Monday, 19 August 2019

Voices of Doom, Signals of Decline

When a nation’s discourse becomes consumed by the scale of impending disasters and the austerities required to avert them, it is a sure sign that the nation has lost faith in itself. Such a society ceases to imagine triumph; it prepares instead for managed decline. The language of sacrifice, when unaccompanied by the vision of renewal, signals not resilience but resignation.

A flourishing nation is, above all, a confident one. Its public imagination is animated not by fear, but by possibility. It speaks not of collapse, but of creation—of the achievements its people will forge, the frontiers they will cross, and the obstacles they will overcome with skill and determination. Optimism, in this sense, is not naïveté; it is civilizational vitality. Without it, decline becomes not merely possible, but inevitable.

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