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In part, it is because it is beyond belief, even for a rational person who has done the research for themselves.

In part, because we continue to believe, as a nation, that we live in a historical vacuum. We forget about applying the lessons of the Medici's, the Byzantines and even the Roman Empire to ourselves. We dismiss the lessons to be learned from a study of the rise and fall of other empires.

The Great Game is understood for what it truly is, by just a very few in this nation.

Many are so involved in their little part of the great game in our politics and bureaucracies, that when the nation falls, it will be a very great shock to them.

The fact that our nation will fall, whether to political forces, social, cultural, or economic ones, is a certainty. It's not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

The only thing that I can see, that will prevent or delay such a fall into darkness, will be a return to our foundations.

Until people are able to look beyond their part in the game, (getting out of it what they want, when they want it) and look to see a larger picture of reality, a return to a love of this nation, it's history, it's culture, and regain a cultural and societal hope for the future, we are indeed lost.

This is the short version: People can't see beyond their own noses...if that far....