American Pie

American Pie :: By Pete Garcia




Published on: August 11, 2020 by RRadmin7 Category:General Articles

The people of the great nations of the past seem normally to have imagined that their pre-eminence would last forever. Rome appeared to its citizens to be destined to be for all time the mistress of the world. The Abbasid Khalifs of Baghdad declared that God had appointed them to rule mankind until the day of judgment. Seventy-years ago, many people in Britain believed that the empire would endure forever. Although Hitler failed to achieve his objective, he declared that Germany would rule the world for a thousand years. That sentiments like these could be publicly expressed without evoking derision shows that, in all the ages, the regular rise and fall of great nations has passed unperceived. The simplest statistics prove the steady rotation of one nation after another at regular intervals.


Sir John Glubb, the Fate of Empires


America, the shining city on a hill. Her untamed lands offered for centuries a home for the homeless. She became a nation of immigrants, who, fleeing the lawlessness of their ancestral homelands, embraced the ideals of a nation whose arbiter of freedoms were not granted by some fleeting and transient government, but by the Creator of the Universe. She was the last best hope for mankind. She was the last great respite for the weary and beleaguered huddled masses. If she, as President Reagan once soberly noted, falls, there was nowhere else on earth to run to.
To our surprise, we learn of our Ozymandias end.


Besides emerging victorious after two world wars, America’s long list of crowning achievements made her the envy of every empire and nation. How could she lose? She conquered all of her domains – land, sea, air, and space. She split the atom, thus ushering in the Atomic Age. She put men on the moon, thus ushering in the Space Age. She invented the Internet and thrust the world into the Age of Information. She was as indomitable as she was charitable. She was an impregnable fortress, guarded not by walls but by her elastic resiliency.


America the beautiful could not fall, could she?


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https://www.raptureready.com/2020/08/11/american-pie-by-pete-garcia/

I was thinking about Rapture Ready last week.  And 5 Doves, which was RITA but may have changed names?

Have they become slightly more tolerant in their old age at RR?