Is America worth saving?

This is another one of those hurried posts as time is short.

Let's start off by noting that I"ve compared our situation with the crumbling Western Roman Empire of the Fifth Century AD.

Assuming America is like that, one could ask, is it worth being concerned about?  Let's turn to Rome.  As of that time, the Great Library of Alexandria still existed.  It may well have been greatly neglected, but it still stood and would stand long after the fall.

If Rome was worth saving, it may have been because of that Library.  It's fall meant that Library was in danger.  And so that is exactly what happened.  Rome was worth saving even if only for that, in my opinion.  I am somewhat influenced by what Carl Sagan said about the burning of the Library.  It set us back 500 years.

As for America, the most recent flurry of posts about the molten-salt reactor technology reminded me of the burning of the Library.  Great knowledge was literally being destroyed.  If it hadn't been for the intervention of a few people, the great knowledge that was accumulated may well have been destroyed forever.  Fortunately, it was not.  But some of it was lost.  Many of those who worked on it had died.  It came about this close ( picture two fingers about a millimeter apart ) to being snuffed out for good.

The molten-salt reactor technology is a metaphor in this instance.  That something like this was happening in this country is a very troubling thing indeed.  If it could be saved, maybe not all hope is lost.  It is worth fighting for, at least for the moment.  Perhaps if something were to happen that would "turn on the lightbulb" in people's heads, things could get really turned around.