Maybe. And there will be people having 21st century faires, where they all dress up in mullets and spandex, and talk about how much better things were in the early 21st century.

Give America a chance, after all we are only 300 years old? As for great creations... Boston, Philidelphia and Maryland had some great furniture makers who's products have out gained their original sale prices ten fold in a little over 200 years. How about the Great American Silver Smiths who took the old Rennisasance styles and improved upon the smelting techniques of the masters to put forth Federal and Repose Sterling Silver that is sought after world wide. Jewells and cloths and so on and so forth... the Renniasance stuff was beautiful I will grant you but at what cost? I own and run my very own antique shop. I have been an antiquities dealer for the better part of six years and a collector since I was twelve and I tell you what.. No one wants to buy antique Rennisance stuff accept the museums. they still cost too much.... You had great families standing on the back of the surfs that lived on their land raking in 9/10 of the income from the sweat of the brow of people who toiled on the land night and day and were barely left with enough to feed themselves. Imagine being taxed 9/10 of your income just to live on "protected land". And how where you protected when trouble came? You where the front line with a pitch fork in your hand against plague and pestilence, cut down wihtout a second thaught because a Lord could always attract new surfs... The Renniasance was a glorious and far reaching time in history for about a fifth of the population of Northern Europe. Screw everyone else, North Africa, Middle East and China? They had had their Renniasances over and over again. New King brought new Renniasance. But those places didn't count until they were under English Rule and when the sun finally set on the Great English Empire the devistation was crazy and that was only 200 years ago. Look the Renniasance you see in your reading and your romantisizing is not at all what reality had it to be. I don't like the current leader of the country but there has been a group of people to dislike the president every term since Jefferson took office. If the Democrats ilke him the Republican hate him and Vice Versa. As for buildings and architecture, and I have been buying and selling Realestate for three years now... BUildings fall down because the ground moves and because people don't keep them up. Castles were designed to withstand seiges and attack, and they cost a fortune to heat. There were scores of wrokers, often poorly paid and baddly treated people who only stayed fro lack of any choice who toiled night and day to heat the stuffy small, unsanitary and poorly ventilated living quarters of a castle. People didn't live in fortresses... People lived in "Towers" where the walls were six feet thick because the stone used was so heacy the walls had to be that thick or they would crumble under their own weight. Cathedrals only got to be so big because of Flying Butresses, otherwise they are just house of glass and those are impossible to heat as well. But none are meant to live in Cathedrals either. Cathedrals are where dead bodies are entombed. the Abbots of Cathedrals has cozy little cottages out back. Enjoy the great works of art that survive at the local museum, go ahead and long for the time that you might have been invited to a grand ball in the Hall of Mirrors and danced till sunset while common people starved and the rats ate away at the grain that would make your bread and that bread would give you typhoid and you would die. We may not be so far better then they were but more of us can enjoy the ilfestyle that you long for in the present than were ever able to be "the haves" then. The Holy Roman Empire put thousands of people to death in the name of god for the sake of controlling more land and more money than anyone would give them willingly, don't thik that is noble in any time. America does not put people to death in order to control their land and wealth. We don't