Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Leeja Miller"
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@ericpmoss - Following on from my last comment - having thought about it. I think Americans find it so hard to separate themselves from the nation because America is not a country, it's an idea. Unless everyone keeps believing in the idea, the idea ceases to be a thing and America ceases to exist.
Its like paper currency - it has value cos everyone believes it has value. Gold has intrinsic value, you don't have to keep believing in it for it to have value.
America is like paper money, its relatively new and you have to believe in it. The rest of the world is like Gold, its been around forever and it does not require YOU to believe in it.
Americans are participants in the idea of America, Germans are people who live on a bit of land called Germany. Same as the Brits, same as the Japanese. IMO - this is why Americans find it so hard to accept or partake in criticism of the country. If you are criticising America you are criticising the idea, if you are criticising the idea, what's the point in believing in the idea if its a bad idea, and the idea is the only thing America is built upon.
I think Gen Z see it differently as they see themselves as people on earth, they have friends all over the planet and they have way less attachment to their nation-state. Ill have to research this more thoroughly.
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@terryshrk - IM an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations, as such I assure you that I think about America every day. Here let me help out your propagandised brain:
These are the 18 indicators of a collapsing civilisation.
Plague / disease Yes
Environmental change Yes
Massive wealth inequality Yes
Loss of the administrative class Yes
The government stops governing Yes
Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Yes
Loss of faith in the political system Yes
Economic collapse Yes
Exposed obvious corruption Yes
Crumbling infrastructure Yes
Mismanagement of a crisis Yes
Societal division Yes
Loss of belief in the unity of the society Yes
Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Yes
Increased isolationism Yes
Rising internal violence Yes
Excessive spending on military / arms race Yes
Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / inflation Yes
If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18.
America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken.
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Oh and nice of you to notice the migrant, yes the migrants America caused by their failed imperial adventures in the Middle East, yes we are deeply deeply grateful for the catastrophic mess you caused there. It cost you $8 trillion, but you just walked away, the people of the Middle East are left clearing up your mess and we Europeans are left looking after the refugees you created.
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Yes, I do think about America every day, my main preoccupation is the only question that really matters. How do you MANAGE the collapse? Will it be like the end of the British Empire - or Yugoslavia 1992 with way more guns. Half a billion guns...
How does a county of 330 million people with half a billion guns manage the collapse of its empire, society and economy...???
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