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View Poll Results: What is the trajectory of American Civilization? | |||
We're ascending and I think we're a long way from our peak. |
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31 | 16.76% |
We're ascending, but we will peak within the next two or three generations? |
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4 | 2.16% |
We're in a stable state and likely won't decline. |
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10 | 5.41% |
We're in a stable state but are headed toward decline. |
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34 | 18.38% |
We peaked in the last two or three generations, and we're descending. |
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95 | 51.35% |
We've pretty much been descending since Plymouth Rock. Our ruin is imminent. |
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9 | 4.86% |
I don't really following the grand sweep of history. |
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2 | 1.08% |
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Your view of ascending may differ from others.
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What's your definition?
I'm an optimist. I think American civilization is still on an upward path at a steady state. Our science is gamebreaking on a technology and science front, and our culture and language are winning on an international front. It probably wouldn't hurt to solve our fiscal, energy, and obesity problems, but those solutions will come.
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You know, all that new age bullshit. |
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Peak-aboo
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Our IDEALS, where we intend to go, what we intend to uphold, WHO we intend to be in the modern world... that's a whole nother ballgame, America is losing the moral high ground with each passing day, IMO. |
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Sounds like a teenager to me.
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Sounds like the chewy taste of truth to me.
America is starting to believe its own hype, like Pete Carroll writ way large IMO, its time to recognize that while our national charter is and always will be the world ideal... we don't always hold to our own "deeply held" values. I still choose America over the others, but we need to be held to our own standards these days, IMO. |
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Its a fringe subject and I wont bother this thread with it GG, but I'm not convinced we don't have manned/unmanned, advanced propulsion craft already ruling the hell out of nearby space.
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America has nukes and two oceans for defense so I wouldn't worry about being invaded.
We are on a slow decline that could be reversed if we have the government step back and start undoing the chains it has been put on the productive impulses of the citizenry. We aren't going to go out with a bang like the European powers with two World Wars but probably slide into the position that the UK, France, and Germany are in now. Still a power but not a superpower. |
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