I am a cis het white man, and I too think about the Roman Empire every day. Specifically, how it crumbled, how people were unable to change and nobody seemed to be able to stop it. And also how the people living the fall just continued working and having families, not really understanding how this time it really was the fall of Rome and not that brutal civil war they just survived a few years ago. Like, how does it even feel to be part of a slow apocalypse? I think about this every day.