{"id":25258,"date":"2023-08-19T09:53:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T13:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=25258"},"modified":"2023-08-19T09:53:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T13:53:43","slug":"panem-et-circenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/19\/panem-et-circenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Panem Et Circenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI recollect, when I was lamenting to the Doctor the misfortunes of the American war, and exclaimed, “If we go on at this rate, the nation must be ruined; he answered, “Be assured, my young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation<\/u>.”\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1776 England was among the greatest nations on Earth.\u00a0 And this in multiple measures.\u00a0 Financially, economically, scientifically, militarily, geographically, even culturally it was a power to be reckoned with.\u00a0 So, when Adam Smith opined that even defeat in the American War of Independence wouldn\u2019t topple Great Britain, he was correct.\u00a0 And history has many examples of great powers sustaining a terrible loss and recovering.<\/p>\n

But history is also full of great nations abandoning the practices that made them great and falling into ruin.\u00a0 And although the fall may be gradual, nevertheless, the ruin is assured by the reversal inherent in the loss of so important a characteristic.\u00a0 There may be a great deal of ruin in a nation but once the well-being of the citizens is no longer the driving force behind its government that ruin is assured and the greater the nation the more dramatic the fall.<\/p>\n

And as in so many discussions of the American republic we always seem to come back to Rome as the exemplar of a republic that began as a wildly successful partnership between the common people and the elites and ended up as a tyrannical oligarchy where most citizens were impoverished serfs who were essentially slaves to the rich landowners.<\/p>\n

Of course, it took about five hundred years for this change to destroy Rome but it is patently obvious that it was the freedom of the Roman citizens in their heyday that made the Roman legion the most fearsome fighting force of the ancient world.\u00a0 They were fighting for their small farms and families.\u00a0 These were things worth fighting and dying for.\u00a0 But by the fifth century A.D. your average Roman commoner didn\u2019t own anything and wouldn\u2019t care whether he was ruled by a Frank, a Visigoth, a Hun or a Roman emperor.\u00a0 So why would he fight to maintain the empire?\u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 And so, it fell.<\/p>\n

What about us?\u00a0 How do we end up?\u00a0 Well, currently the globalists have been announcing that in the future \u201cyou won\u2019t own anything and you\u2019ll like it.\u201d\u00a0 That sounds an awful lot like bread and circuses to me.\u00a0 We\u2019re creating a state that has no patriotic aspect to it.\u00a0 Now whether such a state can exist in the current international environment is an open question.\u00a0 But I would say that the idea that such a country could be a militarily dominant state doesn\u2019t seem likely.\u00a0 I think that will be on display going forward.\u00a0 Currently, the American nuclear arsenal acts as a powerful deterrent against the great powers attacking the country.\u00a0 But the idea of using the threat of nuclear annihilation to coerce Hungary or Afghanistan into celebrating gay pride seems kind of absurd.\u00a0 So, we can conclude that our influence around the world will diminish along with the diminution of our military and economic power.<\/p>\n

So, what will we look like going forward?\u00a0 Probably like an updated version of England.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be the former hegemon slowly muscled out of all the territories we used to dominate.\u00a0 And we already see it.\u00a0 Asia and Africa are already going their own ways.\u00a0 Then the Americas and finally Europe.\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 The day could come when even Canada starts kicking sand in our face.\u00a0 That would be the bottom.<\/p>\n

There is nothing certain about the arc of our historical relevance as a great power.\u00a0 The elites that currently embrace all of the madness that is leading us to ruin could wake up tomorrow and decide that, \u201cWait a minute, a closed border and resurgent industrial policy is exactly what the Democratic party has always stood for.\u00a0 And weren\u2019t Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis magnanimous in defeat and shouldn\u2019t we let bygones be bygones?\u00a0 And what the hell is going on in the cities with criminals running amok?\u00a0 Law and order is the Democrat way.\u201d\u00a0 Hell, they wouldn\u2019t even have to let Donald Trump out of prison.\u00a0 They\u2019d claim he had been the woke problem all along.\u00a0 After all we\u2019ve always been at war with Eastasia.<\/p>\n

They could do this because the underlying motivation is their own self-interest.\u00a0 If the globalist project suddenly founders then it will be all aboard the new American century with red, white and blue bunting and hip, hip hooray for our boys.\u00a0 We can even expect another attack on the \u201chomeland\u201d at some point.\u00a0 But as the Roman elites eventually discovered slaves don\u2019t make very convincing legionnaires.\u00a0 And I think we may be past the point where American troops will dominate the world stage.\u00a0 So even if there is a pivot to sanity, we won\u2019t again approach what we were in 1941 or even 2001.\u00a0 Americans just aren\u2019t going to buy into it again.\u00a0 We\u2019re just another declining empire with puppet masters pulling the strings and the serfs trying to avoid the consequences of the next reflexive spasm of the great dying beast.<\/p>\n

And so, as I said earlier, there may be a great deal of ruin in a nation but once the well-being of the citizens is no longer the driving force behind its government that ruin is assured and the greater the nation the more dramatic the fall.\u00a0 And depending on the surrounding circumstances the fall isn\u2019t necessarily slow. \u00a0Keep your eye on the exits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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