The Changing World Order

[YoursTruly]

It's not a new world order. There's nothing new about it. This same exact thing, for the same exact reasons, has been going on since governments were created. Since history almost always repeats itself, one might say that the US is in it's last throws. <<Stupid analogy, but it fits.

As much as the author breaks it down, it's still suitable for surface level thinkers. Sorry

 

[night_son]

It's not a new world order. There's nothing new about it. This same exact thing, for the same exact reasons, has been going on since governments were created. Since history almost always repeats itself, one might say that the US is in it's last throws. <<Stupid analogy, but it fits.

As much as the author breaks it down, it's still suitable for surface level thinkers. Sorry

Every human being since human beings came into existence has been born clinging to the precipice of the whims of mad and powerful rulers. These ledges widen and narrow depending on the stability of the nation of birth and those nations bordering it, but the situation of simply living and surviving remains fluidly precarious for the rest of our lives.

Arriving into the world in modern day America is no different than say, having been born in ancient Rome. Everything depends on the wind direction and whether or not one can stay upwind of both minor and major "brush fires". We do not ask to be born into any given nation or civilization, but those nations and their rulers sure as hell demand, from sentience, that we walk the narrow line of obedience to every government edict—or else.

We Americans have had ourselves one hell of a good run of world dominance and relative stability, going back five or six or more generations. In the lull between global wars, depressions, natural disasters and other life-taking calamities, our near ancestors were able to dig their fingernails into those widening and narrowing ledges and produce subsequent generations of offspring, including . . . us.

However, now it seems those tarnished but golden eras of American empire are fading and the ledges we depend on, cling to are becoming narrower than ever before. In many ways we humans are far, far more fragile than eggshells, and when we break—we break in the millions. When the powers that be decide worldwide chaos outshines draconian order, when new powers fight to emerge from their cocoons of second world development, it is then that those narrow ledges disappear completely, we all lose our grip and we all plummet into a great, yawning abyss.