Today’s essay question

[beowabbit]

Today’s essay question, slightly inspired by a recent foray into the high-stakes world of internet domain speculation:

Will there be a United States of America in 50 years? In 100? In 500? In a thousand? Why or why not?

If your answer is “it depends”, what does it depend on?

Comments

[arfur]

I had a similar semi-rhetorical question a few days back.

I think it went something like,
Which will happen first -- the USA will pay reparations for slavery, or the USA will cease to exist?

[elusiveat.livejournal.com]

There might be in 50 or 100 years, but I don't think it will be a democracy if there is. I predict fragmentation of the populace as the result of environmental catastrophes of various sorts.

In 500 years, I'm not even sure there'll be a human species. I hope so. And I hope we have a moderately nice-looking place to live...

[underwatercolor.livejournal.com]

I'd guess there will be. There's no real essay to write about why; one would have to refute all theories of why not. ;) Bureaucracy is hard to kill.