Light summer doom post: If we’re in the middle of a Roman-style collapse, which of the many collapses of Rome is it like?

Like all great empires, the American Empire is concerned with the fate of its predecessors (literally, those that went, retired, or died before). Of all its predecessors, the Roman Empire looms large in the American imagination. The idea that American (and Western) men constantly think about Ancient Rome even became a topic of discussion and