@hawkeye10,
You can play all the word games you want, it won't change the fact that you almost always attempt at some point to wrap yourself in your deluded flag of freedom. Note also how you carefully edited my post, to leave out the reference to: ". . . the encroaching evil of the all-powerful (but never specifically identified) 'them.'" It's very naughty of you to cut that clause off, and then try to pretend i don't know the nature of
your bullshit cons when i see them coming down the pike.
I have never yet seen you provide a shred of credible evidence that "the civilization is ending." These sort of vague appeals to murky conspiracies and looming disasters are your stock in trade. Providing no reliable details of exactly who these nefarious powerful people are, nor in what the collapse of civilization consists are the other side of your silly rhetorical coin. Civilizations change, assuredly--but they don't end. The Vandals, Visigoths, Ostragoths, Alans, Avars, Burgundians, Lombards, etc., simply learned a little Latin, dragooned some clerks and set up themsevles as the new masters. Care to tell who the new barbarians are supposed to be? Care to provide some evidence for your bullshit stories.
Roman authority collapsed in the west, but it continued for another thousand years in the east. Many of the European nations have based their legal codes on Roman code. You can't conduct a complex discussion without using latin roots, and in the west, at least, the more than 2000 years of the Roman Empire is the standard against which modern powers are judged, and the most common basis for rhetorical comparison. Your ignorance is pathetic, but more pathetic is your ignorance of the extent of your ignorance.
