Posted on 03/13/2019 1:30:52 PM PDT by markomalley
Almost every factor that precedes the collapse of great civilizations has been met by the west.
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The good news is that Christianity has survived many of these collapses in the past couple of thousand years.
Yes, we are in the decadent period of western civilization. No doubt about it.
I see it. I’ve said it. I expect it.
I just hope I’m dead before the worst of it gets here.
They must take our guns before they can extinguish the light.
Every factor... Let me list a few that do not seem to make the grade:
The civilization is being militarily threatened by vast hoards of barbarians, only slightly inferior in weapons to the Civilizations weapons. Don’t see it.
Roman Empire, China, India.
The civilization is not capable of feeding itself, or is on the brink of starvation. Roman Empire, China, India.
The Civilization does not have trade around the globe. (All previous empires, current Western Civilization is the first to achieve this).
The Civilization has no or very slow technological progress... Roman Empire, China, India.
The Civilization is threatened by diseases that ravage the population and leadership, while under attack by technologically superior enemies. Aztecs, Incas.
HOORAY Paul Joseph Watson! BUMP!
Believe you don’t see the forest for the trees. Sure we do not have barbarians at the gate nor are we on the verge of starvation but will be there soon. Cannot imagine a society that kills its babies, feeds its poorest and laziest to the point of obesity, and lets boys be girls and girls be boys has much more room to run.
Oh and I left out: let in enough freeloading illegals to drive several states to the verge of bankruptcy.
I think you’re right - it’s not over...
except for one thing not present in the past - Americans
“All previous empires, current Western Civilization is the first to achieve this.”
Not quite correct. Trade routes that pretty much span the globe have been around for centuries.
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Centuries, yes. All developed and maintained by Western Civilization.
China probably could have done it, but they did not want the innovation and potential disruption.
The Ottoman Empire had the trade, but severely restricted it, and had no trade with North or South America (nor with Polynesia or Australia). They were not yet discovered.
The volume of trade today is many orders of magnitude greater, both as an absolute number and as a percentage of GDP.
Collapse of Christendom. The mystery of iniquity/lawlessness/anomianism/anit-nomianism, is just about complete in the institution called the church.
Actually, no. There was extensive trade between China and India going back two thousand years, and the network reached other parts of Asia and even Africa.
bump
The trade networks of today make those of antiquity pale to near, but not quite, irrelevancy.
Yes, there was some trade between India and China, and other parts of Asia.
I concede those networks were not developed by Western Civilization.
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