Never before in history has an empire, a culture, a civilization liquidated itself in just ten to twenty years. Unfortunately, the West will also succeed in this.
A writer once wrote an article in one of the weekly papers about Blandings Castle and reported about it: "The cracks in the stones are overgrown with moss, and everything is covered with tangled vegetation." This description would also fit the owner. The fifty-some years spent in serene and undisturbed repose had given Lord Emsworth a strange, strange quality to his being. It was very rare that something got him out of his groove. But now it was still sad. "Leave it, Psmith." Thanks. But that's over.
This is over. He was covered in moss. And while the moss is blowing, three hundred thousand young warriors are waving the new flag in London and are Jews without shame or fear. Everything is free for them.
Speaking of which, London! According to a recent survey, 75 percent of London's population is no longer English - or even British. In other words, it is not from the former colonial empire, in other words from the British Commonwealth. But at least the PM is a Punjabi Hindu – how comforting. The mayor of London is a Pakistani Muslim. But my favorite is the Scottish Prime Minister! He is Humza Haroon Yousaf. His father also came from Punjab, only from the Pakistani side, and his mother from Kenya. This is how little Yousaf became first minister in the colors of the Scottish National Party (!).
And William Wallace went to drive a taxi and sell fish at the Glasgow market at weekends. Because this is over. Oh, of course everything is fine on the surface.
It is as if, sometime around 420 AD, a staff member of Antik Natione Romanus had approached a well-to-do citizen in Rome, who was on his way to the Colosseum for the great holiday games, and thrusting the microphone under his nose, he said: - What does he say that roughly fifty years will this all be over? How will there be no more Roman Empire?
And our upright Roman citizen would have answered like this: - Are you crazy? What is he talking about? where are you from Ancient Natione Romanus? I thought it was from the Ravenna Times. All the same. So note, Rome is eternal. I'm going to the big arena now, it's going to be a great show, or the lions are going to eat a dozen fools, everything is working, everything is in the best order, we're the invincibles, so don't talk nonsense to me here, because I'm about to report you for hate speech! It won't be over, after fifty years, what a nightmare...
And anyway, our good Roman citizen is right! Because it didn't end then and that's not how it ended. The "much smarter" posterity always assigns all kinds of years to everything and designates them as the beginning of something or the end of something. Then he proudly looks around with the confidence of a fool and starts spouting grand platitudes - such as "Rome was buried in Ravenna". Oh, of course... Because Odoacer captured Ravenna in 476, and then posterity proudly pointed to this date and declared: this is where the Western Roman Empire ended, this is the border between antiquity and the Middle Ages.
But that's bullshit, please. Let's say September 4, 476 fell on a Sunday, and Odoacer entered Ravenna on that day. But on Monday, September 5, the citizens of Rome woke up in the exact same empire.
The cultural and civilizational fabric of the empire still existed, in fact, Roman law as a civilizational legacy has remained to this day, Roman law is the most formidable subject of law universities, and it will be abolished just recently, cast your watchful eyes on Copenhagen, where just a few days ago some a migrant advocate to the parliament with the petition that the points of sharia should be included in the Danish constitution, because they also live here, and for them sharia is the law, not all kinds of Danish bullshit.
And not Roman law.
But back to the ancient world! Rome did not fall after September 4, 476. This collapse lasted for three centuries or so, because it took about that much time for the Islamic conquest to completely liquidate, destroy, and destroy all the relationship systems, power, cultural, civilizational, and economic relations of the Mediterranean world. And let's not forget that from the beginning of the 5th century, the western part of the Roman Empire was the scene of permanent crises, where larger and larger areas came under the rule of "allied" but actually hostile barbarians. And the power is not exercised by the emperor, but by all kinds of Germanic generals.
For example, that certain Orestes came with his Gallic and Gothic troops and made his son, Romulus Augustus, emperor. Never forget: our friend Orestes was the secretary of King Attila the Hun. His son became the Roman emperor, who was even mocked by his contemporaries as Augustulus instead of Augustus, i.e. "little emperor".
How nice, isn't it? Rome is founded by Romulus, and another Romulus becomes its last ruler. Because then Odoaker arrives, a commander of Scyr origin (note: not a Syrian, a Scyr - that is, an East Germanic people who appeared on the stage of history between the 1st and 5th centuries) as a ([al]armed extra) who, at the head of the rebelling mercenaries, 476 in August, he first captures Rome, executes Orestes, and then proclaims himself the ruler of Italy. We should also keep in mind that Odoacer's father, a certain Edekon, was also Attila's secretary. So the secretaries of the Hun king managed the affairs in the western half of the Roman Empire in the 5th century.
This is the usual scenario of empires collapsing.
And because then Rome was no longer important, but Ravenna, so Odoacer goes there and enters the city on September 4. He doesn't even kill the "Emperor" anymore - why? -, exiles him somewhere around Naples, and sends the imperial insignia to the Eastern Roman Emperor, thus indicating that the imperial tradition, the country, the cultural-religious-civilizational heritage no longer mean anything to him, that is, the sister state of the Eastern Roman Empire no longer exists. But - I repeat - the Roman citizen woke up in the same way in the morning and did not perceive any of the changes, and it did not occur to him that the end of the empire was here. Only Verlaine knew that fourteen hundred years later:
I am decay, Rome at the end of its decline: / the blond and fierce barbarian armies are coming / and it carves an acrostic called Empire / and its style gilds the languishing twilight. / The soul is nauseous, tormented by its orphanhood. / They say that there are great wars going on far away. / Oh, how the slow heart and weak will / can no longer and does not want to glow red! / That he can't, doesn't want to die a little! / Ah, no more wine? Bathylle, are you running out of jokes? / Ah, goblet and bowl empty! The word has no meaning!/ Only a small poem remains: they throw it into the fire; / just a slave who goes his own way; / only the great, overwhelming, senseless sadness!
Just the big, overwhelming, senseless sadness... Well, that's it.
Anyway, according to a previous survey (YouGov - commissioned by the advertising company Saatchi & Saatchi, who else!) 68 percent of the English (British) feel that the United Kingdom is "generally in decline", more than half of the people experience a deterioration in their standard of living , and 73 percent believe that the country is fatally divided. And to keep in mind: according to the survey, the vast majority of Britons were completely indifferent to the coronation. 75 (!) percent of the 18-24 age group were not at all interested in the event, 35 percent of older people were not, and 29 percent were not at all interested in the coronation and the king.
"In addition to Saatchi & Saatchi's research, another new study is being prepared, entitled What the hell is going on here? The study documented the opinions of thirteen randomly selected people in the United Kingdom about the state of the country. The researchers argued that "people feel the country's problems more and more acutely". The report reads: »People living in poverty and dependent on food banks have felt this for a long time (and now many more do). But no one we spent time with had been in this precarious position before. Now we're seeing how the national crisis is affecting those who used to be much better off.' Hamid, a GP from Middlesborough, told the researchers: 'A friend of mine had a patient in his surgery who threatened to come down with a with a knife and stabbing everyone... it's crazy... society seems to be getting angrier.'' He added: 'I think people are angrier these days. Whether or not Covid was the catalyst for everything, people seem to be much less tolerant and less willing to compromise.«
Saatchi & Saatchi's Richard Huntington said: »The King's coronation ceremony is a significant cultural moment that most of our nation will not have experienced in their lifetime. It always started conversations about how this country works. And the results of our research, as well as our conversations with real people, speak for themselves - division, brokenness, social gaps and a frightening reality are what we have to face today.''
Great Britain is overwhelmed by moss. Europe is overwhelmed by moss.
And the Earl of Emswort stands at the window, and a great, overwhelming, senseless sadness pervades him. Great, senseless, overwhelming sadness is passing through Europe. That's why he waves a rainbow flag in his leather thong.
Only the invading and invading alien army is not sad. They are energetic, ready for action, fanatical, they know what they want, and they don't have a rainbow flag. So many barbaric Odoakers. So many Moors are true believers. The great leader Abdal Rahman is ready, the battle of Poitiers is approaching, but Charles Martell is nowhere to be found, and Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafigi is freely roaming the countryside with his terrible hordes, all over the Christian (once Christian) world. But there is nothing to see here.
Saatchi & Saatchi has assessed the public mood and will adjust its advertising campaigns accordingly. It will push even more antidepressants under consumers' noses, and the meat patties in the hamburger will be even bigger - at least in the commercial. Because - as we know - development is simply unstoppable in the bright West. And it is even more unstoppable in the East, which is one hundred percent similar to the West.
South Korea is now the tenth largest economy in the world. Their annual GDP per capita is 28,000 dollars, just double that of the Hungarians. In comparison, their fertility rate is 0.8, the lowest in the world. In 1960, when they were poorer than a church mouse, it was still 6.1. Now that they are rich, they don't have children anymore, but in the 65-74 age group, they are sky high in the number of suicides in the world. Aging South Koreans sit at home, have neither children nor grandchildren, and kill themselves in silence. That's why it's worth developing.
Philosopher Byung-Chul Han writes: “Psychological illnesses such as depression or burnout are expressions of a deep crisis of freedom. They are pathological symptoms of the fact that today freedom often turns into coercion." Furthermore: "Today's financial capitalism directly and radically destroys values. The neoliberal system ushers in an age of exhaustion. Now the psyche is being exploited. Thus, this age is accompanied by psychological illnesses such as depression or burnout."
Look at what kind of homunculi are rocking their alive rotting bodies on the streets of today's West, especially the "land of freedom", i.e. the big cities of the United States! Look at this army of zombies at least once, as they smoke their cheap speed, herbal, crystal, shoot their heroin, and then they present nothing as a living statue of horror, where "freedom" and "prosperity" lead.
Check them out, don't be afraid of the pain! From no pain. “Pain, as one of all bodily sensations, is to man like a navigable stream of never-ending water that leads to the sea. Pleasure, whenever one tries to give in to it, always turns out to be a dead end.” Walter Benjamin writes this, and Byung-Chul Han chooses it as the motto for his book The Suppressing Society. In which he writes: "Algophobia is everywhere today, the general fear of pain. Pain tolerance also decreases rapidly. The consequence of algophobia is permanent anesthesia. We avoid all painful conditions. Even heartaches are suspect. Algophobia extends to the social space. […] Algophobia also permeates politics. […] Post-democracy is spreading. Which is a sedating democracy. Appeasement politics is incapable of visions or substantive reforms, which can be painful. He prefers to resort to short-acting painkillers to cover up systemic dysfunctions and inadequacies. Appeasement politics has no courage for pain. That is why it continues the same.”
But the barbarian wars are not afraid of pain either. In fact, it is their element. Causing pain and enduring pain.
The barbarian wars that were here and approaching and only then starting were raging. They're just not blondes. But then, history only repeats itself in generalities, in the big picture. He always innovates in the details. He thinks that will make it fun.
And it has never happened in history that an empire, a culture, a civilization annihilates itself in just ten or twenty years. Unfortunately, the West will also succeed in this.
Too bad they didn't tell me about it. They didn't say it would. But they lied that it would last forever. Because history is over. It starts now. It's a shame that we already know exactly its main features.
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