Reply #3: The Empire will die [View All]

[nadinbrzezinski]

but what is starting to go away is the sense that we are unique or special. That is what is starting to die, and it goes hand in hand with being a very reluctant empire.

Mind it, this is still prevalent in the popular culture, part and parcel of what it is to be American at a basic level... but once academics start speaking a different language it will trickle down into the masses... the question is how long.

Now as the US as am Empire, it will die, all Empires do, and in their death throes usually there is a lower standard of living, that might be temporary or permanent, depends on each Empire. This ranges from oh Rome that went the way of the dodo and the dark ages... all the way to the Russian Empire, when the USSR dissolved it was rough, and it still is rough for lower classes. But in general most people have been able to more or less maintain where they were.