11.9: What Lies Ahead? A New World Order? PT
11.9.2: Inevitable Changes
If we take a trip through history, we see that the dominance of a particular nation, group of nations, or a culture always comes to an end. The decline can take hundreds of years (Toynbee 1946). With today’s life so speeded-up that the future invades the present, the decline of U.S. dominance could come fairly quickly—although certainly not without resistance and bloodshed. Ruptures among the present arrangements of power make it difficult to foresee the shape of future global stratification. Certainly, though, it will include an ascendant China. We can also be certain that a small group of wealthy, powerful people, whose main goal is to continue its own dominance, will direct whatever alignments are formed. At times, it will look as though this process is leading to a one-world government. At other times, it will appear that the world is about to erupt in flames. We are certainly living in exciting geopolitical times.
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