Is The American Empire Going To End?

On the movie the 4 horsemen is it said that the government is now govern by the big corporations. According to the film the 4 horseman are: War, Famine, Conquest, and Death. As time has advance the system has change, the WWII was the point in history when the U.S. became the new Rome (Roman Empire). As every empire through history it will come to and end, it is known that all empire have similar traits that define it. The empire is divide into 6 ages: pioneers, conquest, commerce, affluence, intellect and finally decadence. The film predicts that the U.S. empire is on the decadence age because of the luxury stuff that is now on the market, the big different between poor and rich, and the devaluation of money. The decadence of currency represent the falling of and empire and on 2008 the U.S. had and economic crisis. Right now for every one dollar there is 5.25 dollars of debt. This make that 97% of the world's money is debt. This factors explained on the film show a part of society that most of the people unknown, the use of sports and different TV shows are used as curtain for all of this concerning fact. 

If the U.S. empire falls as the movie says it will have a huge impact on the society I leave in. The country that I leave in, Colombia has a big influence of the U.S. government, the TLS (the Free Trading Deal) the military bases located on different part of the U.S. represent some of the influence the country has in Colombia. There are two ways in which an empire can fall: it could die from oldness and die peacefully, but it could also die in a violent way trying to survive. If it decides to die in the violent way, my country could be use as a products supplier, by saying this I refer in the way that they can take our products like land, vegetation, food to supply their need. After this happens the next empire will try to rise and in order to this to happen the countries must fight in order to see who is the most powerful, this could bring the WWIII and the world can become a complete chaos. The value of contemplating this is that if this happens thy must have back-up plan if everything falls apart. It is also need this to try to foresee this from happening. 

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MLA Citations:

Four Horsemen. Dir. Ross Ashcroft. Perf. Joseph Stiglitz, Noam Chomsky, John Perkins, Herman Daly and Max Keiser. YouTube. YouTube, 13 Sept. 2013. Web. 24 Apr. 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU>.