How a Great Power Falls Apart - Decline Is Invisible From the Inside

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[–]TruthTeller 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

America has been falling apart since the day of its founding but has still come out ok. Each generation thinks it has the best evidence of the coming of the end of the world. And each one turns out to be wrong.

[–]DisgustResponse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You can't time it, but you know it's coming. America is still an infant state compared to the dynasties of Rome, Constantinople, Egypt, Babylon, Persia.

[–]TruthTeller 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's always coming. (For that matter even the end of the universe is coming. You can't time it though.)