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Your second point is well taken, but there's a lot of pain in between even if those worried can take refuge in their culture continuing. To your first point, I
by DragonStrength 4y ago
Your second point is well taken, but there's a lot of pain in between even if those worried can take refuge in their culture continuing.
To your first point, I think this is a case of trying to predict when, not if. The article calls out the year of Edward Gibbon's book: 1776. An Englishman in 1776 would be right to recognize their empire was in decline. Looking to Rome's decline makes sense. But from 2023, we mark the end of the British Empire as about World War II, which makes this smell like analysts predicting a market crash will come without an argument for when.
- tambourine_man 4y agoSure, it’s always hard for those in between. And of course, even though the British Empire is no more, we’re writing here in English :)
- kergonath 4y ago> Sure, it’s always hard for those in between. It was not particularly pleasant for most people during the empire. Dickensian London was not particularly great. It was not great either for the rural poor in England, or the locals in India. Or the slaves and small farmers in the Roman Empire. We rarely think about the losers when we idealise an empire. > And of course, even though the British Empire is no more, we’re writing here in English :) And Latin was spoken for centuries after the end of the western Roman Empire, even as the eastern part completely reverted to Greek. These things tend to lag a bit.