[barrysteve]

In the long run, the British culture of checking, enduring, regulating and filling in insufficiency will be vital to balancing the world against a centralizing Asian power.

There's a growing longing in people's hearts - a pull - toward authoritarian and religious control. People are chasing Moby Dick's white whale and are filling their hearts with that craving and emotional desire to follow a goal.

It can be really disruptive to a culture that depends on satisfying wants, giving results to clear needs and obtaining what's lacking.

Britian needs a clearer, beautiful relationship to it's future and maybe we can move past nostalgia for the 1800s.

[alwayslikethis]

There will be no centralizing Asian power in the long run (this century). China has a fair bit of influence now, but with all the domestic problems it has, it cannot remain stable for much longer and is in for a long, irrecoverable decline.

[hnfong]

People have been saying this for literally 30 years now...

[ROTMetro]

Really? They have been saying 'this year marked the first decline in China's population' for 30 years? Because that is what China stated this year. Also that they had over reported their population by 100 million. For 30 years you say... huh, I must of missed that.

[barrysteve]

True it will go in waves this century, but in 160yrs was my aim with that comment. Maybe too long of a time frame to think about, but the next big change in structure will be then.