Seven Causes of Civilizational Decline and Fall

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8 responses to “Seven Causes of Civilizational Decline and Fall”

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   BV

   February 12, 2024

   VDH: https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/12/do-leftists-now-believe-leftism-doesnt-work/

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   Joe Odegaard

   February 12, 2024

   Well, Brother Bill, one hopeful way to look at the current scene is to realize that in our modern age, things happen more quickly than in antiquity; thus we may certainly hope that a fall and a recovery may happen in a number of decades instead of in a number of centuries. If you count our age as Dark, and number the years from 1914, it has only been a bit more than 1 century. And from late antiquity to the High Middle Ages was about 6 centuries. And should we wish to pay attention, we moderns have more history available for our instruction. But on the other hand, we engage in novel and trackless new insanities, such as “transgender,” and “carbon dioxide.”
   I believe future generations will laugh at us.
   — Catacomb Joe

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   EG

   February 12, 2024

   Bill,
   The decline, knowing something of the prior beauty/greatness is hard to watch.

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   BV

   February 13, 2024

   That’s a good observation, Joe. The pace of change has certainly picked up. I’ve played around with analogies from physics: velocity, acceleration, jerk/jolt. Take velocity. It is a vector quantity. There is the speed of change and its direction. Where are we headed? Into the abyss. To mention just one concern: we’ve lost our fear of nuclear weapons, the fear that we felt in the early ‘sixties. But we are in greater danger than ever, esp. with a demented fool with the nuke codes. And about half the country supports this POS. So I don’t share your optimism. My recommendation to myself: devote yourself with ever more intensity to the spiritual disciplines: prayer, meditation, metaphysics, moral reform.

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   BV

   February 13, 2024

   Ted Nugent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D0JghXJjSA

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6. 

   BV

   February 13, 2024

   Hi Bro Inky and Bill
   Here is a quote from the article:
   The reality of this commitment to illegality was confirmed in a recent
   survey by Scott Rasmussen. He studied a group he calls the elite 1
   percent (people with graduate degrees, household incomes of $150,000 or
   more, and who live in densely populated urban areas). Among other
   questions, he asked people if they would cheat to win an election. Only
   7 percent of the American people said they would cheat. However, among
   the elite 1 percent who are “politically obsessed,” 69 percent said they
   would cheat to win an election. Rasmussen said it was the most
   frightening number he had seen in 35 years of polling. (READ MORE:
   Obama’s Awful Elite Unveiled by Rasmussen)
   Link:
   https://spectator.org/trump-is-the-man-nixon-couldnt-be/
   Hopefully it doesn’t come to this, in a general way:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB_eSLsulu4
   Love
   Catacomb Joe

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7. 

   Malcolm Pollack

   February 13, 2024

   Here’s a supplementary diagnosis:
   The world has become too small, too quickly. Like a gas rapidly compressed by a piston, temperature and pressure have shot up, and every human particle now collides energetically with every other. This batters existing structures to pieces, and makes stability and predictability almost impossible.
   As stability and predictability decline, low time preference — the essential condition for civilization and investment — becomes a riskier and riskier bet. This fosters present consumption, hostile individualism, and hedonism.
   Add to all this the collapse of any belief in a transcendent foundation for order, meaning, purpose, and morality. The result is accelerating decline, and, ultimately, chaos.

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8. 

   BV

   February 13, 2024

   That’s good, Malcolm. Future shock is upon us, and Marshall McLuhan’s Global Village. Jet travel and the communications media have shrunk the world.
   And then there’s the Integration Fetish: everyone is allowed to barge in anywhere and violate people with the barger’s ‘culture.’ Illegal immigration, improperly structured legal immigration, not to mention industrial tourism, the Ugly American know-nothing who expects everyone to speak English.
   The Diversity Obsession, which goes together with the Integration Fetish. Proportional representation. Biden promised us a government that “looks like America.” So of course knuckle-draggers need to be represented in the Senate by the likes of Fetterman. Examples are easily multiplied: Buttigieg, Yellen, Granholm . . . . Felons are to be given the vote as per that socialist Scheisskopf Bernie Sanders.
   You express a good insight anent time preference. Why save and invest, monetarily and otherwise, if there is no solid expectation that the future will be like the past? Why procreate? The case for anti-natalism grows stronger.
   We be in a pickle and ah be shootin’ from the hip. Bought me a new ahrn yestiday. To the range Thor’s Day to break her in. Bought my first ‘tactical’ hoody last week. Sports seven zippered compartments. Plenty o’ space for EDC. You know things are fixin’ to get hot when you see ‘tactical’ emblazoned everywhichwhere, when it is ‘tacticool’ to be ‘tactical.’ The tactical hoody has places for military patches. Gonna get me a “Don’t tread on me ” patch and one depicting the Greek letter phi, the meaning of which ought to be plain.

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