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It's occurred to me recently that empire and expansion are counterproductive. This might have been true forever, but it's observably true with no counterexamples in modern times. Anybody spreading their influence after 1500 was ensuring that their values would suffer and die more completely, and be bastardized by billions.
The best result possible is you turn the entire planet into a pile of shit vaguely flavored like your glory days. That's basically what we live in now, an Anglo inspired turd of a global society.
And in that world, America is the ultimate overflowing cultural septic tank
(More charitably, the biggest winners suffered the most from their success, and the real success stories are regional powers)

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There is no way to progress beyond irreconcilable contradiction, it will sow the seeds of failure in any system that proceeds, because one is essentially proceeding from false premises. Such contradiction arises precisely because of a blind rush forward or a refusal to acquiesce to limitation; either dynamic will incorporate false premises, instead of principled reconciliation within the strictures of human nature and relations, as defined by the historically-wrought heuristics of pre-modern thought.
Faced with such motives, the only response is "reaction", or rather correction.
The rationalists and their spawn instituted an unceasing upward spiral of societal complexity, they commodified man and his forms, they imposed their idiot pride on the naturally-ordered divine structure, and their world will end in fire as a result. Those who can see past the mutilated humanity molded to sustain such goals are not surprised by the fallout; neither by the ultimate failure, nor the seething, febrile addiction of the adherents to further mutilation. Dostoevsky's forecasted destruction of the Crystal Palace by disillusioned future man has been rendered obsolete by the bumbling operators of its current effigy and their pretentious inability to live by their own doctrines; by their failure to predict the consequences for climate and fertility, he is proven more immediately correct.
This perspective is the farthest thing from drowning, it is sanity.