Plutonian_Persona wrote:
Ditto. However, most Americans do not believe that anything truly bad can happen to this country as if it is somehow exempt from the simple historical patterns, which are those of nature itself (i.e. conception, birth, growth, apex, decline, and death.)
I think that a large part of that is simply nationalism, however, it is not inexcusable to think that we are in a new age where complete destruction will never happen to any nation as this world is historically different. There are distinctions between this world and the one of past empires.
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The United States will go the way of the Roman, Mongol, Spanish, French, and British Empires. To use that often used (yet very true) quote, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." In my view people will always repeat the mistakes of the past because they cannot understand anything but their personal Eternal Now.
The US will not be able to eternally be the superpower. I also can understand the wisdom of your position as I will admit that I could simply be too optimistic about the future. Human beings are bound by their intellectual limitations; the notion that we are truly rational beings seems absurd given our seemingly millions of biases.
snake321 wrote:
Yeah, but it is not JUST America though, corporate interests and big international businesses are taking over, everywhere. In Europe, UK, Canada, America, Russia, Mexico, Japan, China, Australia, everywhere. And this is the threat of globalization, a world wide police state, one world, one nation, where the people are slaves.... Think George Orwell "1984"
In the international age if one of the great nations collapses the others will be bound to fall. I do not see the corporations themselves as capable of implementing the "One Nation", the corporatist, international state is what I see as the potential problem.
snake321 wrote:
It'll all be united under the UN banner, the super nation..... The "one world nation" of the "anti-christ", who likely works in the Vatican Church. I think theyr trying to fulfill their own prophecies to scare and brow beat dissenters into joining the cult (religion, more particularly Christianity), as a way of playing the gullible and stringing them along.....
I can sort of see a UN-like body in control of the world order you speak of. I don't see it as being tied to the Vatican necessarily though and would likely think that the headquarters would be in a neutral-ish European area. I also don't see it using Christianity as many Christians fear the world state, but rather I would see it negating Christianity and being built on a secular cult as I see the modern terror state as trying to seem "rationalist" while attacking Christians as mystics. The world state would likely be built upon a liberal-seeming but truly totalitarian variant of progressivism where all sorts of unimportant freedoms are tolerated but those that threaten the state and I would more likely see this as like "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. At least if I were to argue for an evil future world order.