The Age of Empire

Is the U.S. today like the British Empire of 100 years ago?

Both ruled the world.  Both had military superiority.  Both were involved in the new technology of the new century.

Yet both:
* Felt threatened by outside sources, including newly emerging powerful economic nations.
* Experienced a fall in real wages for the average citizen.
* Engaged in both a sense of complacency and arrogance towards the new century.

On this national complacency/arrogance, a quote from The Age of Empire, which Julie and I bought when in England this year, "The world neither progressed nor was it supposed to progress. In any case old wisdom and old ways were best, and progress implied that the young could teach the old."

What do you think? Is America in decline, or will America remain #1 in the world?

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[Suzanne Kart]

A little sidebar for you. I found a group of middle students who can write cursive! The near-extinct creatures live in Charlotte, MI.

Here's how I found them. I write this weekly column in the Bay City Times.
Anyway, a middle school teacher from Charlotte was vacationing in Bay City and saw my column about Christmas sweaters. Basically, I said that grown women should not wear any item of clothing that blinks and plays music. So she took it back to her class and had them write argumentative papers on it. And then she sent me all the essays! They are AWESOME. But what was even more interesting than their perspectives was that all but one were written in cursive (only one was typed).

It was like finding the lost city of Alantis!

Thought you'd find it interesting.

[FreeStoring]

hay!!
good project :)
senks :)