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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4237858, member: 93416&quot;]Nope, just plain accurate I would fear.&nbsp; Though not particular to the US.</p><p><br /></p><p>Returning to the sort of ideas about the fall of Rome from previous generations, (Gibbon, Toynbee....) there is one matter we should see that they could not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since probably Aurelian, and surely Constantine, fiscal policy was driven by monetary manipulation.&nbsp; Ring any bells?&nbsp; Gibbon would not see that because he did not have access to the Egyptian Papyri of the 4th century.&nbsp; Modern numismatists do not much see it - but why?&nbsp; Seems maybe like they do not want to see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But Gibbon maybe saw other things more clearly than us.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wiki suggests that &quot;virtue signalling&quot; was a concept created in around 2015. Aside from some fellow now rambling about Darwin, (taking us up a blind alley it seems to me).</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the fall of Rome, (and the following thousand year Dark Age), Gibbon perceptively pointed to a rise in “spiritual pride”…………..</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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