but though there is plenty to lament, while the u.s. still exercises it's freedom of force 
to dominate the world, the world resists global domination—reason for celebration.
the ruling class may grow more brutal yet while losing control of the narrative, of the intricate system of nature it utterly fails to respect or understand, of the empire of hate and avarice.  
the ruling class will ultimately fail to rule.  
it's already the rule of failure, injust, bound to fail, just in time. 
the rulers are thus also ruled, by their own evil, by their rules.
in time we know we are also vulnerable to the madness of the flailing failed empire. 
what survives will have survived the greatest most treacherous empire ever known.

post dat. chomsky notes mayr writing about the average life of species being 100,000 years, and intelligence (by human measure) correlates to shorter span than beetles or bacteria, and if we are at around 200,000 years we must be beyond our sell-by date. that would still mean the failure of empire is a good thing for other species, and whatever resistance we can manage will if not extend our span make our end less bleak. chomsky says that empires are not failing but achieving their aim of destroying independent development, or democracy, and establishing a global network of dictatorships. the media always says we were incompetent, we made mistakes, when whole populations are destroyed, preserving the specious notion of american innocence, and preserving the empire to continue making the same mistakes and the same enormous profits. the only thing to stop this madness is collapse, earth is going to have to do that, and none of our resistance much less our systems of power, will protect us from that.