Today was a work day so I had to \u2026 work.\u00a0 But later on, I wrote what I think is an interesting post.\u00a0 But at the last minute I decided to let the American Greatness folks take a look at it in case they want to publish it there.\u00a0 So right now, I haven\u2019t got a nice shiny article to put up on the site here yet.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019ve been thinking lately about the situation of us plain old people who were just minding our own business trying to be good Americans when the people in charge decided to change the rules without bothering to get our consent, or even for that matter to let us know they were doing it.<\/p>\n
I was trying to think of an equivalent case in history and as much as it\u2019s a hackneyed example I keep coming back to the plebians of the Roman Republic.\u00a0 Just as with us the plebians were the source of the strength of the Empire.\u00a0 They were the legions that Rome used to batter the peoples of the surrounding Mediterranean world into submission.\u00a0 But once they had destroyed Carthage, Gaul, Macedon and the other successor states from Alexander\u2019s empire they were expendable.\u00a0 Now that most of Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor were the private estates of the senatorial class and resistance could be handled by a smaller professional army the Roman people were just a burden and a nuisance for their patrician countrymen.\u00a0 And so, they let them rot.\u00a0 Now eventually that would spell the death of the empire but for a couple of hundred years the rich feasted on hummingbird tongues while their former countrymen were turned into serfs.<\/p>\n
And so too have our elites decided we are a nuisance and a burden.\u00a0 But they don\u2019t want us to rot.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want us for serfs.\u00a0 They want us to utterly disappear.\u00a0 The Romans gave the plebes of Rome bread and circuses to keep them amused and out of trouble as they rotted away.\u00a0 Our overlords have selected the internet and fentanyl to do the job.<\/p>\n
And that should be the lesson to learn.\u00a0 Do not allow yourself to be engulfed by the snares that they use to rot your mind and will.\u00a0 Don\u2019t become dependent on the worst aspects of the current system.\u00a0 Learn skills that have value to those around you and use those skills to obtain things that have real value for you.\u00a0 Earn a living, find a mate, form a family, build a life.\u00a0 Mostly everything else is bread and circuses.<\/p>\n
Waiting for Caesar to come along and fix everything is a delusion.\u00a0 When Caesar does appear, he\u2019ll use us to get rid of the other strong men to consolidate his control and continue with bread and circuses.\u00a0 Only the strong and the smart stay free.\u00a0 Only a large and vigorous middle class can hold its own against the robber class.\u00a0 If that middle class disappears you had better find out where they went and head that way too.<\/p>\n