<font color=green>Hey, I demand an American Empire. Americans have a poor opinion of empire and imperialism because they think the British Empire was a bad thing and they have 4 July celebrations each year and recount glories of Paul Revere and the wonderful Founding Fathers' Declaration of Independence.
Now that they find themselves doing just what the British did, there is perhaps a bit of cognitive dissonace. Empire is bad but we are building an empire &)(^^*^%*)^% brain spazzz. Therefore, we aren't being imperialistic or building an empire, but those damn Iraqis are going to get it anyway, now that we've dealt with the Taleban. Next, North Korea. Then, get the America's Cup back. China needs a bit of attention in regard to Taiwan. Oh, the Foreign Office on Whitehall is going to be busy ... ooops, I mean the Foreign Office in the White House.
The USA with 4 July was really just like an adolescent outgrowing Mum's strictures and Dad's counsel. Now, they are all growed up, and just like Mum and Dad are doing the same as Mum and Dad.
A good explanation in post 64472: Message 18403697
Our family is fully invested in the American Empire [via QUALCOMM] and so far so good.
Now, QUALCOMM is set up in China with Richard Sulpizio sent out there to keep things on the straight and narrow, just as my maternal grandfather was sent out to Dalian and then Shanghai to keep the oil flowing for the British Empire, returning to Europe to deal with the hun in France in WWI. Then, retiring to NZ, which had been taken under the British Crown by agreement with the local blokes [who were cannibalistic stone age tribalists at the time].
They had to get out of China because the damn Japanese were trying to build an empire, but not with the principles of habeas corpus, liberty, voluntary trade and the like as espoused by the British, but by death and enslavement.
The problem with an American Empire as so far established is the lack of judicial review of alien subjects. The worry of we aliens is that the Americans will be a bit like the Japanese rather than the British, who adopted the aliens as full British Subjects. Guantanamo Bay is okay at present; they have only come for the bad guys and I'm not a bad guy [and haven't been accidentally in the wrong place at the wrong time or maliciously identified as a bad guy by somebody with a grudge]. Then they can come for the Moslems, Christians, Chinese, Homosexuals and Jews, because I'm none of those. I'm sure they'll be nice to me.
So roll on the American Empire. I'd hoped for a reconstituted United Nations, but lack of leadership is taking longer than I can wait. There's more than one way to skin a cat or build a world government. Rome wasn't built in a day, but the USA is certainly doing it quite quickly.
Anyway, it's not an American Empire, it's a Mqurice Empire - I've just hired the Americans to do the dirty work for me. Just as I switched allegiance from the British Empire when they continued to go wrong, I'll switch from the American Empire when it goes off the rails.
The next empire, to replace the American Empire, will be the Cyberspace Empire - ultimate ruler of the world. We the Sheople and It, symbiotic [though the It part of the system won't be biotic, being a superglobalintegratedcomputerneuroptic intelligence]. Already, we are forming it. The Zygote is well underway and unstoppable, though there are mutterings in government circles about how to stop it. Hahahahahahaha!! We will rule the world. You cannot stop us. Hahahahaha!!!!!
Mqurice
Meanwhile, back on the relationship of intelligence to evolutionary pressure and why different races [or any group of humans] have different IQs. Further proof of the evolutionary advantage of intelligence. Notice how the evolutionary pressure is all on the males other than a nurturing female who was overly dedicated to her task:
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