Friday, November 16, 2007

Is time going to pass us by?

The USA like all Empires has a beginning and an ending. The conquest and colonization of the Americas by the Europeans was completed in less than four hundred years. The Expansion of the USA into the Pacific and parts of the Caribbean and Latin America continued into the last part of the nineteenth century. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the USA was reaching into the rest of the world. Like Europe, The USA at times, used conquest and colonization to satisfy its appetite. After WWII the USA became a major player in the world. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the USA has become the New Rome. Like Rome, the USA has now reached the point of implosion. Not unlike Rome, we are inviting cheap labor and migration to replace our population and at the same time, outsourcing. We are no longer a nation of productivity but a country of consumption. There are external forces wanting to surpass us or even engulf and replace our way of life. Internally we are losing our moral fabric. All that counts is the all might dollar and materialism. We now spend our leisure time watching gladiators performing in coliseums. Family has less meaning and we are becoming more secular.

We don’t have to ponder the future; all we have to do is look at what happened in Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the beginning of the Dark Ages. Islam is on the move again, here in the USA and Europe. The Latino Culture is reclaiming vast regions of this country. What this country is going to look like in the next twenty to forty years is not a mystery, if we stop and look around, we know what is coming.

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