Cultural Historian Morris Berman suggests in Dark Ages America: the End of Empire that in the corporate consumerist United States, the very factors that once propelled it to greatness―extreme individualism, territorial and economic expansion, and the pursuit of material wealth―have pushed the United States across a critical threshold where collapse is inevitable.
Aw tənfust ən təwset tan Morris Berman inna daɣ Dark Ages Ameriəa: the End of Emɗire as daɣ États-Unis ən maškan, inəmušal imaness witən əbhalnen ibret ən təmɣare ən atwidəm assisakayan,ajit ən akal ad tidawt,ad alakamat ən təlat ən harat nətaj assəmbaj ye États-Unis samdo labassan dihad egaɗəl ajen.