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I should clarify, perhaps, in case there is any confusion. I'm not suggesting myself that there will be collapse. That's why I used the word crumbling. I'm suggesting that America cannot maintain its current status (by this I mean internally and compared to the rest of the world) and that major changes are coming.
That looks like an interesting book, however. I can see the point about the "rise of the rest," and that these things are working concurrently.
If everyone else is rising, it will become more difficult for America to maintain its status quo. Just one aspect: where will all the cheap labour go to if everyone else is rising?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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