From: Patton@yabbs
To: @@yabbs
Subject: re: Collapse? I think not...
Date: Sat Jul  2 14:14:05 1994

Sorry about the lateness of this response.  The problems that you have 
cited as those that will bring impeneding doom onto the US (outside of the 
ultramodern examples of pc and mc) have plagued mankind since the first 
divisions of labor and the birth of the city state.  Even during the glory 
days of the Republic there were riots and even a slave revolt.  The U.S. 
still enjoys a great amount of social cohesion when compared to the rest 
of the world;  ie Latin America, central Eurasia, not even mentionaing 
Africa.  Read Paul Kennedy's _Rise and Fall of the Great Powers_ a 
brillant history of yesterday's empires (while fundamentally failed in 
predictions) for a historical basis of global power dynamics.