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As [the United States] becomes the center of gravity of the world, it is developing that culture, which is inevitably barbaric. America is a place where the right wing despises Muslims for their faith and the left wing despises them for their treatment of women.
— George Friedman, The Next 100 Years. Here I thought America was already in the decadent former-world-power stage. Friedman says we’re still in the barbaric stage with the decadence at least a century away. I can’t tell if I’m surprised or relieved.
