I’m an old, with memories as far back the late 80s. I also majored classical history. And let me tell you, we are collapsing way faster than the western Roman empire did; in the last 40 years we’ve had at least 150 Roman years’ worth of decline. A lot of people reading this will absolutely live to see a time when the USA only exists on paper, if that. tbh there’s an argument to be made that we’re pretty much there already in most of the ways that count.

as to whether it’s a good thing: nothing is a good thing