I have often wondered the same thing. We could build the Battleship Missouri and the Hoover Dam...could we do that again?
Tell me about it.
This is what’s happening to the UK:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/10/man-killed-fishcake-hot-burned-throat-10894623/
Hitler must still be knocking his head, in his grave, wondering how he could have lost to this bunch.
Ten years to build the “Freedom Tower”.
Empire State building? 18 months.
Between unions and lawyers we don’t stand a chance.
Nephilim and Anakim. The Bible talks about them. Giants.
There has never been a “Thousand Year Reich”, Republic, Monarchy, or anything else. The Chinese probably come closest and if I understand correctly they were at constant war with each other and Mongols. It just can’t be done. The people required to do one step are changed by the result to people who cannot do what their fathers did. It’s like stirring the cream out of coffee. It’s a one directional transformation.
May be politically incorrect to note but as America has embraced hedonism, decadent epicureanism, and “multi culturalism”, it as a nation has declined. Post Christian neo paganism is not the foundation for greatness.
Previous generation were not globalists and believed in American industry. In contrast today’s Republican “leaders” are globalist Free Traitors™ and don’t give shit.
Very good article there. And I was pleased to see that Afghanistan was mentioned:
“We have been fighting in Afghanistan without result for 18 years. Our forefathers helped to win World War II and defeat the Axis Powers in four years.”
Watching Ron Howards Apollo 13, as they lit it off and it began rising, I KNEW we’d lost something vital and elemental in our Culture and it wasn’t coming back.
Who is John Galt?
Trump is one of those giants. He is exactly the sort of guy who makes the Big Stuff happen. Case in point is the ice rink in NYC that the city just couldn’t seem to ever finish. Trump stepped in and just did it super quick.
But Trump is virtually alone in government. We have shackled ourselves with regulations, unions, and environmental fear. He’s trying to get the country back to where we can do great things, but both parties are fighting him.
Has nobody read Atlas Shrugged?!
That is where we are, except there is not an “overt” quitting to a Galt’s Gulch. It’s why I think we are on the brink of collapse. Well, one of the reasons.
Mankind reached its zenith and is on the back side. The downslope. Tech marches on because of the tech we already created and are using. But the human soul is being starved. It will not end well, though we’ll all have really good air conditioning and fast food.
Hatred of the good for being the good + resentment against achievement + egalitarianism = leftard mentality
Why wonder about what we can or cannot accomplish when the problem is that there is no “we”.
I believe the potential is still there, at least for now. But that potential will diminish over time.
The problem is that we’ve killed all incentive for those who have the ability. A few can manage to do great things, either through luck, radical determination or outsized egos - Trump is probably an example of one or more of those. But we throw up so many barriers to success that even the knowledge that success is a practical possibility can be negated by legal/regulatory/social barriers great enough to obliterate it.
Why even try? And that is the heart of the problem.
Travelers funded railroads. Now they fund cruise ships. Cities that change populations once or twice a week.
In Seattle we had a similar experience with their highway system. It was around 1959 and the transportation experts were planning the future of the highway system in the metropolitan area. The city had grown up around its most prominent feature, Lake Washington. Approximately 2 miles wide and 22 miles in length, it shaped the city and defined the requirements for travel.
Ambitious engineers had constructed a floating highway across the lake in order to tie Interstate 90 to Interstate 5. That nexus was to take place in the heart of residential Seattle - and the residents were up in arms. They successfully interrupted the construction of the interchange (at a cost of tens of millions of dollars) for almost 20 years.
The RH Thompson Expressway left its “onramps to nowhere” visible to frustrated drivers and residents alike. In this case however, the need outweighed the aesthetics and the engineers prevailed. As inadequate as the final structure is, I shudder to recall the mess that area drivers were forced to endure.
His youtube talks are highly recommended and so very worth the time invested in them.
This is a great column to read as big chunks of California have sat in the dark without power due to threat of wildfire from a poorly-maintained and -upgraded electric transmission and distribution system.