>>4974358https://media.8ch.net/file_store/727b67c76f8b51f95740cf84c75e36caf855ecff74e1a44c90bb17e6a680c7b2.jpg

>The ONE NATION which has attempted to set an example for all of humanity?

Anons have to understand what that example is. Bill Cooper seems to explain it really well. Vidrelated meant more for >>4974358

as THIS Republic was set up to see whether MAN could rule himself, instead of the kings and lords who ruled while claiming the auspices of God.

The American Experiment…

>>4974402

reincluding the original response to >>4974358 due to weird copypasta error.

>>4974425

>My wife a distant, forlorn hope, and my home a vagrant wasteland. The nation is dead. I have no interest in failed, rotten states.

From The Fate of Empires….

>In a surpring manner, 250 years emerges as the average length of national greatness.

How old is America?

2019-1776= 243…

>>4974447

Kek.. one of the first memes i'd made here, long, long ago.. such strange times.

>>4974450

No, only Hesse book I'd read so far was Siddhartha. Only glass bead game i'd played was Wei-qi.

>>4974465

>>4974450

Which, from the synopses i've read, Go might as well be a stand-in for the glass-bead game as far as I can tell.. As it was one of the pinnacle achievements of historical Japanese learn-ed culture.

>>4974483

Regardless, the whole Fall of Empires bit raises an interesting point that America is rather close to the average length of nations… and considering where things stand, and how precisely America would fall into the explained age of decadence category, would take a miracle to keep everything together without falling toward some sort of balkanization.

History tends to repeat itself.

>>4974632

God bless you and keep you from harm, this day and forever.