Disintegration : indicators of the coming American collapse / Andrei Martyanov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martyanov, Andrei, 1963- author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

United States--Foreign relations--21st century.

United States.

International relations.

United States--Politics and government--21st century.

United States--Economic conditions--21st century.

Economic conditions.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : Clarity Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The United States is undergoing a profound and radical transformation, all features of which point to the fact of its departure at an accelerated rate from its largely self-proclaimed status as a global hegemon. The United States has lost ground in every single category that defines the power and status of a nation in relation to its rivals. This book delves into the reasons for a catastrophic decline of the American nation, addressing a range of factors from the economic (especially energy), to cultural, technological and military factors. America's deindustrialized economy is now deeply affected by what can only be described as a massacre of her small and middle-size businesses and the implosion of the US commercial aerospace industry. America's only driver of real growth, the shale oil industry, is facing realities which may make the Great Depression pale in comparison. Disintegration also seeks answers to the precipitous moral and professional decline of the always mediocre qualities of the American elites, from the corridors of political power to those of the military and business, now spiraling out of control. More alarmingly, the trend also points to the possibility of the actual physical disintegration of the United States as a unified entity--whether the divisions are ethnic or ideological. The most profound fault line is cultural--between the Coastal self-proclaimed elites backed by the secular, liberal media and deep state, who promote the most radical ideologies as it concerns gender and race, and the working class majority whom the former polemicize as deplorables, Christian fundamentalists, white supremacists, and climate and science denialists. Investigating these factors sheds light on America's future which holds very little promise for the country which had once proclaimed itself to be a shining city on the hill. The American collapse is not just coming, we are presently experiencing it. How can we deal with a catastrophe which is unfolding before our very eyes? Disintegration lays out some possibilities.

Contents:

Consumption

Affluenza

Geoeconomics

Energy

Making things

Western elites

Losing the Arms Race

Empire über alles

including Americans

To be or not to be

Conclusion: Not exceptional, not free, not prosperous

not America?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 20, 2021).

ISBN:

9781949762358

1949762351

Publisher Number:

40030595713

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.