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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2837834, member: 10461&quot;]There are indeed many interesting echoes and parallels between US history and that of the Roman Empire.&nbsp; Don&#039;t read too much into them, however.&nbsp; Could history repeat itself?&nbsp; Sure, in a few limited ways, maybe.&nbsp; But never in an exact replay.&nbsp; And sure, all great civilizations decline and fall, but more often they just evolve into something else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember, the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (and earlier, that of the preceding Roman Republic) took <i>centuries</i> to play out.&nbsp; And it basically survived for nearly another thousand years after that, in a slightly different form (the Byzantine Empire).</p><p><br /></p><p>And while these are uncertain times of social strife and division and economic insecurity, don&#039;t forget that we have survived the recent Great Recession and went through worse social unrest during the Nixon/Vietnam era; never mind the World Wars and Great Depression and Civil War before that.</p><p><br /></p><p>America will survive and at least some future Americans will thrive.&nbsp; Does that mean there won&#039;t be calamities and wars and changes in government and society?&nbsp; Of course it doesn&#039;t.&nbsp; Change is inevitable.&nbsp; Some of that change will be difficult; even catastrophic for some groups and places.&nbsp; Other groups and places will be largely unaffected.</p><p><br /></p><p>My advice?&nbsp; Live in the present, enjoy traveling into the past with your coins, and take the future as it comes; a day at a time, without getting overly worried about other people&#039;s predictions of doom and gloom.</p><p><br /></p><p>Worry about doomsday when it arrives.&nbsp; Until then, live, collect, and be merry.&nbsp; If you want to stockpile bullion or whatever, do it.&nbsp; More power to you.&nbsp; There are ways of combining bullion-stacking with collecting that can be fun.</p><p><br /></p><p>But have fun, and don&#039;t worry about the sky falling.&nbsp; Until it does.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s my philosophy, anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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