are you certain, Time Prophet?

The fall of the Roman Republic is full of examples of a system not designed for the size and scope of what it was facing a hundred or two years later, and people breaking unwritten norms to address immediate struggles between conservatism and liberalism without considering the long-term effects.

Not that it could ever happen here.

time begins and then time ends
and then time begins once again
it is happening now
it has happened before
it will surely happen again