Now you have also identified the driving force behind every expansionist attitude in history. Rome, British Empire, America (and many others besides) all usurp

Now you have also identified the driving force behind every expansionist attitude in history. Rome, British Empire, America (and many others besides) all usurped by an ideal that they are and must be the only true light of life and civilization and no goodness or success can be had outside of their rampantly materialistic perspectives. It hasn’t just been decades, my friend. It’s the perpetual war with an insidious evil that is captured in the aphorism: all that glitters isn’t gold.