Innovative ideas is real. Do you think PayPal, eBay, Amazon, iPhone, FB, Twitter, Tesla are examples of technological ideas that are changing the culture in our lives?
Yes history has shown powerful empires fall eventually. The last one were the British. I think US is far from that state of demise having vested USSR and now finding a new for. Study Chinese aspirations and you’ll see they try to emulate US economically. A long way to an open society for them but is just a reflection of their cultural values evolved over centuries.