Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
The Strange New Pathologies of the World’s First Rich Failed State
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6 min readJan 25, 2018
You might say, having read some of my recent essays, “Umair! Don’t worry! Everything will be fine! It’s not that bad!” I would look at you politely, and then say gently, “To tell you the truth, I don’t think we’re taking collapse nearly seriously enough.”