Go to the media bankNational September 11 Memorial and Museum in New YorkMOSCOW, Sep 12The United States has lost the status of a real superpower, having become a living embodiment of Aldous Huxley's dystopia «Brave New World». Rod Dreher, a columnist for The American Conservative, says that on the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers, he saw the first signs of irreversible changes in the nature of the American state.
WP: US could benefit from recession in Europe» At that moment, America seemed stronger than ever. We were the only superpower in the world. And we were united as a people, as we had not been since World War II. Yes, we were clearly going to the war in Iraq (it will begin in six months), but it was inconceivable that this coming war would not go according to our rules. We were so powerful — and we were morally right! Well, or so I thought, «Dreher recalled. However, devastating the war in Iraq, the economic crisis of 2008 and the internal political crisis that then swept the United States forced Dreher to reconsider his positions. He noted that in the world, including in the countries of Eastern Europe, the United States is no longer perceived as a symbol of hope for the future, but is seen as a cultural imperialist, spreading ideas alien to other states.
"We have become Babylon. If the USSR seemed like an evil empire in the Orwellian sense of the novel "1984", then who are we? We became the Huxley version of Brave New World. A totalitarian dystopia of inhuman pleasures, pornography and drugs", the author said.
Earlier, the German newspaper Die Welt predicted a decline in Europe according to the scenario of the collapse of Ancient Rome, which provides for the development of inflation, combined with the consequences of a pandemic and attempts by state systems to interfere with the development of a market economy. economy.
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