Gary C. Gibson - Essays

  Aren't the means in 'end justifies the means' scenarios, ends-for-themselves? Since asking this question I realized that some ...

  Too many answers that are somewhat superfluous to choose from for an answer on the topic of when the world will collapse. The world could ...

  If Russia hadn’t sold Alaska to the United States…what an interesting question of alternative history. Russia sold Alaska to the United St...

The historian Arnold Toynbee wrote that 23 civilizations have existed in world history. One could argue that some ancient ones existed for r...

  So far as I know the U.S.A. has been developing rail-guns since 1990. The navy has some prototypes that are advanced. The concept of big w...

  I believe governments tend to do what they want to do when they can get away with it. China for example has progressively rolled back Hong...

 Immigration was an issue during the Reagan administration. Out of control borders concerned U.S. citizens even then- they make a mockery of...

 Probably not right away. The F.S.U. gave way to a new state named Russia and a few other independent countries yet interestingly hadn’t muc...

 I.M.O. a reform of the existing democracy-capitalism synthesis that is heavily biased to ecological economics would be the better try. Ther...

  I do not have the opinion that all corporations are bad. Too large of corporations and networking have concentrated wealth and power. I wo...

  A reductio ad absurdam (arguing for the opposite to show enfilade the remainder) would indicate that all right-minded citizens should revo...

  President Ronald Reagan was the creator of the phrase ‘making America great again’. With the end of the Vietnam War a strong recession str...

  Maybe a galactic republic or alternatively, an evil empire, if it occurs someday will happen instantly through quantum computing shortcutt...

  Globalization is the easy, undisciplined way to go with economics. Physical facts tend to supplant any kind of philosophical reasoning in ...

 This is an interesting question with many ways to expand it, and I won’t go far into that. I liked reading Toynbee’s ‘A Study of History’ ...

  Probably the U.S.A. isn’t in decline, except in the sense that the entire world is in environmental decline because of overuse of resource...

  I would add to the pile of comments that the U.S. (a nation) isn’t a partner of anything. The U.S. government has some contracts with fore...

As I understand it, virus mutations occur more with a greater pool of infected people. Therefore the newer and possibly more lethal variants...

  Great question that would require an alternative history novel to explore meaningfully. The reason for a collapse of the west and the U.S....

 A great question that deserves a poet’s answer. I can’t claim to be a poet- yet if I were living in a communist U.S.A. quite likely each bo...