I like this quote, but there’s some extenuating circumstances that make it mostly moot.

1. Rome didn’t have millions of firearms in the hands of deluded fanatically competitive consumerists dependent on the Whole of Rome for their very existence (food, transportation, semiconductors, Bubaroo, etc).
2. Rome didn’t have the population concentrations that modern cities do, vulnerable to electricity or water loss, and dependent on instant communication systems for security, food and disease control.
3. Rome didn’t face NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical) weapons.
4. Romans weren’t dependent on Rome for survival, for the most part. Ex-Romans could basically walk or sail to a frontier and make a new life, build a town and start a new country. Any able body had value in most places.
5. Rome used banks: the banks didn’t own Rome’s ability to conduct business through magically derived credit systems.