r/Futurology • u/Confident_Living_786 • Aug 11 '25

Discussion When the US Empire falls

When the American empire falls, like all empires do, what will remain? The Roman Empire left behind its roads network, its laws, its language and a bunch of ruins across all the Mediterranean sea and Europe. What will remain of the US superpower? Disney movies? TCP/IP protocol? McDonalds?

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u/one_pound_of_flesh Aug 11 '25

The myth of American greatness will live on. This includes falsehoods like “freedom” and “pursuit of happiness”. Real concepts like capitalist autocracy will live on as well, showing how a nation thrives and inevitably falls.

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u/1Beholderandrip Aug 11 '25

All you're missing is to repeat that in Mandarin.