many nations disappear; some survive, but mutate into something else. None of them remains what they originally were.
For example, there are no longer any Babylonians or Assyrians on earth today, at least not by that name. Their descendants exist, but no nation/empire called “Babylon” or “Assyria.” Those empires are extinct.
However, many nations and empires evolve over time into something else. The ancient Persian Empire no longer survives, but modern Iran is its descendant. Iran is certainly different from the ancient Persian domain.
England has been around for a long time. Once it became a “nation,” it had an autocratic king, then it morphed into an empire with a prime minister, and now England is…whatever England is now. The same can be said for France, which also doesn’t resemble its early history.
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