a perfect world where people go to play minigolf and say to each other "so. if this is minigolf, then whats golf?" and no one knows because golf hasnt existed for hundreds of years by that point

The tragedy of American politics is that each conservative administration sells more and more public land for golf course development. While the liberal administrations sell less land off, they also never take the golf courses back. So America is just the gradual expropriation of all public land into ecologically disastrous monocultural play grounds for the upper class.