This isn't meant to provoke fear reactions, American's have always thrived on competition, and it isn't David vs. Goliath... yet. Think of it as a grand opportunity that you want to capitalize on as soon as possible.
I feel that American's have been living with a passive sense of entitlement for far too long, coasting on the work of our forefathers. That being American intrinsically makes you better. Our declaration of independence tells us the truth, "all men are created equal". We need to work hard and prepare hard if we want to continue to flourish. Not outspend our earning potential and have negative savings.
We are 300 million people and expect to be tops in everything that we care about. The stark reality is the word has 6,500,000,000 people in it and we're not the majority of the population. We're not going to have the best of everything forever. The world's standard of living is going to rise and ours isn't necessarily going to be tops. In fact the best thing we can do is make sure our country's political system stays as free as possible.
I feel one of the main reasons we've been able to stay at the top in so many ways is the smartest and brightest of every other country has wanted to come to the US. I think we're going to see a shift away from that trend and those same people will want to stay in their home countries. And we're only going to perpetuate that trend by closing our borders in a blind fear of terrorism. Pretty soon the rest of the world will go "uhh okay, like it matters what you do anymore America, do whatever, so long as India and China are going full steam we don't care".
Our country is focused on our national security and monitoring it's own populate while the rest of the world is quickly accelerating beyond us.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
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i don't pretend to have absorbed much of what i (never) learned in history class, but i do remember reading about the fall of empires that had been world powers for centuries and thinking 'wow, we're only 200 years old--could the U.S. someday be a war-torn has-been?' a U.S. 'fall' may not come in the form of some rebellious conquering, but i think, as you've suggested, an 'emerge and replace' situation doesn't seem as hard to imagine. and the result is the same. maybe some day people will count their blessing that they were born in pakistan and not in the U.S. (i don't know if you were talking about that extensive of a U.S. decline, but that's where my imagination goes with it.)
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