Feb 11, 2004 01:43
Decay of the American Cultural Landscape. Relative to the fall of the Roman Empire that ussured in near thousand year Dark Ages where nothing productive happened. Neither in culture nor civilization. In my personal opinion this will happen again after the fall of America. So many things depend on America and the marketing of the culture that if it collapsed, there would be nothing left to fill the void and another Dark Ages will reign. Same as when the Roman's were in power. The state became so corpulent and self-fulfilling that it lost sight to why it was created in the first place. That and the people didn't seem to take care of how the country would run itself. They thought that since Rome had always been there for as long as they had lived, and their fathers and so forth, that the state would remain forever. That the state would move forward on its own momentum.
But as we know, that wasn't the case, and now history is repeating itself. American culture has grown decadent and has lost sight of what it was created to be. We believe that America will last because it always has. It will continue on its own momentum. Eventually we will get an unthrowable dictator, but we won't care until its too late. Eventually the dictator will die and with him/her the state will die and thus begins the fall of what it is to be American. Bring on the New Dark Ages. The "Goths" will be happy when that comes. Its the time they have been dreaming about. Hehehe
I, for one, hope to live to see the end. The chaos that ensues will be very interesting to document for the future. It would even be cooler to see the rebuilding of the world after the fall of America. And to see which nation will end up being the new cultural superpower. After a couple World Wars and a new formation of a variation of the UN, It would be cool to see how everything would turn out. Who the new heros would be, how the new nation's ideals compare to ancient (by that time anyways) American and to see the English language turned into what the future people will call an ancient tongue. What language will those people speak? English is a variation of Latin, which was the dominant language during Roman times, but nobody speaks today.
Over all, its something to think about. With destruction comes creation. Creation leads to aging, decay brings destruction and chaos. Thus history becomes a circle wherein the humans are mere puppets of their own mortality.
~Brehnt