"Our" British cousins have first-hand experience with what it means to have fallen off the top of that mountain: The British "Empire" decayed in 80 years from "sun never sets", to "GDP between Mississippi and Alabama", and is currently being colonized by denizens of its former colonies.
But everything moves faster now: I'll give us five years until 'we' lead at nothing.
The never-spanked, 'trophy-for participation' population of the US may behave very badly upon realizing that "we ain't #1".
Also, there's serious doubt whether the next "king of the hill" on that chart will be any mixture of "western", 'democratic' or "christian". At least the former top-dogs shown in the meme were largely structurally and culturally similar. No more.
The next "Boss-daddy" will almost certainly be from an old, hard culture with a long memory and plenty of grudges against the new "has-been".
"Our" British cousins have first-hand experience with what it means to have fallen off the top of that mountain: The British "Empire" decayed in 80 years from "sun never sets", to "GDP between Mississippi and Alabama", and is currently being colonized by denizens of its former colonies.
But everything moves faster now: I'll give us five years until 'we' lead at nothing.
The never-spanked, 'trophy-for participation' population of the US may behave very badly upon realizing that "we ain't #1".
Also, there's serious doubt whether the next "king of the hill" on that chart will be any mixture of "western", 'democratic' or "christian". At least the former top-dogs shown in the meme were largely structurally and culturally similar. No more.
The next "Boss-daddy" will almost certainly be from an old, hard culture with a long memory and plenty of grudges against the new "has-been".