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Insanity | 4 days ago

True for the empire, not true for the republic (which still took decades but not centuries)

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RGamma|4 days ago

When would you date the beginning of the current fall though? Late 20th/early 21st century? When would you end date it without longer hindsight? (honest question)

Windchaser|4 days ago

Kinda hard to pin down a date.

When I think of the current social and political trends, I'm reminded of Asimov's quote about anti-intellectualism in 1980. Or Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer-prize winning book, "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life", published in *1963*.

These things aren't new. They just wax and wane in power, over time, and recombine in new and interesting ways to yield long-term trends.