Posted on 03/19/2021 5:12:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If history is any guide (and it should be) we have very little time left to pull ourselves out of this cultural tailspin.
This cancel culture phenomenon that’s been foisted upon us is a manifestation of true evil, of both intent and results. I have no doubt that, if it’s allowed to continue unchecked, we will be headed for a fate as bad as that of other once-great cultures in history. As soon as freedom and creativity are snuffed out, a culture rapidly begins the process of decay.
One example is ancient Babylon, once the most advanced city in civilization. It, and its broader area, Mesopotamia, thrived roughly where Iraq, Syria, and Turkey now sit. This was back a couple of thousand years BC. You’ve maybe heard of the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
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The finer details of how that great culture fell are not important. Fall, it did. Internal political strife weakened it, inviting invasion by its enemies, and that cracked it apart. You’ll find plenty of information online if you’re curious.
The parallels are not necessarily linear. The point is, that we, like the Babylonians, are not invincible. We don’t take seriously the dangers we are facing right now. We could easily destroy ourselves, to the point where we would no longer have a culture. Once our culture fails, we open the doors to invasion. The Chinese, I suspect, will be happy to step in that door.
My friends and family on the left ridicule my worries, but they don’t bother to look at history. They don’t seem bothered by our current lack of integrity as a government and as a people. I’m puzzled that they don’t see past their own noses.
We’re immersing ourselves in some seriously bad ideas
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It is clear that the left is trying to tear down Western Civilization. I am not sure what their vision of utopia is, but I know I don’t want to be there.
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Yes. Anymore questions?
Slaves don’t dram about freedom. Slaves dream about becoming the master.
America was made by rebels, and most still are at heart. Democrats have gone from boiling the frog slowly to turning up the heat all the way.
I predict a backlash.
The Ruling Elite (queens, kings, dukes, and earls of yesteryear) called. They want their thrones and fiefs back.
Yep, they would rather rule over ruins than participate in prosperity.
― George Orwell, 1984
They fail to realize that there's only so much room at the top of the pyramid, and the useful idiots will only serve as rungs on the ladder for the most vicious who will climb to the top. Thus has it always been with totalitarians.
What they are ruining is the opportunity for prosperity of that uppity middle class.
Serfs should know their place, says the Ruling Class.
How do we recover, or failing that, how can we insure our descendants can once again breath in a free entrepreneurial world?
Want to be a part of it? FReepmail me.
Entirely too true.
The rank and file supporters of the Left do indeed think, as you say, that they will have positions of importance in the new communist government. And they may for a short while.
But soon the communist fantasy of utopia will give way to plain old totalitarianism.
“There is no good and evil. There is only power, and those too weak to seek it.” ~ Lord Voldemort
I’d say we’ve been there for years.
Headed?
Headed?
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Well, look at this way... every time you think that the culture can’t get sink lower, it does....
Already there. Those who think there’s some hope of stopping it will continue to deny it, for a while.
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