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America has been sliding downhill for several decades now. Our standard of living, our economy, sovereignty, borders infrastructure, you name it...
America is being incrementally compromised and undermined. Many feel this is all intentional.
All this has been created by endless government growth, government’s desire to control, government unions, and wide spread government mismanagement and corruption.
Well, let’s hope so: a Christian leader moves the capital out of the rotten-to-the-core decadent original capital, and after societal collapse in the original homeland (Italy in the original, the northeast in the rerun), the self-consciously Christian nation (Roman Empire in the original, United States in the rerun) continues for another thousand years or so.
I just hope we manage to learn from history and don’t neglect the fleet and start relying on a 28th century analogue of Genoan mercenaries for our defense when we come to that phase of the rerun: if we don’t we might even be able to keep going longer.
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity,
religion and morality are indispensable supports.
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.
A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
- George Washington, presidential Farewell Address
I think it will be more like the USSR. What should have been obvious years ago will seem sudden and unexpected to many who simply could not face what was happening around them. There are still people who believe America can survive its pervasive and hardening divisions.
America is too young a civilization, to be showing the signs of moral and cultural decadence that are associated with very old civilizations. An American Nero like Obama has arrived about 1000 years too early.
I disagree, instead of using the sheer age of civilisation, index it along technological progress and you will see we are living in NEro times already. It is called accelerating returns and acts as a time multiplier.
If you graph tech onnovations vs. moral decay you will see that once tech innovations peak we will start to see moral decay, these days we are not innovating as much as we used to vs. other countries and this means we have “peaked out” so to speak..
Same for Rome and Babylon....
I don't know...let's have a birds-eye look at America from the next Space Shuttle flight.
Oops....
The paradigm shift accelerant is 'communication'.
This could drag on for anther 100 years but somehow I don’t think that is likely in the information age.
Just as mass-communication has led to to a far more rapid abandonment of the foundation of any sustainable civilization, I suspect the fall will come much sooner too.
“America is too young a civilization, to be showing the signs of moral and cultural decadence that are associated with very old civilizations. An American Nero like Obama has arrived about 1000 years too early.”
Welcome to the age of mass-media and mass commutations which have enabled liberals over the last 100+ years to do 500 years worth of moral and political decay.
Other older civilizations lasted longer in part because the spread of theses corruptly dysfunctional concepts was slower and therefore more prone to dying of dysfunction before reaching the greater population.
Today it only takes a few generations, and the separation of children from their grandparents in nuclear families & public school for it all to be accomplished.
In its current state, it’s days are numbered.
In the restored republic we will rise again...not to world domination.
Television and mass media speeds everything up. In the future, every nation will have 15 minutes of empire.
Of course.
The only question is, Sulla or Pinochet or Suharto.
We have WAY more rivers than Indonesia.
Hadrian was also a homosexual.
Technological change hastens the collapse of American Hegemony? I think that’s a huge factor here.