10-18-2012, 06:17 AM
Well, if the US is anything like Rome then it has many more centuries of lording over the rest of us. As I see it, there is little chance of mass invasions in the future but a real danger of two types of destructions that could bring the US and most everyone else down. The first would be a war in which weapons of mass destruction would be amply used, whether nuclear or biological, and the other is a socio-economic degeneration that also looks all the more possible in which it will mostly be our civilization that will be destroyed rather than those who rule us. Philip Dick's novels look to better describe the future than ever before...