Le déclin américain est un thème que je croise dans mes lectures depuis mes débuts en enseignement. Plusieurs auteurs on traité de cette question en effectuant des liens avec la chute de Rome. Ici l'auteur ajoute une autre perspective, à quoi ressemblait Rome après la chute. Les États-Unis s'apprêtent-ils à vivre leur version du Moyen-Âge?
"The new issue of the print magazine contains a story by me called “The End of the Roman Empire Wasn’t That Bad.”
The title (which, like most titles, I didn’t write) represented (like many titles) intentional overstatement-for-effect. But the point of the piece was to suggest that maybe Americans should shift the way they talked and thought about the Roman Empire as a metaphor for this country.
For as long as there has been an American republic, some Americans have worried about its impending Roman-style decline and fall. I said: What about the time after Rome fell? What could we learn by imagining ourselves in our version of the Dark Ages—with a failed system of central governance, and life going on at the duchy-by-duchy, monastery-by-monastery level, which for us would mean cities, states, and regions?"
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