Disintegrating society

OVER THE PAST six thousand years civilizations have destroyed themselves by wasting their futures on indrediblly large acts of stupidity and pride. It has happened repeatedly, as if being an unbreakable habit of human organization. The Mesopotamian civilization of six thousnad years ago in modern day Iraq,, the ancient Egyptian civilization, the ancient Greeks, Ancient Roman, the Ottoman Empire, as well as the Mayans, the Aztecs, and ancient Indian cultures all surrendered to their own greed, vanity, and stupidity, what the ancient Greeks called "hubris nemesis". Corrupt, inept, vainglorious narcissistic leaders were placed in positions of power. Fear, anger, and ever dwindling resources were channeled into useles wars of conquest and empire expansion, with bloated military establishments sucking up the national wealth. All empries become over extended, trying to govern over more land area and people than is possible with limited resources. As wealth is concentrated into fewer and fewer hands, the tax base shrinks and eventually withers away, leaving the state without sustenance. The ruling elite wealthy retreat into encloaves, spearated from those lower classes over whom they exercise power. Meanwhile, the lower classes endure increasing misery, hunger, and poverty, but receive no help from above. These patterns of collectvie behavior assert and resasert themselves time and again throughout hsitory, and are all in evidence in the United States today. It can easily be seen that the U.S.A., still so young, is already in a state of irreversible decline. History cannot ever and never does "repeat itself". The names and faces and dates and precise circumstances always change and are always new and different. But old familiar paterns recur, and, as Mark Twain famously said, history "rhymes". In our situation, climate change is advancing at a rate far beyond what any scientist predicted, and it now seems obvious that sea level rise, chaotic, extreme weather, including huge storms, widespread drought and all the other climate related disasters now confronting the world, are only going to increase in the next few years, while the nations of the world do nothing other than make promises and give pretty speeches, as Grett Thunberg recently pointed out. The United States is not going to reform its economic system to provide opportunity for everybody and a reasonable distribution of wealth, it is not going to rememdy the epidemic of hopelessness and poverty we see everywhere in America, and it is not going to start choosing intelligent leaders with actual solutions to probesm to lead us out of the darkness. The darkness is already far too advanced. In all past cases, the collapsed civilization was reborn into something new and different. The Roman empire is now modern Italy, Greece still exists as a nation, and Egypt is a modern nation which has widespread poverty and tends to regard its glorious past with more pride than its present. There will be a future to the United States. But it will have little in common with the great American empire we have grown to know and love.