Brian Villanueva on We're Not At the End, But You Can See It From Here

That's a perspective I've never heard you articulate that way before, the idea that our society must either be a global hegemon or die trying. Do you mean America, Western Civilization in general? I've mentioned before that I believe the Rome comparison is civilizationally correct but temporally off -- it's not AD 476 but 50 BC, and what's coming over the hill isn't a barbarian horde but Caesar's army. What our Caesar will look like, I don't know, but he's coming. So I'm not sure I disagree with you. I've been encouraging a multipolar world for a while now; it sounds like you think we will never be satisfied in such a world though.