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[sugarblue_sunny]

Ages ago, I remember reading or seeing something involving a comparison of the fall of Rome to modern American society and it's potential future, in the style of Jared Diamond's Collapse. I don't remember anything else about it, but I've been trying to find it or some similar work since then. Please let me know if you have any information about

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[ragnarok20]

America won't be like Rome Until we have the Running Man.

[ragnarok20]

Also, there is some on that kind of comparison which can be found here; 207-212

[sparker959]

I would say ossama bin ladin is our running man. A spectacle of a grand scale that will never end.

[buboniclou]

You may have this book in mind:
http://www.amazon.com/Are-We-Rome-Empire-America/dp/0618742220
I think I remember seeing excerpts of it in a magazine when it was first published.

[sugarblue_sunny]

I think that's exactly it! Thank you so much!

[buboniclou]

Happy to help!

[kenosis]

I think it's patently obvious America is going to fall like Rome did: it's the treacherous Turks! They're already trying to rename Washington DC!