| Terri: | America zzz alive! Why duh requiem? |
| Tim: | Kuz in many ways it's dieing. . . dying . . . & ecologically drying. |
| Kris: | The empire has reached its zenith. Militarily it's unmatched & it has much ah the world's wealth. |
| Chris: | The shape of the average American belly is a good metaphor for the nation as a whole: there's a lot of overstretch 'n lard. Consumption is out of balance with production. And in the long run, that's nut sustainable. |
| Tim: | There is a physics to the rise and fall of all nations. At this point in time America is on the way down. Some of its concepts were noble, but in many ways most civilizations are too short-sighted. |
