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[rm]

We keep talking about the fall of Rome, but maybe Rome isn't the U.S., but New York City.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/nyregion/04york.html

"The election seemed to reverse the perspective of the famous Saul Steinberg cartoon, with much of the land mass of America now in the foreground and New York a tiny, distant and irrelevant dot."

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[tommx.livejournal.com]

well, considering that rome was conquered by an illiterate war mongering people who despised the romans for being, among other things, elitist, i'd say that's pretty accurate.

*sigh*