America's needs.

America as of late has built up a obsession with our own downfall.
We see many threats in the world real, or imagined.
We see them eating away at our position threatening to knock us off our perch.
We see old fores returning and new ones emerging.
We see a grand conspiracy lining up to destroy us.
Yet we forget the words of one of our greatest presidents, who spoke of who will be the author our destruction.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. -Abraham Lincoln
If we are still that nation of freemen Lincoln spoke of then no force of man can destroy us except that which we unleash upon ourselves.
But we still have this obsession with the world, this psychological need to lead it.
The world indeed has become accustomed to this and has come to rely on it.
But can we really afford it anymore?
This role of superpower is changing us.
The badge if you will of the global cop is changing our attitudes.
It has given us this current hubris, paranoia, control freak nature that is slowly driving us mad.
This position has allowed for the creation of vast incestuous relationships and corruption to infect and subvert our societal institutions.
We now jail and disenfranchise a huge percentage of our population in pursuit of goals that have less to do with improving society as they do with minorities and elites trying to impose their will on society.
We no longer have a safety valve to let the more edgy parts of our society out.
We no longer have the frontier and we no longer have a true national purpose anymore.
It seems that we no longer wish to build or really maintain that city on a hill.

Yet we know that America has and can do amazing things.
We can create that new frontier once more.
We can build civilization to a higher level.
We can become the people who will remembered for all time.
We have been and are using that new frontier.
But this time, this time we can go and stay, go and build and ascend to something higher.
We can be industrious again, and regain our bearings.
We can escape a potential national suicide and become sane again once more.
We can show the world that we don't to all compete for our survival.
To quote JFK not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.
To unlock the infinite ocean that lies before us, to open the door that blocks our way to mankind's ascension is achievement for all time not just for this time.
Every petty war, every little crisis, every little rivalry becomes moot when mankind tastes the waters of the infinite ocean in front us.
To find the key that opens the door to mankind's immortality is an achievement for the ages and an immortal honor for whoever does it.
We can break the cycle of history if we can have the courage and the smarts to do so.
Lets hope that day is soon.