Decline of a country

As I watch the US elections so many thoughts go through my head-the constant drumbeat that it is the greatest country in the world, the best, the most advanced and most progressive  on the planet. I hate to burst the illusion of anyone who thinks that-for it is far from that in many ways. In no area is the US #1 any more , I shall not go down numerous different  lists –but my intention is not to put the US down, but point to the fact that countries have their zenith and decline. Throughout history this has been so, and the US is on its way down faster than anyone can imagine, unless some miracle happens-which never has in history, neither will it now. It is a minute past midnight already!

The United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority. 

The dumbing down of the US is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, especially a kind of celebration of ignorance –when celebrities like rapper JayZ , Katy Perry, and Beyonce are the determinants of the US elections for the greatest nation on earth-it is shameful and a travesty –if not a joke.

When candidates are nor determined by their honesty, integrity and abilities, but by how much money they can fundraise from special interest or steal-and lie their way into public office ; it is the total moral decline of a country into the abyss. When whistleblowers come out with the truth and are exiled or killed –like Julian Assange , Edward Snowdon and many more who bravely try and document the corruption of the planet for posterity, for maybe one day future generations may learn from the mistakes, and the power hunger that is destroying man.

One sees the decay of civilization that is in the hands of the elite handful of few-the number being a mere "elite 8 families" in number, hungry for power and control-amoral and soulless dark souls . The question I ask-why. Will they take it to the grave like the Egyptians thought? Shame on humanity for allowing it, shame on us.