We’re Witnessing the Fall of the Biggest Empire in History

The Roman Empire. The Mongol Empire. The Ottoman Empire. Each seemed eternal in its time — vast, unconquerable, immutable. And each fell.

Civilisations collapse. It’s not a theory. It’s a pattern.

The Maya stripped their soil bare. Easter Island turned to famine and cannibalism. Iceland was once forested until the Vikings felled every tree. The rolling hills of Britain — romanticised as pastoral — are ecological dead zones, carved by centuries of deforestation.

Even deserts were once lush. The Sahara held rivers, lakes, and crocodiles. Now it holds the memory of Eden.

We live in a global empire now — one without borders, one that spans the entire planet. Its collapse won’t be regional. It will be planetary.

PFAS chemicals — toxic, persistent — are found in the rainwater of Antarctica and the snow of Tibet. No corner of the Earth is untouched. No soil is safe. No water is clean.

And yet, we continue. We conform. We adjust. We tell ourselves this is normal.

In 1951, the Asch Conformity Studies showed how easily people will deny what they see with their own eyes — just to match the group. Today, we do the same. We see the sickness. We feel the collapse. But we keep climbing the mountain of denial.

As Krishnamurti said, “It’s no measure of mental health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

Unless we find a cure for that sickness, the patient will not survive. And many of us alive today may have a front-row seat to the fall.

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