My second post on Patterico’s. (Yeah, like you couldn’t see that coming!) Originally heaved at the roiling masses on May 28th, 2005. ~ That slogan of the U.S. Army — “an Army of one!” — has always set me to……

Without rancor, I believe that American exceptionalism might facilitate that. Not advocating here, just speculating.

Many Americans would also be tempted to retreat into isolationism, so I would like to see a similarly tech-enabled discussion of an isolationist future. Not advocating that either, mind you.

The first jihadi nuke strike against the US will probably resolve this question pretty quickly.

Too bad some US urban population will likely have to be sacrificed before we decide who we really want to be when we grow up, and realize that:
1. We ARE the 800 lb gorilla.
2. We DO need to define who we are for ourselves and everyone else.

I think I recall someone recently saying “America - fuck yeah!” Maybe they were prescient. It would probably be a better world than the one we may get, the one whose motto is “13th century - fuck yeah!”