Did anyone here predict this time last year that the US would be in its current state? Because I sure didn't. Everything seems to be going downhill really fast. The decay seems exponential rather than linear. So with that being said, do you think the collapse could come soon? 2 years? next year? Maybe even before the end of this year? It would honestly be shocking if the US went from business as usual to civil war in the space of a few years.
There was a post the other week about how it took three hundred years for Rome to collapse, like 500 for the Byzantines, several hundred for the Ottoman...
Ours may not be a quick collapse, just a general eroding of the luxuries (materially and politically) we once enjoyed until the America we recognized disappears
70 for the Soviet Union, 50ish for Yugoslavia, less than 20 years for Weimar Germany, even shorter for Syria, etc. Stuff happens faster now than in the past, due to the accelerated rate of communication and production.
America has only existed for around 250 years, and it only reached its current terrorial extent around 140ish years ago. America is a very very new country and so because the systems are not as ingrained I dont think it will take ages to collapse.
It's also easier for a modern economy and infrastructure to collapse compared to, say, the economy and infrastructure of the Roman Empire. Maintaining our current living standards is harder, and a far greater percentage of our population would be able to feed themselves if the supermarket closes.
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