View Single Post
Old 06-15-2010, 08:13 AM   #14 (permalink)
roachboy
 
roachboy's Avatar
 
Super Moderator
Location: essex ma
empires are expensive. they've tended to bankrupt the imperial power. it's happened again and again.

personally i don't think the collapse of empire is a bad thing. i don't see it as a cataclysm. more a gradual slide away from hegemony, a gradual slide out of the illusion that power is transparent. a gradual becoming-austria. so not like rome---no sacking by the barbarians. more like the hapsburgs.
__________________
a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite
roachboy is offline  
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73