Rome Took Centuries To Fall. It May Take The West Mere Decades. |
Rome Took Centuries To Fall. It May Take The West Mere Decades.
World leaders, combining citizen bribes in the form of socialization, mass immigration, and cultural hatred, are rapidly destroying the West.
Vince Coyner | October 28, 2026
In the movie Gladiator, Djimon Hounsou’s character looks up at the Roman Colosseum and says, “I didn’t know man could build such things.”
I’ve felt exactly that way countless times in my life. Probably the first time was when I was in Normandy, France, staring at Mont-Saint-Michel, built on an outcrop half a mile from shore. When the tide’s out, you can walk there, but when it’s in, water surrounds it.
The 13th-century Gothic cathedral sits on the foundation of a Romanesque church begun in the 11th century. The spire reaches 500 ft. above sea level, and the cathedral is surrounded by a village that looks every bit its 1,000-year age.
I’ve always been amazed that they could build such a thing with the technology of 800 years ago. The logistics of reaching it were so complex that it was the one place the British could not conquer during the Hundred Years’ War.
My awe at what those men could build was driven home the first time I visited France, where I spent a week seeing glorious buildings that had been standing for half a millennium or more. Before I left home, Atlanta had just unveiled a new skyscraper. The week I returned, we had a windstorm, and they had to close that brand-new building because part of the façade sheared off.
The juxtaposition of what men could do back then with relatively little technology and what we were building with exponentially more was simply staggering. It makes me think of the 1,400-foot Billionaires’ Row building in New York City, completed in 2015, that’s now crumbling.
But this is not a piece about how great the old days were and how much they suck today. No, it’s about how great the old days were and how much it will suck if we don’t........