On Facebook Andrei Piriutko writes:

How will our descendants name this period of time?!! 🤔

"The word decadence, which at first meant simply "decline" in an abstract sense, is now most often used to refer to a perceived decay in standards, morals, dignity, religious faith, honor, discipline, or skill at governing among the members of the elite of a very large social structure, such as an empire or nation state. By extension, it may refer to a decline in art, literature, science, technology, and work ethics, or (very loosely) to self-indulgent behavior...”

P.S. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadence

A word from Tim:

A world where men can dress as women and a sizable portion of the country will join in their make-believe is a a decadent society clearly reaching a trough. When Donald Trump suggested purchasing Greenland he was roundly mocked; it was simply unthinkable to consider expanding the U.S. That is a classic symptom of a decadent society. Pleasure and amusement become all that matters. Doing something, growing, expanding are unthinkable.

We are actively hostile to Christianity and religion in general. We glorify sex in the most debauched way. We promote women who behave like men as heroes. We promote men who surrender their masculinity as the ideal (and American men are subsequently losing testosterone as a result.) The highest ideal is to not judge bad behavior.

And everyone wants a living out of someone else's pocket. There was a time when people were too proud to take charity; in his shame the boxer James Braddock accepted public assistance and when he fought for the heavyweight title against Max Baer he paid all the money he had received back. Now someone would try to find a way to keep the government money coming in while making a big purse like that. Everyone takes what the Democrats offer. Why not?  If you don't take it someone else will, and are they any more deserving than you? This has changed the way we think, altering us from independent people who take care of themselves to parasites.

So we have criminals and thugs who still have some testosterone out looting and pillaging and we call that "mostly peaceful" so as to absolve us from doing anything about it and say we can do nothing to stop it.

Now the government in California, after having won the quest for homosexual marriage, wants to decriminalize pedophilia. So you will be able to rape a child but not discipline him (unless that is what you are into) in the Golden State.

Decadent? We make Rome look like Puritans.

BTW, in the decline of any great nation there comes a backlash to this which usually culminates in a strong leader who fights a futile battle. The Romans had Diocletian and we have Trump. Whatever you think of Trump he is certainly a reactionary force to the headlong drive to the precipice. Oh, I know he has lowered the level of conversation in this country, thus adding to the decline (remember when he talked about how well-endowed he is?) But overall Trump has sought to be the Dutch boy with his finger in the dike (as opposed to Bill Clinton whose finger was in a whole different place.)

If history is any guide the Trump Presidency will be a hiccup in our rush to the Void. Diocletian's reforms created serfdom and were the direct cause of the Medievalism. What will come to replace the American Republic is anyone's guess but what is happening right now is setting that future dark age in motion.

And it will be a mother of a dark age. Science has become corrupted to the point it now is primarily a tool for the Ruling Class. Technology is still progressing at a strong pace, but that will slow in time. Worse, the technology is becoming more dangerous and destructive. CRISPR technology will eventually allow people to design diseases to attack others. How many BLM types would love to have a disease that kills white people but leaves other races unaffected? It's coming.

And computers and VR technology is separating people, who increasingly live in an artificial reality disassociated from the real world. It's part of why Millenials are so out there; they grew up online and think Twitter represent real life.

So the public grows more confused, more divided, more disassociated as technology blooms into a kind of electronic red tide. And the old values have been lost and probably will remain so for a long time as the new electronic gods busily scrub the old America away.

It took centuries to get out of the Dark Ages last time, and that was in an era when people actually faced concrete dangers and problems. In a make-believe world like ours it will be a long, long time before we wake up.

A "Woke" America is a slumbering America, a land of dreams and illusions. We need to face reality; it won't go away.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 07:49 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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