“..It’s gone,...”
No, it ain’t, good bro...not until WE say so.
Not by a long shot.
Jim Rogers moved his family to Singapore after his daughters learned Mandarin (Chinese). He said the schools over there expect the kids to learn Math and Science by 6th grade at the equivalent 12th grade level of the USA. The one thing they do miss over there is the courses in advanced self esteem and climate change, and diversity that are taught in US public schools.
Rome fell once too. Nothing is forever.
if we dont hoist a pirate flag and start slittin throats [metaphorically, of course *^} ] all is indeed lost as we once knew it...the hourglass is in need of a flip before it runs dry...