Back in the day there were big infrastructure projects, the interstate highway system, nuclear fission reactors, USA was once a leader in rail, but now it seems USA can’t build any infrastructure at all, HDI is lowering, life expectancy is not as high as most other OECD countries. Anyone know what happened to cause this?
seems unlikely, the empire was founded in 1776 and expanded non stop for 200 years and only began to decline in the last 50 or so seems to me it is impossible for this to be the cause because then the decline would have started at the latest in the mid 19th century.
True, but just as the emergence of private property and the state destroyed the gens, something happened to destroy the modern family unit. In its place is the individual, completely alienated from all concepts like community or family and increasingly even relationships in general. There’s only the neoliberal subject, constantly on their grind to build their brand. They don’t have the time, energy, or interest to groom their children to inherit the empire - in fact, they refuse to accept that they’re dying and work until the very end.