All Civilizations Decline

"All civilizations decline. That's a fact of history. The cause is - civilization! The more organized a state become, the more successful. But, the more successful the state the more affluent elements ascend to the the top and using their individual power, they steer the government toward self serving goals that have nothing to do with national survival. Soon, the civilization becomes top heavy and topples from sheer elitist lethargy. There is a revolution, the nation crumbles into chaos and the whole things starts over on a new playing filed. The USA has achieved all it can and now will fall for reasons stated above. It is not reparable. It has to go the same way other nations fell. The world will miss us terribly."

Jim Bass
Comment on Asia Times Online article.

Modernisation

To Americans, modernisation means Americanisation. To the Chinese, modernisation will likely mean Sinasation. To the Indians it may mean Hinduisation.

It all rather depends on who gets to rise to the top to propagate their ideas through empire.

The term modernisation is, therefore, quite meaningless.