There is an interesting idea being floated around called Victory Disease. In essence, Victory Disease means that what goes up must come down. Whenever an individual or group makes a major military victory, they can be so overcome by hubris that they consider all their adversaries to be inconsequential, which leads to some disastrous consequences. Some famous examples of this include Napoleon at Waterloo, or more recently the U.S. at 9/11. The U.S. was so full of itself after the “fall” of Communism, that it did not consider Islamic militants in the Middle East to be much of a threat.
What I will be talking about next is a concept of my own devising, and any and all comments are welcome. The U.S. used to be what one could consider “up.” However, now we are going “down.” The signs are unmistakable. China and Japan have both been making considerable leaps in the international market in recent decades, U.S. currency has less and less value when compared to other currencies, and our political structure is being weakened from within. I could expound on these topics for several more pages, but you get the idea.
So, how do we, as patriotic Americans, avoid this? Well, the only way to stop from going “down,” is to get rid of our enemies completely. The only way to do idea morally is to make them our friends. The only way to make such alliances permanent is to absorb the other nations into a single, conglomerate, world-wide nation. This step would involve many benefits to all of mankind. However, what I would like comments on is how we can do that. What can the president do to do this? What can the U.N. do to do this? etc. tell me your ideas
Thursday, October 05, 2006
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Were you trying to refute my point? Seems you were just rephrasing my argument. Besides, you didn't define a or b and x was defined only obliquely.
Hubris -> rotting wihin
...Anders, i don't think a simple quadratic equation can describe civilization. while it might look vaguely like a parabola, you have to take into account that civilizations don't go up or come down smoothly. And, as the civilization starts off, it is probably going to look more like either an exponential increase or a line with a positive slope.
and secondly, how can you even guess that "America will not fall, it will be subsumed into history"? You say we are based on capitalism and freedom, but aren't a lot of countries based on these principles?
please answer that
What the hey is "rate of power" and for that matter, what is y
"How powerful you are" Then what is power? How is that a variable?
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