There are a lot of people (and many at FR) that think the way of life in the US for its first 200 years was perhaps a little more to their liking than the last 60 or so.
Thirst for oil has meant foreign entanglements.
Up to and especially during Tesla’s time the vibrancy of discovery is charming to me; when Tesla envisioned powering the world from the falls at Niagara he seriously underestimated the power soon to be consumed in his burgeoning world.
When we went from cataracts to geysers the infrastructure expanded accordingly and that is when the inter-dependency began.