I would probably name four reasons,
which are not original, and not necessarily in this order: leadership
degenerates and becomes decadent, ethics and virtues, pagan or
Christian, no-longer promote physical or intellectual courage, the
ethnic homogeneity and order of the founders of the culture are lost,
borders and immigration become porous and alien forces
and unassimilated ethnic groups take advantage of the decadence of the leadership
to push their own agendas that do not benefit the founding nation,
which then slowly or quickly falls.
This has now happened in America, and
it probably happened in Ancient Rome and elsewhere...The way back
from decline or fall seems to be to reverse engineer these causes of
the fall, and bring back the character, tone, and guiding beliefs of
the founding ethos, reformed a bit for the time, the place, and the
people involved... In the future we need to avoid creating
empires.
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