When a nation’s discourse becomes consumed by the scale of impending disasters and the austerities required to avert them, it is a sure sign that the nation has lost faith in itself. Such a society ceases to imagine triumph; it prepares instead for managed decline. The language of sacrifice, when unaccompanied by the vision of renewal, signals not resilience but resignation.
A flourishing nation is, above all, a confident one. Its public imagination is animated not by fear, but by possibility. It speaks not of collapse, but of creation—of the achievements its people will forge, the frontiers they will cross, and the obstacles they will overcome with skill and determination. Optimism, in this sense, is not naïveté; it is civilizational vitality. Without it, decline becomes not merely possible, but inevitable.
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Has there ever been such a nation? The US possibly in its formation, though beset by ethical controversies which almost tore it apart and a hierarchy forming afterwards. Israel possibly also. Maybe Russia during the reforms of Peter the Great, though the collectivist mentality there was difficult to challenge. Now the 'woke' culture has taken over. We're trying to rewrite the past instead of focusing on the future.
Hermione
Argentina is a recent and real example of what is said in this article.
Argentina is a recent and real example of what is said in this article.
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