Empires rise and fall - we have known this, ever since empires appeared, a few thousand years ago.
This seems to be part of human nature. We want to build things up, and tear things down. Without thinking much, about which we are doing - or why we are doing it.
The classic example was the Roman Empire, and the Romans were typical - they had no idea what they were doing, overall. If the Empire was getting better. or getting worse.
They were not capable of planning - and didn't seem to want to. They wanted to do whatever they were doing - as thoroughly as they could. Whether it was up or down, didn't seem to matter.
In our time, we haven't changed much. We went on a building boom, a couple of centuries ago - building railroads and factories everywhere. And then destroyed them (and the people also) in a series of bloody wars, where millions were killed.
At the time, all this seemed perfectly logical - what else could they do?
Americans are now destroying America - without being aware of this, at all.
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