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Originally Posted by Ducimus
I am starting to wonder if the conspiracy theorists have it right. If your bored, here's a 14 minute video made a year ago that play's connect the dots in a dramatic fashion, and perhaps morbidly entertaining to watch.
I passively linked to this video few pages ago, but since im bored i'll point it out directly. I have to give the author of this video some credit. Even if watching this with the metaphorical grain of salt (or the entire damn salt shaker), he seems plays connect the dots quite well. What I note is that it was made a year ago and seems to be somewhat accurate on current events. That said, it's still conspiracy theory. Even if it's not, there's not much to be done at this point except sit back and watch events unfold and hope for the best.
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I haven't finished watching the video yet, but it's plausible. Still a conspiracy theory, like you say, but a very well researched and presented one. I take it with a pinch of salt, as I do all conspiracy theories, and, like you say, even if it isn't one then there's not a great deal us little people can do.
In my opinion we are seeing the end of the American empire, it may culminate in a big war or it may come peacefully, but it is definitely coming. The 20th century was Americas century, the US had the prime spot from the early 1900s onwards, entering WWI at the closing stages so that the manpower bleed in the meatgrinder wasn't servere enough to cause economic problems in peacetime, and managing to get through all of WWII with scarcely a single bomb dropped on the industrial heartland, meanwhile Europe and Japan were both smashed into pieces through conflict and industrial centers turned into ruins. This has given the US a big advantage and it has taken it and run with it, but since the fall of Rome an Empire can scant last more than a century and we are seeing the transition take place. Before America, it was Britain that held that spot, from the early 1800s through to the end, we defeated the French, humbled other European powers and went all colonial on most of Southern Africa, and then we hit the brick wall that was World War One, and that was the end of our Empire. Before us, I would say that France held the spot, but then lost it in the bloody revolution of the late 1700s, and before France, I would have to say it was the Dutch, the 1600s are traditionally known as the Dutch Golden Age, and before them, probably the Holy Roman Empire, before the Thirty Years war blunted them. Before the HRE it was the Italians, and before them it was likely somewhere in Eastern Asia or South-Eastern Asia while Europe lingered in the Dark ages. At some point in between you have the Byzantines as a candidate, but we all know what happened to them.
Sad to say that most downfalls of Empires do occur around a drastic event, one can hope, if this should be the end of Americas century, that the drastic event was 9/11 and that there will be no more events of mass casualties, but I do fear that this will not be the case.
In terms of who the 21st century belongs to...hard to say, probably either South America, China or the Middle East. The next decade or two will tell.