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
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
You mean those same leftist friends who just put themselves under house arrest for the past year think the country is doing fine now that Orange Man Bad is gone all the while thinking they’re “woke”?
It’s become startlingly apparent to me how real the words “God is Truth” to me are now. It’s not a philosophical platitude - it’s that when you move away from the reality of the world you will believe and follow any fantasy world - even to your own destruction.
Permission to steal that?
Cultural doom is already here, purposely—and being used toward our larger doom.
Yes.
"...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Ask yourself this. Is the present Form of Government of the United States effecting your Safety? Is it effecting your Happiness?
The cultural rot has happened so fast. There was always rot and it was getting gradually worse....then BANG.
Already there.
We are already in cultural doom. It’s just that there are still small pockets of communities in the country were there is still some semblance of normalcy.
The West is dead.
Or as John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost, “Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
That is a good quote. I believe that is what the elitists believe.
Yes...well on the way...
I’m puzzled that they don’t see past their own noses.
Oh they can but won’t when one can’t handle reality denial is the only answer it’s what lemming are made of.
The elite realize this, thus the fortified barb wire fencing and the thousands of troops protecting them.
a few years ago I went to visit friends in Brattleboro Vermont. This is a center of “third way” thinking and every other leftist progressive thought wave. Some of it is very sweet, great farmers markets, and constant fairs. However, very little money generated there.
I noticed that every where I went and every event I attended had the same people. So money went round and round and not really produced. Everyone shows up everywhere to support the economy.
These people were swooning over several celebrities’ of note and riches who were looking at homes in the area. They were excited to get that money coming into the area.
Reminded me of landed gentry and the smallholders and serfs of old England.
It is not possible to escape anacyclosis.
It’s the only great truth of nations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacyclosis
https://anacyclosis.org/portfolio/what-is-anacyclosis/
But every single politician and employee of the state will tell you it’s BS. That we have advanced beyond it.
Because they refuse to see the arc of time.
Steal it.
I am not sure what their vision of utopia is, but I know I don’t want to be there.
They don’t want you there either.
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