China, China, China

China is on steroids when it comes to building. The world’s biggest and grandest projects are happening there. A 6.5 million square feet mall that dwarfs The Mall of America (4.2 Million square feet) and West Edmonton Mall in Canada (5.3 million). The 101 World Financial Center a mile long dam to divert water 700 miles, the worlds highest railroad at over 13,000 feet above sea level. A near shortage of concrete because so much is being built…being an American this is just so…well un American, since China was always that third world country on the other side of the planet. At the turn of the last century it was America doing the building.

Doesn’t it just seem like America has lost its innovative touch? Of course this is really the age old story. Country or organization has a dream, works hard to achieve it, and then tries desperately to hold on to what it has achieved. The problem is status quo kills. An entity not moving forward is lost. America wants desperately to hold onto the ideal (and frankly the past) that it alone is number one and no one else is going to take its resources away. That is misguided if not fatal thinking. We seem all too content to shop ourselves to debt, suck up the world’s last cheap oil in our SUVs, and turn the world into our enemies.

Why is it that the obvious is absolutely so hard for the majority to see???