The US Empire is Collapsing

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If the Chinese want to invade Australia they can have it! I really don't care, because as far as I'm concerned the values that we are constantly told by our mainstream media are "Australian", are ones that I simply do not share. I think of myself as being a citizen of Planet Earth, not some sh***y little tribe.

Besides, I really do not believe the Chinese will invade, because they are far too busy buying up the place. Why invade with military forces, if you can just make an offer our sleazy politicians cannot resist?

The challenge is within....it challenges itself, its not an external 'enemy' its collapsing from within.

Noam Chomsky on Trump and the decline of the American Superpower
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What I think roughly 50% of Americans want is to stop competing globally, shut most immigrants out, unless they qualify under a narrow list of desired characteristics such as professionalibility, education, expanding bank account, love for the US, not interfere with other countries so much, the government to strictly adhere to the Constitution, reduction in regulations of all kind, as in, a weaker centralized government, and cut taxes significantly.

What you are describing is paleoconservatism, which is a nonsensical political chimera.

How can you reduce regulations and still prevent globalization? That literally makes no sense.

Americans do not seem interested in competing globally for those high tech jobs which will increasingly be a larger part of the kinds of available employment. Automation will increase demand for highly skilled workers who can maintain AI. These would be individuals who are pretty good at mathematics and engineering which we don't produce as much of as certain other countries.
America is not embracing two areas of growth, electric cars and solar energy so other places around the globe are seizing these opportunities to generate billions of dollars. If the US continues down this path, it's likely the economy will shrink and the next generation will be the ones experiencing the impact more because it will be more obvious then.
Americans want to reduce regulations as a part of limiting central government but they don't feel up to the challenge of competing globally for these high tech jobs that will be created by the thousands if not millions in the coming years. It will be Europe and Asia reaping the benefits. Reducing regulations is only a small part of how to compete.

I haven't seen you around here in a while, Ana.

I rather missed you.

Which is all very well for those who are good at, and have an interest in, those fields. What about the rest of us, the majority who are just not that good at mathematics and who would make lousy engineers? No future for us?

Well thanks! This new phone I have seems to be doing better with WP than others which would slow down and not load, etc, so it is easier to post at least for now. I mostly access this site on cells.
Hope you've been doing ok.

One summer I had to take an Algebra class over again and i had an excellent teacher and i did really well. Think i had an A or B one in it and i liked the class but this teacher wasn't at my regular school and I was never in his class again. Wish I could have had that teacher for every math class I had to take. With classes consistently taught by energetic, positive, motivated teachers most of us could be engineers and mathematicians. Problem is there are millions of us who never have a teacher like that teaching math or science. Its easy to read books to youth and make it sound interesting and kids gravitate toward stories generally so it's no wonder more of them are interested in reading and writing them but we've pretty much reached the point everything has been told and we simply regurgitate the same plot formulas over and over only changing the details. There's not much future in it money wise. The world isn't going to value it as much as they will technology. And I'm someone who likes words and stories, too. Its just the way things are going. People want their lives to be easier and technology makes it possible. If robots can do things and provide strength we do not naturally possess, humanity will be inclined to gravitate toward that technology. Robotics is a field in need of IT specialists and engineers. Since they will be doing the manual labor for us, those jobs will no longer exist and why should they? Often they create injured workers anyway who file workman's comp claims on the employer and require expensive medical intervention. Humanity can adapt and might be happier with robots and computers doing a lot of the manual labor and mental tasks if we can let go of the mindset that somehow it's healthier to have those types of unskilled labor jobs often in polluted, unhealthy conditions.

everytime you call for authority to fix things for you, your judgements, etc, you call for more power to authority,
security, its a fantasy, a whim to make things go as you want

high skilled?? e-e-e- didn't we say that some decades already? still education been has devaluated all this time, india, china eg, is cheaper and skilled, don't fool around, youth in the west is (made) undiscipled and lazy

don't beg for a future, this is marxism here,
its not 'having-to-work-for-something-else', that makes for being human
(wishfull thinking of tptb is wishfull thinking too, but there's more resources to put behind wishes)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8cXSqB5j0M

I disagree on that-



and I think you're 100% right on that- but I think it's the regurgitating of plot formula that prohibits other stories to be told- the formula requires a certain amount of plot points, a nice ending that wraps up everything, a character that develops etc- and it has to be "immersive" - the scriptwriting handbook " save the cat" has the subtitle "the last book on storytelling you'll ever need" - It's so formulaic, you can base algorithms on it. ....-> just abandon the formula.

short film feativals, experiments and posthumuosly published fragments however show that it's relatively easy to come up with other things- it might not be popcorn-cinema though, and might not work for the chinese market - or the american market, for that matter.

so, yeah. not much future in it money-wise. but then again, neither is much money in anything but advertising-algorithms, tech, and arms.

We're be culled from the worlds population to make room for those who can contribute to the rich. Maybe another world war(they always seem to mostly kill off the poor, rich don't go to fight in the front)
I dont know hopefully we'll die long before then but it may only be 30 years off