Going through my pile of papers, in the never ending paper wars, I came across a photocopy from the ancient Hindu text, Visnu Purana, which was composed at an unknown date, anywhere from 1st millennium BCE to early 2nd millennium CE. The writers described the Kali Yuga, a type of Dark Age. They could well be describing out time:
“Outcastes and barbarians will be masters … these will be contemporary rulers [of this age] reigning over the earth: kings [rulers] of violent temper … They will seize upon the property of their subjects; they will be of limited power and will for the most part rapidly rise and fall; their lives will be short, their desires insatiable, and they will display but little piety. The people of various countries intermingling with them will follow their example … the prevailing caste will … abandon agriculture and commerce and gain a livelihood by servitude or the exercise of mechanical arts … instead of protecting will plunder their subjects; and under the pretext of levying customs will rob merchants of their property …Wealth and piety will decrease day by day until the whole world will be wholly depraved. Then property alone will confer rank; wealth will be the only source of devotion; passion will be the sole bond of union between the sexes; falsehood will be the only means of success in litigation …”
The ancient writers could just as easily be describing our world, which shows that the collapse of civilisations has a commonality. We must be close now, given the desperate urgency the elites have to push through their agenda.