The Qin the the U.S.

I've been reading about the Qin and the Han dynastic periods in Chinese History.
The Qin culture was based on mobilization of a large civilian military force (like a militia)
and Agriculture, all else was considered unnecessary and unwanted.
This was all fine as long as they had wars to fight with other centralized societies,
for about 300 years (I think?).
The whole thing collapsed in about 10 years for lack of those two things.
We ( the U.S.) have been slowly sliding, and some times not so slowly,
to this kind of cultural model through out our rather short history.
Their is another large component to our culture other than agriculture and military,
and that's Merchant class. The Qin would have thought all this frivolous
and I think even outlawed it or excessively taxed it. May be that is our savior, any how,
I think this will be the next topic I'll paint. With the way my mind works this could turnout to be an abstract worm, or God heads flying box kites made of body parts (nothing sick please) on a grassy plane, and or maybe A dark thingy surrounding an even darker whachmacallit.