“China is catching up, but still behind in defense and aerospace technology”

this is a fiction, according to US defense officials, but if we pretended it was true, it doesn’t change the original point, that the US is falling behind in most technological fields.

you’ll notice that I didn’t mention aerospace in my original top of the dome list.

it looks like you’re agreeing with all my other points though, so I don’t have much else to say except that the important American fiction to dispel is this:

“other countries are catching up steadily overall and are ahead in some areas, especially China.”

10 years ago? you could argue that other countries were playing catch up in most technological fields.

now?

The US is behind in nearly every technological field and especially now is uninterested in catching up to the rest of the world.

The US population cannot afford to live and is critically undereducated, and are about to have four more years of withheld R&D funding and catastrophic isolationist policy.

That’s the reality on the ground now.

any “we’re not doing so bad” mentality simply is not correct anymore, and it’s important to recognize the reason behind and the rate at which the US is failing to advance in critical fields.

You’re not going to be able to swerve back onto the road by pretending the guardrails you’re grinding against aren’t there.