When viewing world history and analyzing the rise and fall of great empires, you notice patterns in socio-political behaviors. A mighty nation usually starts from obscurity overcoming all odds to raise its profile in power and economic progress. The citizens of a rising nation are tough and smart, striving to seek new opportunities and not allow failures to destroy them.
With the rise of the American Empire that seemed to be the case, since Americans took huge gambles to settle the Western regions of the country, establish New York as the world’s financial capital city, defeat Germany in World Wars I. and II., build massive infrastructure during the President Eisenhower Era and develop outstanding breakthroughs in the fields of science & technology.
American accomplishments stood tall as a shining beacon of greatness and hope for the world at large. But as with all empires , they do not and can not last forever. A new nation emerges to topple the powerhouse country, but when that happens, the empire that had been defeated had already entered a stage of inevitable and irreversible decline.
Great powers first get destroyed from within and when it’s weak another rising power can sweep in and rise to the top without much struggle. There was a time when Rome was the richest and most powerful city in the world, but a small horde of barbarians, known as Vandals, had conquered the city without much of a fight.
What happened? Well, the once great city of Rome no longer had stoic citizens willing to fight and sacrifice for the greater good of the community. Many Romans were leading corrupt and scandalous lives, attending parties where they would over-eat and rush to vomit at vomitoriums, so they could keep on binge eating.
Roman emperors, such as Nero, Caligula and so many others, were pursuing debauchery while the citizens supported that. Sex-crazy parties were all the rage in many Roman households. Accordingly, the Romans, who were once stoics had transformed into libertines and when that happens, an empire will be doomed for failure.
So it seems a similar fate awaits the United States. When the US was founded and had risen to power, higher education in the nation stood unsurpassed. The Ivy League schools in New England, big state colleges, Catholic universities and so many institutes of higher education nationwide were well-respected places for learning and training the next generation of leaders and the workforce.
But what is happening in today’s American collegiate life? Well, we have students including Letitia Chai, a senior at Cornell University, who delivered her thesis presentation while stripping down to her underwear and 28 other students in the classroom had followed suit.
You can read more about it in the Cornell Sun with a link here:
As reported by the Cornell Sun:
“Chai stripped down to her bra and underwear and walked back into the theatre room, where she performed the entirety of her thesis presentation in the same state of undress.
That night, she wrote a Facebook post about the incident, which at press time had over 1,050 likes and 165 shares. In the post, she invited the public to her College Scholar thesis presentation, which took place Saturday morning. Chai did not name Maggor or any other student in her original Facebook post.
In light of the attention garnered by Chai’s Facebook post, 11 of the 13 other students that were in class that day wrote a joint statement to The Sun, saying that they supported Chai’s protest but not her public account of the incident.”
Well when you see such embarrassing incidents in the US occurring on a frequent basis, why should anyone be surprised if China or Russia may later exploit the opportunity to surpass America as the world’s next most powerful superpower?
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