THeBlueCashew

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The American myth is fully exposed as hype, propaganda, hypocrisy and lies. Just as the British Empire before it.



But to predict the demise, or fall, of the West is nonsense.

Quote from: "Shen Li"I taped this documentary thinking it would be an objective discussion of the West's decline. Did they talk much about the West's demographic timebomb, ponzi scheme entitlements, pandering to well financed/organized NGO's, mortgaging future generations livelihoods with expensive promises today and immigration from alien cultures? Yes, but not nearly enough.



What will kill the West according to the "objective" producers of this propaganda film are the Cold War, "peak oil", climate change and the 2008 global financiaal crisis. BRIC countries are moving full steam ahead with industrialization and the biggest problems the West faces are the peak oil myth and climate change? That is what is causing the West's share of global wealth to rapidly shrink and debt to grow? The USA peaked in the late 1960's, but why deal with facts when you can blame it all on an event 5 years ago or the Cold War of 5 decades ago.



I knew it was more head in the sand, ignore the real problems and focus on the non-existent ones leftist BS when I saw Noam Chomsky. Can you believe that?  That geriatric old anarchist. About the only thing that wasn't total BS was the claim that deline is historically inevitable.  Anyway, the title does it a disservice and I recommend nobody waste their time watching this drivel.

Quote from: "Romero"  The world has hit peak oil. There are no more new oilfields. It's why everything now is sands, shale, deep sea and the Arctic.

Quote from: "Romero"And climate change has cost the US tens of billions of dollars this year.

Quote from: "Romero""Alien culture"? Who's an alien culture?

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Quote from: "Leopardsocks"There will be no dominant force in the world from here on in. No superpower throwing its weight around. Humanity has matured, and America has demonstrated that no nation has the merit and status to declare itself superior to all other nations.



The American myth is fully exposed as hype, propaganda, hypocrisy and lies. Just as the British Empire before it.



But to predict the demise, or fall, of the West is nonsense. England once dominated a major part of the world as an Imperial, colonising, military Goliath. No nation has ever controlled that much of that planet before or since...but those days are gone.



But is England a spent force? Not remotely. Neither will America be.



They can still bite hard if pushed. They may not be able to project imperialistic ambition, but they can still land a punch.



India and China may rise in economic terms, but it seems those that see a dragon rising aren't looking closely. If the west stops buying, China stops selling. And China has yet to confront the demands of its citizens who will want a share of the wealth...rest assured, the days of the communist dictatorship are numbered, and then China will fracture.

I agree the CCP dynasty will not last, but it would be false to assume the next dynasty will be modeled after the failed Western liberal democracy example. In fact, I think you have it backwards it is that model that cannot sustain itself. It is built entirely upon pandering for today instead of a vision. Think about it, the West is broke while responsible countries like China and Singapore are sitting on huge sovereign wealth funds. The West has ponzi scheme entitlements they know cannot continue without drastic chnge. When they do become insolvent how do you think their spoiled occupyesque populations will react? Do you think the West's selfish spoiled people will make sacrifices?



China and the East will outlast the irresponsible West.

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Islam is about as alien as it gets.

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Quote from: "Romero"Shen, you're a Westerner.

I live in the West, but I was born in China. I am not now nor will I ever supplant my superior pragmatic Asian values for your inferior rigidly ideological Western dogma. Just aint gonna happen boyfriend.