Right.
Sure.
Benjamin Franklin, the first American scientist, wasn't a genius.
Thomas Jefferson, he wasn't a genius.
The Constitution, it wasn't the product of James Madison, genius.
The only genius in America was clearly Wile E. Coyote, and he was In Genius.
Greece....destroyed itself in a series of wars, culminating in the Peloponnesian War that bankrupted the Athenian Empire and spelled the end of the Golden Age. It was all downhill for Greece from there.
Rome. They were good at building bridges and roads and aqueducts. Failed to keep up with the times. Technology basically stagnated under the Romans. Their "genius" lay in the process of continuous expansion and raiding to keep the capital cities economy supported. That kind of mercantilism broke the First British Empire. Geniuses broke that one up.
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It's an opinion forum, so all are entitled no matter how goofy.
Repeating Franklin, Jefferson and Madison we wise and honorable Men who birthed us.
Greece and Rome endured for 12 centuries creating Western Civilization along the way.
In case you haven't noticed, nothing of this world, NOTHING, is eternal.
Technology did not exist in Ancient times and the Great War destroyed the British Empire.
Later, the Medieval Scholastics told us;
"Man sees as far as he does because he is able to climb the sides and perch on the
massive shoulders of the Ancients, the wisest ever created by the Almighty." whose unsurpassed achievements in Art, Architecture, Literature, Science, among dozens of disciplines, fill the Britannica.
In the mid-18th century, England embarked on its great Empire Creation venture.
By the end of Victoria's Reign, the Union-Jack was unfurled over some 55% of the World,
an astonishing achievement.
Edward Gibbon, in his magisterial "Decline and Fall of Rome", identified the cause
and effect that permitted Rome to ascend the pinnacle and then lose sight of its
purpose and vision. It was a road map for the English ruling Class.
