Amerika = Rome; both based on Materialistic Consumerism aka Coveting

Amerika did not begin with a moral, stoical Baseline of Civilized Behavior (BCB) because Benjamin Franklin FREE MASONIC degenerares didn't want a "religion poured down their throats". Now, the 1787 eXperiment in letting people believe anything they want has bit us in the ass--possibly fatally.

Amerika = Rome; both based on materialistic comsumerism aka coveting. God, our Creator warns us fallen humans must live together by at least moral stoical virtues of no illing, not bearing false witness, not stealing, not adulerating and--NOT COVETING. The "western" materialistic lifestyle BPS presents as Soylent Green-Planet Earth-unsustainable FAILS BECAUSE BOTH ROME AND AMERIKAN SOCIETIES FAILED TO INSIST ON FRUGAL LIVING VIRTUE. It's too late for Rome--but Amerika could reject nihilist hedonist consumerism by mandating the previously mentioned 5x moral stoical laws enabled by each Citizen receiving 3x hours of life skills training in High School and 2x years of National Service (NS) in a functional corps of choice to create off-grid skilled, DIY self-reliant content people who SAVE MONEY (social exchange credits) derived from their work. A self-controlled frugal economy society akin to the Swiss.

As BPS astutely begins, degenerate decadence can only happen if the economy is flourishing in exploitation of a planet's untapped resources. Instead--since we won't always have virgin planets to eco-rape--we all need to learn and value CLEVER, "Little Spaceship on the Prairie" CONTENTMENT--instead of no-brainer indulgement materialism.

John 3:16
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