(2006-09-08) Fabius Predictions

Among other things, Fabius Maximus predicts the death of the US Constitution. Roman history shows how recognition of these things lags behind the facts. Generations passed before people recognized that the Republic was truly dead. America has violated the initial conditions the founders considered necessary for a republic... We have traded liberty for promises of equality, security, and prosperity. The cost is our Constitution. Everything has a price. The predominate reaction of the Romans to the death of the Republic was resignation, as seen in the popular philosophies of the Empire: Stoicism, Epicureanism, Hedonism, and Christianity... Our Constitution is just an idea, inherited from the founders. We created it, and the failure of the first version just gives us experience to do better with the second.