One of the reasons it feels like the wheels are coming off society is that we seem to be at the end of things. By things I mean cycles. These are cultural, intellectual, historical and economic cycles. Some have played out over generations while some are playing out in a single lifetime. The result of so many things ending at once is something like the confluence of several rivers.
Probably the biggest thing coming to an end is the idea of America that everyone was raised to believe. If you remember the Cold War, then you probably recall people talking about the difference between America and the world. It was not just the free world versus the communists. Europeans would talk about how America was the envy of the world for our freedom and love of individuality.
We put people in jail now for having the wrong opinions. Our institutions are so corrupt no sane person trusts anything that comes from them. The only difference between America today and the Soviet Union of the 1970’s is that we have vast material prosperity, but that is bought on credit. The American economic system is a ticking timebomb just waiting for someone to cut the wrong wire.
People struggle to accept that old America is dying, and this remains a primary obstacle to changing the trajectory of society. The answer to the ongoing madness from the people we call the left is some form of “We just have to go back to…” that can never happen, so we continue to swirl in the churn of decline. This is often the dynamic with the other things entering their end phase.
It is why we are cursed with backward thinking. Everyone is obsessed with rummaging around in the past, like a person searching around for a lost item, as if there is an answer in the past that will prevent the inevitable future. One reason no one talks about what comes next is fear of what comes next. It means closing the door on the past and those past ideas. The future is a terrifying idea for America.
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- Cycles & Super Cycles
- The Rope Of History
- The End Of Things
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Everyone is obsessed with rummaging around in the past I agree with this. But it is easy to understand why people do this, especially when the past held so many great personal and collective memories. Despite what newly-minted Leftist Thought Control Tsars might tell us, the collected European history of (and especially of) the last 300 years is one well documented march of the unrestrained determination, kindness, intellect and industry of white men. And I include the US in this too, seeing that she was really a seed of Europe. Not only did the great materialism bring with it the… Read more »
Regarding your list of White accomplishments, check out the musical skit in the Family Guy episode, “Thank the Whites”. Hilarious, yet absolutely true. It’s still on YouTube… for now.
I’d add the germ theory of disease, antibiotics and anesthesized surgery to your list.
Diversity Heretic,
As I was reading my comment back to myself I thought about this! Thanks for the inclusion, undoubtedly, along with proper sanitation and sewer systems, the key to our massively increased longevity!
Should also have mentioned the extraction of crude oil and all of it’s various by-products.
Concomitant with that list of accomplishment was the art, architecture, music, literature, and poetry which accompanied this impressive list of scientific/industrial achievements. There are no real competitors to Mozart, Palladio, Da Vinci, Tolstoy or Virgil and their compatriots. Go to the great European cities and museums and you will find them crowded with Asians, Muslims, Indians…people from all over the world want to see and experience what our people have accomplished. Non-Europeans have never been able to write music like this: https://tinyurl.com/bddydb36
Good points. Those are also vital elements of the West. And so are the theological and philosophical schools of thought, from the Greeks through the Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment and later thinkers.
Also, the spirit and accomplishment of the great explorers.
The list is a very long one that needs to be treasured and passed down to the future generations.
1660please,
The spirit of the great explorers, indeed. That’s something I’m glad you mentioned, because I don’t think I’ve ever been more thrilled reading about people, than about those great men.
Such adventures. Sad though, as that world has gone forever.
Some of the Spanish conquistadors had some brilliant tales. They died in horrid ways, but they sure had eventful lives!
Thanks, OrangeFrog. I agree with you completely. And many of the explorers were admirable in various ways. Sir Francis Drake, for example, was a great leader, courageous, and filled with a spirit of fair play. LaSalle and some of the other French explorers also amazed me. And John Smith. Well, the list is long, isn’t it? None of them were perfect, but they accomplished more than 99.9% of us do today. Columbus, of course, is continually being trashed, but he helped get the ball rolling, after the Portuguese, and he had admirable traits also. He has been continually misrepresented especially… Read more »
One key thing to recall about Columbus is that he sailed the high seas, where death and disease were all too frequent, before John Harrison invented his clocks that kept accurate time on ocean going ships. This meant they could deduce their longitude correctly. These men, whatever their faults, were cut from such different cloth from the man of today, that it boils my blood to hear them trashed by people who have never considered that, hey, 500 years ago, fellows may not have aligned very much with modern principles. Different times. High adventure. Derring-do. It’s true life was very… Read more »
Another light cultural reference, this time from the comedic geniuses of Monty Python. Just substitute “Whites” for “Romans” when the question is asked “What have the Romans ever down for us?”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9foi342LXQE
Stupendous accomplishments in the arts and philosophy are easily the equal of those in the sciences. Rococo cathedrals, impressionism, symbolism, abstraction, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Poe, Dostoevsky, Goethe, Twain, Kant, Heidegger, Hegel, Neitzsche–I could go on an on and barely scratch the surface. Add up the accomplishments of the rest of the world over the last three centuries and they pale utterly compared to what the Occident and the Anglosphere wrought.
Ostei,
You are of course correct. I meant no denigration to the arts (when we could call them those), but for me personally they always took a distinct second place, probably as I’m a bit uncultured in these matters.
I appreciate the beauty of classical music, and gawk in amazement at a Rembrandt masterpiece, but I think a bit of it is lost on me. On the other hand, show me one of Thomas Telford’s bridges, and I’m awestruck!
I do wish I could appreciate the arts a bit more, I guess it’s just me mind.
Great post!
One thing we must also celebrate are our Greco-Roman-Nordic roots in philosophy, legal systems, social orders.
We are in this mess because we turned all of our attention toward technology and our destructive impulses toward dismantling Our unparalleled social technology and our knowledge of who should be permitted authority and who should never be permitted authority.
Those achievements turned out to be unsung and monumental in importance. Without them the technological and exploration achievements are meaningless and destructive.
Amazing post though. Have a beautiful weekend.
I am flummoxed by this idea that we should “close the door to the past” as if that were even possible, let alone desirable. There are aspects of the past that are never coming back. But there are many aspects of the past still with us and desirable and many aspects of the past that can and should come back. Even now, as we speak, we are learning painful lessons that require a return to aspects of the past. Having an industrial society, for example. Without it, we will eventually be a very poor bit player in the world. We… Read more »
Lots of mistakes, too.
Why not, rather than this cyclical notion of growth and collapse, or the endlessly forward-pointing line, an iterative notion: you go out, you make mistakes, you return and learn lessons, you go out again.
It’s progress without Progress!, endings without The End.
Charles Murray’s “Human Accomplishment” is basically a “Thank a White Man” homage.
Yup.
Reminds me of Morrison’s ‘This is the End’. It’s a truthful song — take it from a beautiful friend — but fails to look beyond.
Poor Jimbo saw the future clearly, and just couldn’t handle it, so he cracked open another Jack Daniels and headed to the check-out counter. Made reservations at the last resort.
The only answer is to work towards something greater than yourself and your moment. Tends to keep things productive.
It is interesting and sad to think of all the things that our ancestors did to build America. Every time you look at one or some of them, you find yourself asking, ‘What was it all for?’ The answers I keep coming up with are, ‘I and my emerging post-America groups of Americans have to define and be the answer.’ The Cold War was a lie it seems. The idea of it was that we had to defeat the Soviets in order to remain free and to preserve our way of life. It turns out that that war was a… Read more »
Great comment. Will be thinking about this throughout the day. Very thoughtful and I particularly like your take on the Cold War.
“The American economic system is a ticking timebomb just waiting for someone to cut the wrong wire.”
Do the (((people))) who have set up the current situation know what will happen next? Or are they simply happy that Whitey is finally going to be (completely) displaced from power?
You are right Z man; we are at the end of a Spenglerian cycle, and it cannot be reversed. I just want to know if the “end” leads to a Dresden-like end, or a universal Detroit-like end.
I guess we’ll know in a couple of weeks.
Those who have brought us to the current state of affairs seek only to render their hosts incapable of resisting the takeover of the society for their own purposes. The hosts’ eventual fate is of no concern. They make this quite clear in their pat response to any questioning of their behavior by describing some existential threat faced by their ancestors in centuries past. So, no, they have not thought about what will become of us.
The churches are in trouble.
The faith is not. People are walking away from their churches, not their faith. A reformation of some sort is on the way. America is doomed without faith, morality and ethics. Without them, the nation collapses, and one will rise in its place that DOES have morals and ethics.
Faith without structure is, at best, solipsism, and at worst, self-pity. For faith to play a role it must be organized. My sense is what passes for Christianity today is vestigial. It is a ghost in the culture that is slowly going silent. It is why I keep returning to the idea of a new Christianity. Something has to fill the void of organized Christianity.
That’s where the Vatican2 church comes in. It’s a loose structure that can hold all “faiths” even opposing ones.
Maybe we get many to fund Archbishop Vigano to come to America and to lead a new Church.
Agreed. At least – for the short term. Christianity has been here multiple times in history. The Vatican has gone off its rocker, hucksters sold indulgences and theological favors and fake religious trinkets, regimes declared war on the faith and did their level best to stamp it out. Christianity always survives. The church adapts, new leaders arise, schisms form. The good ones survive, the bad ones die out. The faith will not be defeated by faggots, troons, communists or jews. We are seeing this in Russia as we speak. The Orthodox church is back in force and even Putler respects… Read more »
“We have no structure, no real organization, no places to meet and greet and share fellowship…”
All this starts in our own backyards, with family, friends, neighbors. We can donate what we can afford to righteous activists and charities. What matters above all is God’s favor.
Was talking about this yesterday with my wife. How a lot of churches just seem to be offering spiritual milk, no real development or assistance for members – but the pastor and his clique gets rich.
However, when you look at the charities active here and around the world (e.g. Samaritan’s Purse), Christians are there on the front lines, putting their faith into practice. I don’t see Muslim or Jewish charities lining up to provide hurricane relief in North Carolina!
Try convincing normies that America is gone and it’s never coming back. Their answer to you is that the orange man will win a legitimate election and fix everything by replacing White people “legally”, giving “platinum plans” to violent negros and cutting the corporate tax rate.
As bad as things would be, I’m torn about whether the cackling whore being installed in dubious fashion wouldn’t be the best thing for the future of this economic trading zone.
There is only one way to fix this and defeat evil, you have to remove it. That is the only way.
Tired Citizen: I’m with you, and in so many ways just want to get it all over with. But my husband has also made solid points about why, even though we know it will only be a short -term and very limited respite, he wants Trump to win. Either way it’s best to plan for the worst. I’ve been skimming lots of YT videos about “after Helene/Milton” and so many people are admitting they’d grown complacent, or thought “I have chickens and will be okay.” So many who had no idea how many watts their precious coffee makers required, or… Read more »
God has disposed of some spiritual and emotional rubbish that I’ve been clinging to for a long time this year and replaced it with faith and calm. No reason He won’t do the same for you guys. As Jeff Bridges said in [I]Starman[/I]: you’re at your very best when things are worst.
“you’re at your very best when things are worst.”
Which is why i’m not worried. To win, you must be able to overcome your fear of death. That is the game we are now in. Based on how half or more of the country reacted to 2020, i’m not worried. A quarter of them will starve waiting for rescue, another quarter will resort to crime and killing the other quarter of virtue signalers. That leaves 25% of them that might be capable of resistance.
On Conservative Treehouse today one of the articles is concerning which personnel Trump must place into positions of power if he is elected. Good grief. Even mediocre wits like me can clearly see that “changing personnel” is not going to get the job done. This attitude is one reason our decline will continue. To start to fix the problem at least half of the government would have to be eliminated. Also, since at least 2001 this country has committed colossal crimes against humanity. The government institutions have committed crimes against the citizenry and openly subverted the electoral system. These are… Read more »
By now, everyone should realize that none of this will end well. Too many delusional, narcissistic, and psychopathic POS in Government and half the population have pretty much closed the door on that. Eventually the Overton Window will be so wide, that the sane will decide that ALL of the aforementioned trash mentioned here will have to be removed from the country with extreme prejudice, no matter what, no matter how. The worms gotta eat, too..
I have never heard “the ongoing madness from the people we call the left is some form of “We just have to go back to…” Leftists never say they want to “go back” to anything. It would reveal their failures en masse. It’s like asking leftist tree huggers how many of their predictions came true. Now conservatives do pine for the past in some things: religion, education, Pax Americana and such. Never leftists.
No, the right says this in response to the left. “We have to get back to…” is stock phrasing on the right.
It’s like waking up in a nightmare; I only remember Reagan as a child and young adult and everything was so optimistic. But looking back, everything was in place for our destruction, and why should Reagan care he was an old man and lived his life. This little talk he gives here is ultimate despair disguised as optimism:
https://www.niussp.org/video/open-doors-for-the-american-dream-reagans-last-speech-as-president-1989/
One of the great tricks of the devil was pitting the Soviet Union against the American empire, as between good and evil
One interesting symbolic note: Reagan’s last public address was at the 1992 GOP Convention in Houston. He was the headline speaker for the evening. Future Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson introduced him — but she had to introduce Pat Buchanan first, who preceded Reagan at the podium: “Tonight we hear from two Great Communicators.” Buchanan’s speech pushed Reagan past 11 pm on the East Coast, and the network commentators went bananas after Pat’s speech and barely mentioned Reagan in the lead-in. It was nostalgia for Reagan that kept Buchanan from succeeding (and a lot more, of course); people didn’t want to… Read more »
“The answer to the ongoing madness from the people we call the left is some form of “We just have to go back to…” that can never happen, so we continue to swirl in the churn of decline.” There is no answer for the future that doesn’t involve aspects of the past. Not trying to reincarnate the past, but applying lessons learned looking at the past. This is not year zero. We cannot close the door to the past even if we wanted to. We are all prisoners of the past. Attempts to break free from the past and generate… Read more »
The hardest truth. We cannot solve the core problem with words alone. It’s going to get existential, and it cannot be any other way. We have to earn our rebirth via tangible actions. And those actions are going to be unpleasant. Mano-a-mano, the old fashion way. “Today is a good day to die.” The enemy is few and protected by a mirage. They are not real men. They will buckle and flee with the first shot. No quarter, no mercy. It must be done.
Even in the heyday of empire, there were critics and artists who had a more ambivalent view of it. I’m reminded of James Rosenquist’s 1961 picture, which I think I saw in some DC gallery over twenty years ago:
https://www.jamesrosenquiststudio.com/artwork/6102-president-elect
It’s only with rose-tinted nostalgia that peak empire is viewed with longing.
Or maybe its marveling that you used to grumble about the wear on the linoleum while you’re burning alive as the elites nail the remaining windows shut?