/lit/ - Literature

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Also what he sees about the U.S. empire is that it's much bigger than "the United States" as a country. It's a global empire with peripheral elites who swear fealty to it; i.e. leaders of other countries who are loyal to the U.S., and when they break from the U.S., that's the end of the empire. And that has internal consequences within the "core" of the empire, like the Italian peninsula for the Roman Empire, which was much bigger than that.

>"An empire is more than violence around the world," said Galtung. "It is a cross-border structure with a center, the imperial country, and a periphery, the client countries. The point about imperialism is to make the elites in the periphery do the jobs for the center."

The problem with thinking we're going to get a Caesar now, though, is that Caesar marked the beginning of the transition of empire. But if the U.S. is falling, we've already had our "Caesar" a long time ago, or we transitioned into rule by imperial forces instead of a republic before many people posting here were even born. You're not getting Caesar, you're getting increasingly decadent, incompetent tyrants.