Comments on A vote for steady incremental decline by miguel cervantes

I can't say I've followed E.E. Doc Smith's LensMan very much,

Forced sterilization, certainly seems Huxleyan, dedevelopment is another delusional all together, more akin to the Khmer Rouge frankly.
Frankly the Europeans have long since passed the point of carrrying their own freight, but I'm sure they have atrophied that skill set. Re purposed pidgen dependency theory that Cardoso wouldn't recognize

I'm speaking of the Holdren/Susstein vision of technocracy, whch is redolent of Logan's Run, embodied in the health care bill and other instruments of the obamatariat. Neo empire, you've really assimilated the jargon, actually the Paul clan actually agrees with you on that last point, but most candidates this time around don't. I came through the Freedom Tower, call it Ellis Island South,

More likely a drab grey existence like out of Soylent Green, or THX--1138. The difference is before we were a world power, we believed in something special, this is possibly the greatest offense
of his associates, to make specially, the next generation we are nothing special. After this place, there is no other refuge

Thre's nothing new under the sun, CK, Henry Adams was certainly a proof of that, now the mid 80s with Running Man, and a whole host of thr dystopic visions, was typical of the brand.

Everything is cyclical, Colin, now doing things like a poorly designed stimulus, and health care plan, is not the best there is, and Friedman and Benen's attempt to represent such an outcome is pitiful. Now mind you, Your's was Mead's attitude, twenty years ago, when he wrote
"Mortal Splendor"