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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Remember that the Roman empire ultimately fell because it expanded too much and couldn't keep control, caused mainly by the Roman ideology of unlimited conquest. We literally haven't evolved our societal theories beyond Rome.