Quote: (06-06-2014 04:26 AM)N°6 Wrote:
Personally, I think the US is experiencing creep and it won't be in existence by the end of this century. The rate at which the traditional elements to its society are being marginalised is actually difficult to comprehend.
Your prediction is pessimistic but I can see it as a possibility. We're reaching a historical perfect storm here that signals eventual cultural and economic decline.
Economically:
Wages have been stagnant since the 70's and have not kept up with cost of living at all. Women entered the workforce to counter the withering of household income..and then came the feminist movement as a result.
The country has an immense inequality gap and the politics as a result has become more corrupt, irrational, and dogmatic. Too much concentrated big money influences democracy in a negative way. The engine of prosperity and stability ie. the middle class is being crushed under a bootheel. If you look at third world countries they all have this type of inequality gap and corruption in politics.
Higher education has become a racket. Education costs have outgrown inflation by a large percentage and the degrees are more worthless than ever. A person of average intelligence with a college degree will be getting a poorly paid average chump job that a person with no degree could get. They will also be left with a lot of debt and no social mobility.
The race to the bottom of the labor pyramid will continue until all wages for the middle and lower classes are depressed even more.
Culturally:
Women entered the workforce in mass numbers back in the 70's onward. This resulted in a lot of homes with a lack of parenting and what we've seen is a proliferation of personality disorders and dysfunctionality coming from generation X and the Millenials. The divorce rate also started to increase when women's lib movement coincided with the labor movement of the 70's. Since all parents are busy working now we are creating generations of kids with NO parents at home. Every generation claims the next one is trash but I can't think of a moment in U.S. history (or any other time in world history) where kids grew up without guiding parental figures in their life at all and have this turn out to be a positive thing. Kids are now raised by pop culture and psychiatric pills.
Many American cities are well on their way to looking like Mogadishu. Detroit, Baltimore, etc.. this is what happens when the middle class dies out and all you're left with is angry unemployed youth, with no parents, raised on trash pop culture.
Everyone has become more selfish, angry, and depraved. There is no spirit or cultural inclination to work together anymore. It's every race, gender, religious, and political affiliation all out for themselves. America has become Thunderdome.