Tuesday, June 16, 2026

The breaking of Columbia

A stylised allegorical image of a distressed Lady Liberty crawling across a vast expanse of cracked, drought-stricken earth. Her long platinum-blonde hair floweth across the fractured ground; a spiked crown resteth upon her head. Clad in tattered robe remnants that have slipped from her shoulders, she appeareth to cry out in anguish, tears visible upon her face. Deep fissures split the barren landscape beneath her, conveying instability and collapse. Warm, low-angle light highlighteth the broken earth and the emotional intensity of her expression. National crisis, division, vulnerability, and uncertainty about the future.
generated via Grok

More than one-third of Americans doubt US will still exist in 250 years, survey finds. {Reuters 16 June}

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-us-nears-250th-birthday-reuters-ipsos-poll-shows-many-americans-doubt-it-will-last-another-250-years/ar-AA25LrWA

Newsflash: it is already dead in all but name. Much like the Soviet Union or the Roman Empire, it is simply too big, too unmanageable, too polyglot to stay together in perpetuity, and the cracks are showing all around us. Great powers often linger in a strange intermediate state, neither fully alive nor entirely deceased, sustained by habit, momentum, and the inability of their inhabitants to recognise that the world has changed around them. 250 years is a good run, and the nation hath endured chaos and division many times over, but that was then and this is now, and something fundamental hath changed in the collective character of the people. Not for the better, obviously.

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🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈

Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.

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