{"id":33824,"date":"2018-04-28T09:14:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T14:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33824"},"modified":"2018-04-28T09:14:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T14:14:04","slug":"the-end-of-our-empire-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33824","title":{"rendered":"The End Of Our Empire Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The End Of Our Empire Approaches<\/a><\/h3>\n
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History is clear on where we’re headed<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Do you have the nagging sense that our empire is in decline?<\/p>\n

If so, don’t be embarrassed\u00a0by it. Historically speaking, we\u2019re in very good company.\u00a0 Far larger and longer-lived empires than ours have come and gone over the millennia.<\/p>\n

This was hit home for me on a recent trip. I scored a major “dad win” by taking my youngest daughter, Grace, to England for her 18th<\/sup> birthday (we live in Massachusetts, USA).<\/p>\n

All on her own, Grace developed an abiding love of mythology at a very young age: Greek, Roman, Norse, Native American, Aztec\u2026you name it.\u00a0 She\u2019s read the Iliad four times, a different version each time, as each has the biases of the translator subtly woven throughout.<\/p>\n

Naturally, her dream mini-vacation involved going to the British Museum where the Rosetta stone lies, along with Viking horde treasures and every possible Roman, Greek and Egyptian artifact one could hope to see.<\/p>\n

The British empire came of age at the perfect time to muscle in and \u201cretrieve\u201d the cultural treasures of many different countries. Such are the spoils of empire.<\/p>\n

Who knows, perhaps one day we\u2019ll see sliced off segments of the Palace of Westminster on display in Cairo\u2019s main square.\u00a0 History ebbs and it flows.\u00a0 Back and forth.\u00a0 Victors and losers swapping places over and over again.<\/p>\n

If the British Museum reveals anything it\u2019s just that.\u00a0 The long sweep of human history shows us that the more things change, the more things stay the same.<\/p>\n

The treasures on display at the British Museum also show us that every race and culture has revered beauty<\/em>.\u00a0 The most intricate and delicate and objectively beautiful jewelry and adornments were worn by kings and queens, priestesses, nobles, and warlords alike.<\/p>\n

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The End Of Our Empire Approaches History is clear on where we’re headed Do you have the nagging sense that our empire is in decline? If so, don’t be embarrassed\u00a0by it. Historically speaking, we\u2019re in very good company.\u00a0 Far larger and longer-lived empires than ours have come and gone over the millennia. This was hit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[19967,3596,150,195,259,374,2500,10956,536,2218,19968],"class_list":["post-33824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-british-museum","tag-chris-martenson","tag-collapse","tag-debt","tag-empire","tag-gold","tag-history","tag-imperial-collapse","tag-money","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-sutton-hoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33825,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824\/revisions\/33825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}