Lately I\u2019ve been tired.\u00a0 Too much going on.\u00a0 Not enough time to get everything done.\u00a0 And when I\u2019m tired, I think of the strangest things.\u00a0 Probably disorganized thought processes.\u00a0 Probably just free association rattling around in my head.<\/p>\n
But I seemed to see a parallel between the way I am feeling and our world.\u00a0 Our civilization is tired.\u00a0 It\u2019s slowing down.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a pendulum that\u2019s run out of momentum.\u00a0 The original impetus that got it going has been worn away by frictional losses and its motion is ebbing away.\u00a0 Soon it will stop.\u00a0 And once it stops something different and much less satisfactory will take its place.\u00a0 We won\u2019t be marking time with the Newtonian clockwork precision of the pendulum.\u00a0 We\u2019ll measure it by the frantic beat of our hearts as we run in panic from one disaster to the next.<\/p>\n
All signs point to decay and the law of the jungle.\u00a0 The breakdown of law and order in the cities seems to be the new model.\u00a0 The weak will be at the non-existent mercy of the savage and ugliness will be the norm.\u00a0 This all follows the same pattern as past iterations.\u00a0 Rome had its Marius, Sulla, Caesar, Antony and Octavius. \u00a0We have Clinton, Obama, Biden, Trump and DeSantis.\u00a0 These strange monsters appear around the landscape and strut their hour before being replaced by the next monster.\u00a0 The only thing that\u2019s certain is that the progression is a devolution.\u00a0 Each character outdoes its predecessor in weirdness and in the amount of damage it will do to its surroundings.<\/p>\n
Look at the absurd cast.\u00a0 We have the game show huckster.\u00a0 We have the richest man in the world.\u00a0 We have an ancient senile grifter whose bagman son is a drug-addled pervert.\u00a0 Soon we\u2019re sure to have a man dressed as a woman running the world.\u00a0 And finally, we have the prospect that a superhuman artificial intelligence will commandeer our whole human enterprise and possibly pull the plug on all of us.<\/p>\n
The more I look at all this the more certain I am that something has got to give.\u00a0 Somehow, somewhere, a portion of this dying world will break loose and make a new start.\u00a0 It\u2019s just not reasonable to think that all the progress and energy that existed a generation ago has all been snuffed out.\u00a0 A civilization that could harness the atom and send rockets to the outer planets couldn\u2019t just lay down and die, leaving nothing behind.\u00a0 Something will survive.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019m also very certain that the wreckage will be horrendous.\u00a0 For instance, the American cities look to be an almost total loss.\u00a0 Chicago is leading the way in rushing to meet its fate.\u00a0 They\u2019ve recently chosen a new mayor who ran on a defund the police subtext.\u00a0 The recent murder of a policewoman by a couple of teenage thugs just highlights the new power structure in that city.\u00a0 The criminals have the upper hand and the city government won\u2019t challenge them.<\/p>\n
So, the death spiral continues apace and it will get much, much worse before it can even begin to get better.\u00a0 The only part that is difficult to predict is where and how a new civilization will appear.\u00a0 Maybe it won\u2019t even be a western culture.\u00a0 China, India and a few other countries in Asia might hold the seeds to a future renaissance.\u00a0 But in the short term we will have to go through the whole passion play.\u00a0 Next up is the tyrant.\u00a0 Who will be our Caesar?\u00a0 Our Brutus?\u00a0 Or maybe we\u2019ll skip ahead and Hunter Biden will be our Caligula.\u00a0 Only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lately I\u2019ve been tired.\u00a0 Too much going on.\u00a0 Not enough time to get everything done.\u00a0 And when I\u2019m tired, I think of the strangest things.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4099,3885,4097,4098],"class_list":["post-23972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-civiliaztion","tag-decline-of-western-civilization","tag-devolution","tag-winding-down"],"yoast_head":"\n