Amerika

In the history books, the standard riff on Rome was that no one saw the collapse coming, and it sort of happened in stages, then tapered off, like Rome was simply fading away. Somehow we got to nowadays Italy, which produces little in comparison to Rome and has no military might.

We notice, then, that Italians seem to come in a spectrum of coloration from dark like Moors and Arabs to lighter-skinned, Germanish-looking people. The latter do all the productive stuff, and the former work jobs and demand free stuff from government.

In fact, it looks a lot like Mexico… Brazil… Russia… South Africa… Northern Ireland… Kosovo… Morocco… even India. The founding group keeps the place afloat, but the foreign-mixed group has all the votes, so it takes all the money and wastes it.

This thirdworlding is happening to the USA now, and it is the fault of the citizens. They had a tantrum in the midterms and elected the bad guys again, which demoralized everyone. How could any group be so stupid?

Sure, they will pay, because Democrats are out of money and all their ideas have already been implemented, so the only remaining step is to go full Communist, and the core of their base shies away from that. But the diversity does not; this way, they can take all the wealth.

Increasingly human self-rule looks like people finding excuses to take from others. The root of government is crime. Worse, the root of large social groups is people gathering the misfits and malcontents to create a voting bloc that insists on crime.

This is why all human societies die over time.

There is a feeling in America now that we have passed a point of no return. Many of us spent decades warning against getting to this point, but there was a football game on or a sale at Penney’s and so the warnings were ignored.

More recently, no one wanted to hear the warnings because no shopkeeper turns away potential customers, and if you deny that “diversity is our strength,” the diverse will not shop at your store and you will lose out to the other guy who invites them in.

But the thing about nature is — and humans deny this — it is omnipotent, and it exists not as tangible things but as recurring patterns that appear as a cyclic history because they are logical adaptions to the challenges of life.

We might see most historical cycles as this: we learn something, it moves from goal to method, we bicker over the method because it is personally inconvenient (hubris), the method gets adapted to the audience, this inverts the original goal, thus the methods are discarded and replaced with “new ideas” that are symbolic and easy on the mind because they are fungible, meaning you apply them in various amounts but do not have to change your thinking or the method implicated by the symbols, and then these new ideas fail and we must rediscover the old ones.

It sounds exhausting, and after enough cycles, people just want to go to sleep forever instead of continuing to fight the firehose of stupidity and self-centeredness that is humanity.

To the self-centered individualist in the grips of hubris, it seems that the ground is rushing up toward us as the collision warning indicator disturbs our thoughts. In reality, we steered the Learjet right into the ground and the beeping is too little and too late.

Tags: civilization collapse, democracy