The Baltimore Bridge disaster which just unfolded in the US this week is not the exception, it is a symptom of a literally crumbling system. Leaning brand new towers in San Francisco and New York, a crashing hotel in New Orleans (in the video below). Everywhere, incompetence, stinginess and greed are undermining what until recently worked smoothly. Think about United Airlines which had one incident a day last week and Boeing which can't make airplanes anymore. Factories exploding on a weekly basis and trains derailing almost on a daily basis.
If you add the social and fentanyl crisis on top of this infrastructure mess and construction defects, it is easy to understand that America has a problem. It is not a bridge crumbling which destroyed the Roman Empire nor will these defects do much damage to the economy as a whole but make no mistake, all these events are the symptoms of a much deeper problem which will eventually bring the empire to its knees ending up what will have been a fascinating experiment.
PS: By the way, you can take this opportunity to watch carefully how a tower crumbles in real life. Now watch again the World Trade Center Towers, especially the 3rd one, WTC-7 and remember that over a thousand architects asked for a detailed investigation after 9/11. We are still waiting!
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