After The USA Deconstructs, What Do You Want To Reconstruct?
- reimaginelife22
- 6 days ago
- 3 min read
We all know that civilizations rise and fall. They follow similar patterns, a cycle that describes its predictable rise, peak, and fall, moving through stages like growth, expansion, stability, decline (complacency, corruption, apathy), crisis (infighting, instability, elite overproduction, warfare), and eventual collapse, then transformation into a new form. Think of the civilizations throughout history that have collapsed; here are a few: Maya, Indus Valley, Akkadian Empire, Western Roman Empire, Mycenaean, Khmer Empire, Norse,Mandarin China, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Turkey, Japan, British Empire, Tsarist, and Soviet Russia. And, we see that the country that had been the USA is deconstructing before our eyes. What do theorists from various centuries, Odwald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee, Ibn Khaldun, William Strauss, and Neil Howe, have observed about the cyclical theory of the lifespan of a civilization?
While there are many models of the social cycle theory, the life cycle of civilizations, here is a description of the basic flow of the key stages:
Formation - This is an exciting time, full of hope, motivation, unity, and challenge. A civilization emerge in fertile areas, developing agriculture and stable communities. People work together for the collective good and survival. Communities agree on how they will operate, how they are governed, their shared goals, and how to resolve disagreements. Unfortunately, often indigenous peoples are forced out or are relegated to the lowest hierarchy in the society during this stage. This is the birth of a civilization.
Growth - Population increases, leading to advancements in technology, culture, and trade. This is a time of pride in the civilization, increased hope, innovations.
Peak - Civilizations reach their height in power, influence, and cultural achievements. They become complacent and do not, at first, sense their decline in compassion, unification, morality, caring for one another. Caste systems have developed that divide members of the society; hierarchies exist. Sub-groups of people are alienated from the rest of the community.
Decline - Internal strife, resource depletion, or external pressures lead to weakening of the status among other communities / civilizations, widening gap between the ‘haves and the have-nots’, desire to go back to more prosperous times that some members of the society enjoyed (ie: “Make America Great Again”), scapegoating, looking for groups to blame, government and corporations seeking to control all aspects of the population (especially the highest ranking members exerting control over the lower social classes), rise of militarization to prove power to the world and to citizens to keep them in line with the wishes of the highest hierarchy / leadership.
Collapse - Civilization disintegrates, often resulting in loss of knowledge and culture. Usually wars, invasions, enemy occupation, capture, seizure by enemies ensue. Government, established laws, societal norms, tolerance, acceptance, civility, working together, unity, hope, growth, empathy, compassion, the worth / value of all members of the society, thinking for oneself, and respect cave / disintegrate / devolve into anarchy, corruption, grift, fear, hatred, blame, misinformation, over-controlling the population, scapegoating, terror, murder, death.
Rebirth - New societies may rise from the remnants, hopefully adapting past lessons. This stage generates opportunities to jointly do a postmortem on the former civilization to define core values and mission, to include everyone in the decision-making process, and to release the pain of the past. then, the predictable cycle repeats.
* For more research on the life cycle of civilizations, I put together some links to find out more. I included those links at the end of this essay/ blog post.
In 2026, the USA is deconstructing. In my opinion, it is already at stage 5 - Collapse. It is rare that a civilization who has reached this stage can reverse the cycle. I don’t intend to bring on ‘gloom & doom.’ On the other hand, not being aware of the innate nature of the cycle of rise and fall of civilizations is not prudent because, if we ignore the obvious signs of the fall, we cannot prepare for the collapse, manage through the proverbial phoenix rising from the ashes, and participate in redefining the rebirth, the reconstruction.
What is your vision, desire for how this land mass reconstructs after deconstruction? This is your chance to dream about the kind of civilization, government, culture, country, society you would like to see, to live in, to participate in, and to contribute to that benefits all the people. Please share your ideas, thoughts, insights, and suggestions by either commenting to this post if you are reading this on social media, or, if you are reading this through your email subscription, please share, by emailing me, at reimaginelife22@gmail.com.
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