Would the world be a better place if the Roman Empire never fell?

>>3255614
If rome was here today it would be Italian China. Does that sound good to you?

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>>3255614
>1,541 years later, Europeans STILL haven't gotten over it

>Roman Empire never fell
Impossible. Not to mention, modern west wouldn't exist if the RE hadn't collapsed.

>>3255614
Would you think that liberalism or marxism will still develop even if you lived through the roman empire in the 18th century?

>>3255623
How?

>>3255614
It was better that it collapsed. It was stagnant and a roadblock to technological progress.

>>3255614
I always wondered what a modern Roman Empire would look like.

Like, China is an ancient civilization and (disregarding the recent flirtation with communism) they've more or less still maintained the ancient schools of thought like Confucianism.

What would the Roman equivalent be like? Would modern-day Rome, after two millennia of philosophical and societal evolution, be most akin to fascism? Libertarianism? Theocratic (cesaropapist) dictatorship?

Tl;dr: What would be the most likely prevailing philosophy/outlook in a Roman Empire that survived to modernity?

>>3255668
Well, stoic is somewhat dominant in ancient rome so stoicism would be a candidate in the daily lives of people inside the modern Rome, and Rome will be Christian

By Supporting Pan-European nationalism. New Rome will consist of Europe, North-America, and Australia/New-Zealand, behold her might

>>3255614
Rome needed to fall, Byzantium did not.

>>3255633
*564

>>3255701

Buh-zantium was much more irrelevant and pathetic than the west when it fell, literally nothing changed except the Turks got to wewuz for a while.

If the west had continued, if only as a unified Italy, it would ha preserved a gigantic amount of knowledge and institutions that would have skipped ahead most of the early medieval clusterfucks. Imagine if the way to build aqueducts and roads and bridges hadnt been forgotten, and law had been codified and exported, and surgery and medicine was still taught, and this Italy churned out all these trained engineers, lawyers and doctors and sending them everywhere much like how all this knowledge returned after 1453. It would have had a massive impact in the development of Europe.

>>3255614

European Union turned into nation state