Twilight or Dawn?
22nd December 2011
All civilizations go through strong and weak phases, and some of them fall. But no civilization in history exploded on a global scale within the space of a single century as modern Europe has done.
The European percentage of the world’s population has plummeted within the same period of time. Native Europeans are currently being displaced at a breathtaking pace in their own homelands, at least in the western half of the Continent. Western authorities and ruling elites are not very concerned about this fact, however. They are too busy worrying about carbon dioxide and what the weather will be like in the year 2089.
Perhaps the great upward expansion of European civilization that started in the 16th century and appeared to escape the long-standing human tradition of civilizations rising/flourishing/falling is about to come crashing down after all, once again demonstrating that what goes up must come down.
The worst part will be all the whining on the part of ‘progressives’ as the central tenet of their philosophy, that progress is inevitable, is refuted by Actual Events.
December 22nd, 2011 at 13:39
Or perhaps the worst part will be all the crowing and finger-wagging and I-Told-You-So of the reactionaries, whose central philisophical tenet is Murphy’s Law.
Unfortunately, they none of them have the strength of character to follow their own convictions to the logical conclusion, namely utter despair followed by suicide. I mean, why stick around for all the misery? And it would give the rest of us a break from all the sanctimonious bloviating of which they seem to never tire.
December 23rd, 2011 at 16:09
Actually, the most reactionary people around are so-called ‘progressives’, who appear dedicated to reversing any progress made in the 20th century.