Tag: Societal collapse

Confessions of an Unrepentant Realist – Part 1

September 26, 2018March 29, 2013

It’s the precedent of the seizing of Cypriot assets that alarms me. I’m hearing from news anchors that, “it can’t happen here”, from pundits that, “it can’t happen here” and that, “America is too strong, it’ll never happen. We’re different.”

But, unfortunately for me, I’m one of those people who doesn’t believe Americans are immune from the plagued darkness history can drape over a civilization. I’m sure the Greeks, Romans, and other elite states believed their status among the world they knew would remain an ever expanding fielded plateau never to drop off. It didn’t dawn on them that they were simply resting at history’s pleasure on the tip of an acutely receding pinnacle. Some were more of a relaxed, obtuse slope gently, but surely, declining. Regardless, in time the Romans et al. breathed the sour air of a barren valley and so I fear will America.

The End of the Beginning of the End

September 26, 2018November 8, 2012

When not caused by war, nations decay slowly and gradually (e.g., modern day France, Italy, Spain, Greece etc.).

Alas, now, it seems ours is no different. Its exceptionalism is dissolving into the ordinary. It’s a choice made by the people. They fore-go liberty and self subjugate themselves under ruling political and administrative classes of which they’ll never be a part. They’ll never rise to those classes because they’re taught apathy, complacency, and their place since birth. They are relieved of the burdensome onus of everyday decisions. Decisions that were proudly made by preceding generations that were not a bother or an onus at all to them. To them, it was life. Deciding what to do, how to live, and how to be was essential and culminated in traditions, virtues, and mores.

That became too onerous for the generations that followed, they blithely go about taking direction and surrendering thinking and creativity to others in the elite political classes.