Pax Romanus

[bardiphouka]

Wondering idly what this continent will be like when the US and Canada fall. Not that I am suggesting it, or that I know how, just remembering history. The average of an Empire, I remember reading, is about 200 years. Which means the US has hmm..roughly 150 years left? It actually did not become an 'empire'per se until WWII. And Canada, for better or worse, is tied together with the US in however it does fall. War? Famine? Plague? short circuit in the internet? No idea. But we have a choice I think to make it something to be remembered fondly in legend or as a tale to frighten children.

Comments

[goofyrobo.livejournal.com]

I think that power grid failure last year might have been a good foreshadowiung of how to confuse both countries.

[silme.livejournal.com]

No, no, you must read Elizabeth Bear's Hammered, in which Canada becomes a superpower with China -- both over the US.

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

Canada,imho, has far too much common sense to become a superpower. But then we are talking about a Country where the conservative part once went by the name CRAP

[silme.livejournal.com]

But read the book anyway. It's good. And she's up for the Campbell medal at Worldcon, so you could vote for her!

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

So many authors, so little time (looking at half a bookshelf I bought at Millenicon last weekend.

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Pax, I think, is feminine, so it should be pax Romana -- a Time Lady of great fortitude (and attitude).

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

I sit corrected...the correct phrase is Pax Romana

[tonyhippy.livejournal.com]

Where America is concerned Romanus seems so much more apt. It might be incorrect grammar but it has anus in it.
I think the next big disaster may be yellowstone, in which case it'll take Canada and most of northern Europe with it. It'll make the tsunami look like a blustery day.

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

Yellowstone is oddly stable in its instability. What geologists and seismologists seem to be worried about these days (again) is the New Madrid Fault, which is the 2nd largest set of plates in North America, stretching across much of the midwest and mideast. The last time it fully erupted it changed the course of the Mississippi River near St Louis and created a new ridge in the Smokies. A full size eruption along the lines of the 1811 quakes could effectivly split the US. But even that could possibly be overcome.