The Decay of America (and Australia)
The Systemic Implosion of a Nation’s Resilience
The Rot from Within
The end of an empire is rarely heralded by dramatic invasions or sudden economic collapses. Instead, its decline is a subtle, steady, corrosive implosion of the society’s foundational structure. The American experiment, once a beacon of dynamism and self-reliance, is succumbing to this internal decay.
In America today, you can see the decay in the physical toll of a poor diet and a sedentary culture, in the ashen complexion of a generation grappling with isolation and poor health. It manifests itself in the stark, deteriorating physical vitality of the populace, where vast numbers of people are grossly overweight, suffer from a variety of resultant health consequences, and struggle to simply walk. It echoes in the shriek of a child whose entire world is a digital rectangle wrenched from their frantic grasp by an overly stressed parent. It reveals itself in the alarming, misinformed convictions of a teenager whose worldview has been shaped more by internet “friends” and algorithms than by books or a coherent curriculum. These are the fractures of a society breaking down from the inside out.
