# How I’m Preparing My Family for a Changing World Order (WW3?)

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Published: 2026-05-27T13:44:04+00:00
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Hello world, One strange side effect of unemployment is that it gives you something modern life rarely provides anymore. Time. For twenty five years I worked in tech. Like many engineers, I spent most of my adult life sprinting from deadline to deadline, project to project, quarter to quarter. There was always another problem to solve and another fire to put out. Then one day the treadmill stopped. Now that I am no longer spending every waking hour inside the machine, I suddenly have the ability to do something I had almost forgotten how to do. Observe. And what I am observing concerns me. For most of my life, I have lived inside something historians would call the American unipolar world order. Most of us rarely think about it because it simply became the background operating system of our lives. Like electricity, it was just there. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States entered what many called Pax Americana. America became the world’s lone superpower. We had the largest economy, overwhelming military dominance, enormous industrial capacity, and perhaps most importantly, immense cultural influence. America was not just powerful. America felt inevitable. During the 1990s and early 2000s, I viewed America as some strange combination of Captain America and Guardians of the Galaxy. Maybe that sounds ridiculous, but that was genuinely how it felt. There was a broad expectation that tomorrow would be better than today. Economic growth seemed permanent. Globalization seemed unstoppable. Political stability felt normal. The future felt like a solved problem. But now I look around and increasingly feel like I am watching the operating system begin to fail. Some of this decline is relative. Other nations are becoming stronger. Some of it appears more funda…

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