When I look around the world for ANY half-decent country which has both resource potential and cultural integrity potential to become the NEXT "shining city on the hill" for human-kind, the only contender I can see is Russia.
Please note, I am NOT saying Russia is some sort of ideal right now. Indeed, I specifically said "half-decent".
Does that mean I am a Russia booster? No, not really. I just look around at the alternatives and I don't see any, at all, which combine both the economics and the cultural integrity. China fails on cultural integrity, unless you think a great civilization can be built upon people who behave like ants and think organ harvesting is an export. China is just too alien, and culturally bankrupt to meet the "cultural integrity" test any time soon. China has lost its memory of its heritage: Confucius, and the Tao. It would be a CURSE upon mankind as a primary superpower.
So, pray it isn't China.
And where else do you see a country which has any fire in its belly, any strong "Christian"/Protestant moral and cultural heritage, and has been immunized against from WEF , Marxism/Socialism, Bidenism? The only really weakness I see for what Russia COULD become is currently its declining ethnic population. But every other country which has even half the cultural/intellectual potential of Russia, plus other prerequistes also has population decline...or even collapse. Maybe an argument could be made from India; I honestly don't know the country well enough...but I fear it is too multicultural to ever become culturally unified. Plus it severely lacks natural resources and is freaking hot and poor.
If you disagree with me, please lay out your case. I just can't see anything else. Possibly something eventually emerging in southern S. America. Everything else is polluted, or already spoiled, usually in more ways than one.
I think this could be an interesting topic to explore. If we can't argue for any future at all, I'd say we
have an even bigger problem. You want to argue for the US? Go ahead; make your case, but start off with how you are going to REMOVE both the "Wokism" and "entitlement" mentality any time in the next two hundred years. We're are SEVERELY polluted with stinking thinking; and at least half the population will fight to retain their "right" to live of other people via various entitlement schemes. And the national IQ in the US would be in COMPLETE collapse if not for the recent immigration from the Far East, including, but not limited to, China and India.
-Fiz
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