A good article from a new blog I discovered, The Burning Platform.com, which brings to my mind, an oil rig on fire, with little hope of stopping the blaze: “The US government is on a “burning platform” of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon.” The article makes the comparison between the West, especially America of today and the Roman Empire, with respect to their falls. Rome faced numerous problems undermining it, including mass immigration and the threat of barbarian invaders, military over-expansion, and cultural collapse from the undermining of the social glue that holds societies together. The article shows that Rome had it good compared to what passes as normal today.
For example, Rome did not attack manhood, and womanhood, and junk the nuclear family, and these things continued even after the fall/collapse, in a greatly reduced and impoverished population. But, the deconstruction and abandonment of all tradition is now business as usual for our New Class intellectuals. The Roman philosophers at the time, still continued the conversation of humanity, even as things were falling apart around them, while our so-called thinkers, mainly from the Left, celebrate the decline and fall, the end of the West, which they see as a god thing, in favour of the new god, communist China rising. Somehow, they think that they can benefit when the tree that they are perched in and sawing down, falls upon them too.