Death and disease is gradual. From the day you are born you are already in the process of dying. It sounds very pessimistic but the truth is all of life is consumed by life. From the moment you are born your body has to fight off disease and cell damage from all kinds of internal and external threats. You are an opportunity for other organisms and while you are strong you can prosper and when you are weak you will suffer and ultimately die.
Countries are like people. They have a birth, an identity, and suffer from disease and pestilence that comes in the form of how their cells, which are the people, perform over a period of time.
The brain of a country is the political mechanism by which all decisions are made to keep the country going. The heart, lungs, muscles can be equated to education, science and the economy. It doesn't really matter how you make the association. What does matter is to look at the journey and to see what happens to a country over time.
The United States was born not as a baby, but a teenager who ran away from home, it's British home. With high ideals and reflection on the rights and wrong of the mother country, the United States grew up, fighting itself in the civil war and creating for itself a position of leadership in the world through it's strength and power built up over the years.
The United States had its mid life crisis in the mid 20th century with a number of wars and a reckoning of how to use or misuse its power amongst other nations. The Vietnam war drew a line making America less prone to get in fights that it couldn't win or walk away from with some sense of dignity.
In the beginning of the 21st century America started to suffer failures in many of its organs. America was not young anymore, it was becoming old and set in its ways. Becoming less able or willing to change. America was inflicted more from outside and inside forces that made it weaker and less able to perform.
Recently America started to suffer brain damage, its political apparatus was not functioning as in the past. The forces that kept America somewhat united started to turn against each other and made the body more susceptible to inner and outer attacks.
As a weak country the divided America, a body infirm and unable to stand up straight and proud becomes prey to internal and external threats.
America is becoming like an old senile man who is always angry, doesn't know what to do and overreacts to everything.
The enemies both domestic and foreign to our body are working to kill the dream we were told was ours to follow forever.
The only way out is a re-birth, a new America, a new dream, a renaissance.
In the new America we must be like new borns we must reeducate ourselves with the virtues of greatness and keep sacred the innocence and purity of youth.
History has shown that this process is painful but necessary. We must be prepared to suffer the consequences of rebirth even as our body struggles to stay alive in the old ways.
When will this happen? How will it happen? Nobody knows. But it will happen and it will take place. History has shown that this is the cycle of human civilization. This is the rule of Rise and Collapse. Rebirth will be the only way to ensure we will still have a United States of America.
If we do not undergo this process, as a country we will end up like all the other civilizations that did not follow this path and will be different countries with different people and different ways of life. There will be no United States.
