anart said:
griffin said:
This is all conjecture, but let's start with the statement itself: "USA heading for destruction."
The key word there, of course, is "destruction". That's not "decline", "defeat", or "decadence". It's very specific. We can think about what the word "destruction" means, or might mean, within the context of our superluminally channeled higher dimensional advisors.
First, it seems obvious that this statement doesn't refer to physical destruction caused by inexorable asteroid or cometary bombardment. That's the good news.
How did you come to this conclusion?
That's based upon an underlying assumption that the dynamics of asteroids and comets in the solar system are purely natural, physical processes not directed or influenced by intelligent actors. If that's not the case, then we can return cosmic bombardment to the set of possibilities, but directed by some higher intelligence.
The implications of "USA heading for destruction" are that (a) the USA has gone too far wrong to possibly recover from a self-inflicted chain of events ending with total catastrophe, or (b) the USA has so irretrievably offended, or attracted, some higher beings that they're going to see to its destruction either as punishment or entertainment, or perhaps both. If (b) is the case and the posited higher beings can throw asteroids and comets with enough accuracy to destroy the USA, then cosmic bombardment is back on the table among the possible causes of destruction.
anart said:
griffin said:
The context seems to imply geopolitical and/or economic and social destruction, based upon the subsequent comment, "Passed the point when anything could possibly be done to change the outcome." That's the bad news.
Again, not sure how you came to this conclusion. You seem to be limiting possibilities with these assumptions.
Again, if we assume cosmic bombardment is excluded, then that leaves ordinary causes of destruction. I just reclassified the old classical categories of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Pestilence, War, Famine and Death) into the more modern categories of geopolitical and/or economic and social destruction. (In the classical list Death seems redundant, so I'd replace it with either Usurious Interest or just Private Banking.) Of course geopolitical destruction includes nuclear war, but also disastrous conventional war, with loss of access to energy resources. In a similar way, economic and social destruction include, for the USA, loss of reserve currency status, possible hyperinflation, deep economic depression, famine, riots, martial law, breakdown of transportation and social order, outbreaks of disease epidemics, and so on. Basically, anything from the breakup of the USA into regional nations through devolution into individual states, down to Mad Max anarchy.