As a kid who liked history I often wondered what it was like to live through the fall of an empire. How bad were the problems in the history books really as far as affecting day to day life of an average person? Did people know it was collapsing? Why didn't they do anything about it? More like that about average peoples day to day experience and perspective.
I'm sorry I ever asked. I didn't want to know that bad. The answers can stop at any time. I'm not curious anymore.
The sovereign individual talks about the fall of the Roman Empire. The way it’s described, is not the way a collapse sounds. There wasn’t a big event that indicated the collapse. They declared Rome had collapsed a few decades later. In other words, historians might say that the American empire collapsed during Covid. Rome was considered to have collapse after it was no longer recognizable as the Roman Empire. If an American from the 1800s was brought back to life, would he be able to tell that this is still America?
That was one of the things that fascinated me. Historians kind of framed the fall as a finite point in time when clearly events led up to it and all the same people live in the same places with mostly the same lives the next day.
Yeah they’re a bit dramatic lol it implies the scary “anarchy” state occurred after the collapse as well
