It’s very simple. There are only two possible futures for the United States of America (because when I say America, I hope it is obvious I don’t mean Canada or Mexico).
In the first future, our ever-increasing debt, foreign entanglements across the globe, growing class inequality at home, a shrinking manufacturing base and increased reliance on foreign imports, combined with more and more corporate-owned news dumbing down the information we receive, leading to an apathetic, uneducated voting population, in conjunction with growing climate problems from global warming and an over-reliance on foreign oil, all lead to the slow unraveling of American power, until we are forced to retract our imperial presence around the world, leading to decreased relevance globally, reducing our overall quality of life until we end up with a fragmented, largely impovershed nation, governed by a handful of wealthy families who occasionally are forced to suppress violent uprisings by retracting all of our civil liberties until we are essentially another run-of-the-mill, 2nd world dictatorship.
But that is only one possibility.
In the second future, we figure out how to recreate dinosaurs from DNA trapped in tree sap and, using creative gene splicing, create a race of super-intelligent dino-poets who lead us into a new golden age of enlightenment as we traverse the country on the backs of gentle brontosauruses, drinking honey tea, and reciting verses from Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
This is all obvious.
What isn’t clear is which path we’ll take. In truth, there is no way to know. The future is mysterious that way.
One thing that is for sure, there is no possible scenario in which current US currency will hold any value, so if ever there was a time to invest in 1992 Donoraus Baseball cards, now is that time. Luckily, I happen to have a TON of 1992 Donoraus Baseball cards in my parent’s basement, and they could be yours for a reasonable fee.
Only serious inquiries please.
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