Inflection

A short history of the American Century: I figure it began when the Doughboys came home from WWI; ramped up during the super-heated Jazz Age, faced a reckoning and found it's heart when FDR faced down the Depression; literally exploded during WWII; cruised into overdrive with the mid-century expansion; lost its optimism on Dealey Plaza;; lost its way in the jungles of Vietnam; lost its faith as Nixon lied; turned it's back on the masses as Reagan trickled down; surrendered to fear during Clinton's mass incarceration; perpetrated a bloody fraud of a war for Dick Cheney's profit, and finally crumbled under the insane ravings of a celebrity megalomaniac. And now, here we are at the ignominious end of the American Empire. One short century. Maybe Michael Stipe feels fine, but I don't.

The American Empire is over. We are at an inflection point. Which way will we fall?