Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Bidding farewell to the American century | The Chris Hedges Report" video.

  1. As an outside observer with a hint of optomism to throw upon the flames of terminal decline that you and many people see on the horizon, may I say that America's 20-year-long effort to turn around a feudal nation has to be regarded also in the fact that it may look like an abject failure on paper, but let us remember that American and its allies came in to a land governed by warlords, got it up on its feet, trained the military, put things right as far as getting equal rights for women etc., and low and behold, after 20 years, the Afghans acted like it was 20 days when America and its allies pulled out. They acted like they learned nothing at all and they were willing to let the Taliban come in and take over put their women into the Middle Ages and there was no resistance to speak of. How can this be? My question is full of anger and my heated way of asking it is what in the hell is wrong with Afghanistan men? How could they behave like docile school children and let a rogue bunch of bandits take over their country and subjugate their women so helplessly when they had learned how to run a modern society. Why did they abandon two decades of help from a handful of countries? It's a crime against humanity that the Afghanistan men act like slaves; it's not America's fault for cutting the umbilical cord after 20 years---you can’t hold their hand forever! Lastly, America is crumbling to dust but your empire has a long way to go before anything even close to civil unrest brings down the American myth. What all of us have to remember is that the digital age is responsible for what we see leveling society as it used to be before the age of technical enlightenment was upon us. Young people will glide through the turmoil as the world and your country as you know it becomes something unrecognizable. In truth, AI is going to be sculpting as the new landscape and an unrecognizable society very soon. The old ways are always hard to say goodbye to, but we have to admit that it's all going up in smoke, but your country will rise above the ashes of the golden ages’ past. A new way of life is emerging that is hard to stomach for people who have seen what a world looks like built and run by humans. However; this is all going to change, because our world is going to have masters that will make what we have known before disappear in a heartbeat. We cannot find comfort in knowing the new way of life will make our old way of life seem to be from another era, but that is exactly what is happening all around us.
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