In pain? Yeah, I'd say that's fair. But "collapsing"? I don't really think so. This country is traditionally pretty resilient. Consider that we had a literal ci

In pain? Yeah, I'd say that's fair. But "collapsing"? I don't really think so. This country is traditionally pretty resilient. Consider that we had a literal civil war and came out of it more or less OK in the long-run. There have always been periods of unrest and agitation, including previous periods where race related issues were front and center. But a lot of it relates to the economy. The "stagflation" of the 1970's had everybody all up in arms (so to speak) once, and we got past that as well. I think things will settle down eventually. But I'm an optimist, and I largely buy into Steven Pinker's arguments that the world as a whole is becoming a better place in general. Sure there are exceptions in pockets, but a lot of things are improving. Climate change and some of the resulting issues there could be the real wild-card in the equation though (to mix metaphors very thoroughly). Hard to make accurate predictions, especially about the future. As the old saying[1] goes. [1]: often attributed to Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr, an "old Danish proverb" and probably many others