{"id":67756,"date":"2024-04-30T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67756"},"modified":"2024-04-30T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:12:22","slug":"falling-from-grace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67756","title":{"rendered":"Falling From Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Falling From Grace<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
\"\"<\/div>\n
\n

Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, \u201cEmpires fall from grace with alarming speed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every now and then, you receive a comment that, although it may have been stated casually, has a lasting effect, as it offers uncommon insight. For me, this was one of those and it\u2019s one that I\u2019ve kept handy at my desk since that time, as a reminder.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m from a British family, one that left the UK just as the British Empire was about to begin its decline. They expatriated to the \u201cNew World\u201d to seek promise for the future.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve spent most of my life centred in a British colony \u2013 the Cayman Islands \u2013 I\u2019ve had the opportunity to observe many British contract professionals who left the UK seeking advancement, which they almost invariably find in Cayman. Curiously, though, most returned to the UK after a contract or two, in the belief that the UK would bounce back from its decline, and they wanted to be on board when Britain \u201ccame back.\u201d<\/p>\n

This, of course, never happened. The US replaced the UK as the world\u2019s foremost empire, and although the UK has had its ups and downs over the ensuing decades, it hasn\u2019t returned to its former glory.<\/p>\n

And it never will.<\/p>\n

If we observe the empires of the world that have existed over the millennia, we see a consistent history of collapse\u00a0without renewal<\/em>. Whether we\u2019re looking at the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Spanish Empire, or any other that\u2019s existed at one time, history is remarkably consistent: The decline and fall of any empire never reverses itself; nor does the empire return, once it\u2019s fallen.<\/p>\n

But of what importance is this to us today?<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Falling From Grace Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, \u201cEmpires fall from grace with alarming speed.\u201d Every now and then, you receive a comment that, although it may have been stated casually, has a lasting effect, as it offers uncommon insight. For me, this was one of those and it\u2019s one […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[150,259,10956,9589,6228,11658,827,834],"class_list":["post-67756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-collapse","tag-empire","tag-imperial-collapse","tag-imperial-decline","tag-international-man","tag-jeff-thomas","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67756","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=67756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67757,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67756\/revisions\/67757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}