The Fall of the American Empire
Hello my Chinese girlfriend,
I have spent the week reading science history. The more I read, the more I find most science graduates don’t know what they are talking about. They can’t even explain how every day phenomena work to a layperson. The physics is not weird. The explanations provided for the physics is weird.
I offended some Indian friends today. I asked them why I should trust Indian business people to simplify my business systems when they worship 1,000,000 gods. Seemed like a legitimate question to me.
I’m thinking about moving. I could stand to have more money for my business and saving money is a quick way of having more money.
The more experience I get, the more I realize how inexpensive it is to do things yourself and how more likely you are to accomplish what you want. I am starting to find the people I deal with to be very small minded and try to impose that small mindedness on me. Einstein never conducted an experiment and was not a recognized physicist when he published his Nobel Prize winning paper. Isaac Newton and Galileo weren’t recognized either. Abraham Lincoln knew nothing but failure until he was elected president. Winston Churchill had a chain of failure all the way up to his being elected British prime minister and years of failures all through the second World War until the Battle of Britain. Personally, I don’t trust people who come to success too easily. Too often they get there because of who they know not what they know, they barricade themselves behind bureaucracy and the institutions they run become concerned about maintenance instead of excellence.
I watched a very interesting documentary the other night. I don’t feel the writer to be very bright, but some very interesting things came to the surface unintentionally. The first was that the United States experienced a golden age after the second world war not because they were competitive, but because all their competitors were devastated during the second world war. Once the rest of the world recovered, the United States quickly lost its lead finding it had to compete and United States business began to devour its own people. The more I study the American bank bailouts, the American stimulus package, the American health care reform, the abandonment of the dollar by the Arab oil countries, the more I see a country in a decline from which it will not recover. Barack Obama will not save the United States, he will oversee its wimpering fall. That’s why the world loves him so much. America has lived a lie for fifty years. The truth is coming home to roost.
Being here in Canada, I don’t like what this holds for my country. We are the United States’ closest ally. 75% of our foreign trade is conducted with the United States and this is in decline. Our country’s position in the G20 is in jeopardy and our prime minister is not attending the meetings. We find our prime minister is promoting service level jobs instead of advanced manufacturing and energy programs. We got fat on post war prosperity, too. We were the school bully’s intelligent best friend.
Everything I send to you is screened by the Canadian government. It was never any secret to me. I think Canada still has a significant place in the world. Our resources have not been tapped at all. Our economy is in decent shape. But I don’t know if we have the vision we need.
I recently told my Ukrainian programmers that a new idea is like a newborn baby: wet, red and wrinkly. It never looks like it is going to change the world.
Your Canadian boyfriend,
Grant.