We're quite happy with retired centurions who have taken up this new habit of taking a cup of wine and coming over to listen to us, because they're puzzled and pleased that we talk about the 21st century. We assure them that all their work and their risk and the loss of their comrades and allegiance are retired with them.
All of that comes to great success twenty centuries from now, with the American Empire built on the Roman foundations. Their loyalty, their service, their model will be the strength of the United States of America in the 21st century.
At the same time, we look to our life in the 1st century for analogies or models of what we're seeing in the American empire, with the hypothesis that empires repeat themes.
This hypothesis, as a clever man once said, doesn't repeat. It rhymes. Well, there's a rhyme now in the American Empire that is very familiar to us—and has risk.
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