{"product_id":"book-bjhy","title":"Decline and Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;\u003cbr\u003eMere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough he was writing nearly a  century ago, William Butler Yeats could just as easily be describing the  United States today. The decline and fall of America’s global empire is  the central feature of today’s geopolitical landscape, and the nature  of our response to it will determine much of our future trajectory, with  implications that reach far beyond the limits of one nation’s borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America\u003c\/i\u003e  challenges the conventional wisdom of empire. Using a wealth of  historical examples combined with groundbreaking original analysis,  author John Michael Greer shows how the United States has backed itself into a blind corner in the pursuit of political and economic power. He also explores the inevitable consequences of imperial collapse, and proposes a renewal of democratic institutions as the only constructive way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy shifting the conversation from whether today’s American empire \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c\/i\u003e survive to whether it \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c\/i\u003e survive, and arguing persuasively that the answer to the latter question is “no,” \u003ci\u003eDecline and Fall\u003c\/i\u003e  makes an invaluable contribution to the body of speculative  postindustrial literature. This book is a must-read for anyone  concerned about the state of the union, or who believes that the time  has come to reinvent the American dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hypnotic Press","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49385162375472,"sku":"BDbjhy","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/102767-bjhy-Square.jpg?v=1735125294","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bjhy","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}