I get that reality sucks, but that doesn’t make your delusions correct :3c
edit: this is specifically about the US, hence the reference to the “liberal experiment” as it was once called. Yes, many other countries are not past the point of no return, but very few are not in grave danger.
I took it as more along the lines of “the end is always near”. One of the things people often get wrong about history is the unspoken assumption that any outcomes are guaranteed. We don’t know how things will turn out, and neither did people like Smedley Butler. We all have a duty to be active participants in history, and the more we understand the context, the better we can do so.
My exact point, thank you.
It’s not that the end is near. People will continue to live on after this. This is no apocalypse, only the end of a great many people’s lives.
What has ended is the post WWII American empire. Life will go on, but the end of the world as we know it is already here.
You’re telling me? I called it four years ago, I’m already out.