Imagine a Roman Empire that is eternal.

pic is in china though

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>>3349970
>Imagine a Roman Empire that is eternal.
No need to imagine, there is one in Africa

>>3349970
Why?

>>3350008
I think that OP was trying to draw a comparison between Imperial Rome and the series of Chinese empires that sprang up throughout the centuries and that lasted for nearly 2000 years.
What if the Roman Empire had lived on up until 1912?

>>3350082

It would not be the Rome we know. Remember, cities are blenders for certain traits. A hardworking and stoic population can be blended with people that put a high value on time. In doing so, wrt the traits that defined the population of republic, original behaviors and inclinations are changed into ones that would have never founded a republic but which are adapted to taking advantage of the pool of plunder and surplus that Rome possessed.

Let's use an example of sports teams. Personally, I don't get it. Each team is a constant shuffle of players. The Red Sox now aren't the Red Sox of yesteryear. So why are you loyal to a team that has a different composition of abilities each year, let alone amongst decades?

People fail to realize that institutions are only as good as the people who run them. Someone who has a high time-preference is going to blow money away because they're focused on pleasure now. Not the same traits of the population which rose Rome to a republic.

>>3352261
CONT.

In short, the rise and fall of (past) empires seem to be cyclic. Because a population that builds the capital of the city turns into a population that is out competed by a population which is able to game the various institutions of the capital.

>>3349970
>imagine a series of horsenigger empires that call themselves rome
One Ottoroach empire was enough imo

>>3352289
That's a very interesting way of putting it anon, you've given me some thought food.

there is its called the Catholic church

>>3349970
The Roman Catholic Church

>>3349970
Imagine having a really cool and probably one of the longest histories and cultures in the world and...destroying it like an autist trolling a minecraft server.