Background Pony #179C

To you, I wish all the best of luck. Here's hoping your new job opens up some chance for you to actually make use of the skills you worked to acquire.And you are right about the government. As it stands, there is NO need to modernize or innovate because we sit at the top; so far at the top in fact that it would take either a suicidal nuclear exchange or a global coalition against us to actually threaten the united states.We achieved something seemingly impossible decades ago in landing the first astronaut on the moon. And why?Because we were competing for it with the Ruskies. We had an enemy that we could percieve as a credible threat to our dominance on the world stage, and who looked to be poised to take the stars. That instictual drive to conquer a foe, even in an indirect manner, is what made our country great…The US was like a heavyweight boxer in their prime; lean, fit, and a force of unrepentant fury when provoked. When a challenger approached us, we fought like hell and pushed ourselves until we bled, to do things that no one thought possible. The glory days are gone though. All those foes that came before are gone, and there's no one that can really compete with us. So why bother trying? We sit, we stagnate, and we go through the motions to sort-of maintain what bulk we have. All the while our bones are creaking and crumbling within. And as the image this little thread is a part of shows, our stagnation has metastasized some truly foul and agressive form of cancer.The only way to truly make America great again would be to give us a foe that can test our mettle. Alas, I don't think we'll get such an adversary until we rot away like the Ottomans.