Reply #: Stretching for metaphors [View All]

[sweetheart]

Must we bother with stars? Empire collapse has plenty of historical
beef here on earth. One of the critical factors, it seems is that
they all go bankrupt, and collapse from the fringes by losing
influence. Rome had trouble paying its army, USSR as well... and
with a dollar collapse, the US will have similar trouble.

I dunna know about giant stars. I've never seen one close up. The
US is no longer giant, as we speak. THe propaganda of superpowerdom
is wearing thin, and nothing in the empire is healthy except the
graft.