Explanation: The bust depicted is of the Roman Emperor Caracalla, who was… not a nice fellow. He sacked Roman cities for daring to offend him, assassinated his brother, and rapidly devalued Roman currency.

Rome during it’s fall was eerily similar to the modern US.

For one, a lot of people were brain damaged by lead.

https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6395049/#:~:text=Intake of lead by the,decline of the Roman Empire.

Intake of lead by the aristocracy may have been as much as 1 mg/day. The resultant mental incompetence and especially the rapidly declining birth rate among the ruling class are now believed to have been major factors in the decline of the Roman Empire.

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