The *real* Rome *did* fall -- and we've made it this far, anyway. It's not as if The End Of Civilization As We Know It was necessarily the same as the end of the world.

(Personally, of course, I cope by just ignoring deep shit like this most of the time -- just like every other unthinking schmuck. Why, what did you think; that there's supposed to be any *other* way? :-)