It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.
What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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