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A Response From “The Author”

April 6, 2009 | 1 Comment

Thank all of you for your thoughtful and, for the most part, well written comments about my article on the disintegration of the United States. I would like to respond briefly, and since I am “the author” I can do so as a blog.

I recommend that you read Joe Garreau’s book, The Nine Nations of North America, or Robert Kaplan’s book, An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future. An underlying and unstated thesis in both is that the United States is a land of contradictions comprised of quite diverse people, united by common interests, which resolves its differences relatively peacefully. A delicate equilibrium. During the past two generations, as the system has aged and adapted to new and unforeseen conditions and circumstances, this equilibrium has become increasingly unstable and difficult to maintain. I base this conclusion on my readings and extensive travels around the country over the past several years in connection with my employment.

I suspect that the origins of this increasing instability lie in the country’s engagement in the world following the Second World War. As long as the United States remained aloof or at least disengaged, the people could pursue their unique democratic experiment. Now the country, or at least the “Intellectual Class”, feels the need to conform to international norms and standards, all under the rubric of “globalization”. This attempt to play world leader and model to emulate has placed an unbearable burden upon the people’s shoulders. As a result they are no longer residents of the shining city on the hill (the New Jerusalem) but clueless dim bulbs in a suburb filled with foreclosure signs.

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  1. a person on September 22nd, 2009 4:57 am

    This comment will probably get worldhistory.org banned in China but i have to say this. China is becoming ridiculously paranoid as the world expo closens they have banned hundred of websites and pictures seemingly at random from the internet ranging from facebook to websites about the end of the cold war. After the riots in Urumqi (north western china) the government has been restricting web acess and foreign journalists. Let me point out some facts on what happened there were riots in the city of Urumqi which were then put down by the police (around 300 people were killed) within a day the government closed websites like facebook and twitter and cutting of web acess to that area of China. This is my theory after the riots in which the vigurs killed maybe 50 people the police came through and brutally murdered with the help of the Han chinese around 250 vigurs. the Chinese news that day reported nothing but propoganda on that province talking about how much china has helped them. As foreign journalists began to be able to get the truth China instantly closed down the right of the journalists to be there. Just a few weeks later the government suddenly annouces that the vigurs have attacked the han chinese again this time using vicous needle attacks with which they injected people with chemicals and such. This was completly fictional these attacks probably didnt even happen and if they did they were orcastrated by the Chinese government to make people dislike the vigurs and make them look like extremists.

    This is probaly my last post on these blogs and i just wish to say goodbye until i move back to a free western country (i may like communism but i think more can be achieved through the truth)

    Good bye worldhistory.org its been a blast

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