In yesterday’s Herald Tribune Paul Krugman paints a dark picture of America:

“So the end result of the long campaign against government is that we’ve taken a disastrously wrong turn. America is now on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere.”

People tend to underestimate the resilience of the US, the world and human beings in general.
And if we are living in a period of decay we have no other option than to enjoy the decadence.