Fall of Rome

[Brad DeLong]

>From: Seth Ackerman <SAckerman at FAIR.org>
>To: "'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com'" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: RE: farewell to academe
>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:22:33 -0500
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>	Brad DeLong wrote:
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>>  Of course not. The trope of decline and decadence is an old one. More
>>  than two millennia ago Roman aristocrats complained about the times
>>  and the customs: how shocking it was that children no longer
>>  respected their elders, that everyone was worshipping foreign goods,
>>  and that a slave girl cost more than a sword.
>.
>Yeah, and then Rome fell.
>
>Seth

Not for another 600 years (if you count the end of the Western 
Empire) or another 1600 years (if you count the end of the Eastern 
Empire).

Now I would agree that it is sad when people can't date the fall of 
Rome or the rise of the Han dynasty to within 500 years.

Brad DeLong