Watching the great experiment come down

“At this point the US is too far gone to help and a civil war seems inevitable, the very survival of the Founding Fathers’ great experiment is now in jeopardy.”

I often observe that people prefer pain to boredom. In fact, I myself sometimes accept a painful consequence just to keep the dullness away for a little bit longer. Looking around the world now I do wonder whether the state it has been in recently is because we’re bored of our toys and crave some excitement; it maybe the animal part of our brains wanting something to do.

We do seem to be an inherently violent species that comes from a long line of inherently violent species and that has not changed just because we’ve all put on jeans. In reality, the only thing that keeps a good portion of us in check is the rule of law, and it seems to be eroding worryingly fast in the United States of America. Street violence does not seem to be going away and wildfires give the country an almost apocalyptic look. Like a stone rolling down a hill, the chaos is only continuing to build momentum; except it's not just one stone rolling down the hill, but many. It does not take a genius to see that the US is about to be buried in a veritable avalanche of problems that it cannot deal with.

At this point the US is too far gone to help and a civil war seems inevitable, the very survival of the Founding Fathers’ great experiment is now in jeopardy.

For whatever reason and with whatever excuse there will always be war and there will always be peace; for as long as we all live it will cycle one after the other until we collectively find a more interesting toy to play with.

In this particular period of war, however, such an event would demolish the United States as leader of the Free World and likely remove its superpower status. If the country did come out whole after the wash, it would probably enter into a lengthy period of diplomatic and military isolation. The newly destabilised and significantly poorer world would be plunged into chaos until such a time that a new power asserts itself, likely China, and enforces its vision of what should be on the rest of us.

At least history students in the future won’t be so bored when it comes to this part of the course; they can all discuss what it would be like to be born into the end of peace and be half-grateful and half-disappointed that they missed all the excitement.