Mencius on the Fall

Mencius addresses the question:  Does today’s US resemble the late Roman Empire in the west, or the late Roman Republic, in his usual wonderfully cryptic, long winded, and obscure fashion.

Mencius’s proposed solution to our crisis, oligarchy or military dictatorship, assumes that America is analogous to the late Roman Republic.  The people have become too degenerate to rule themselves, and so must be ruled by others.   In his latest post, however, he considers the possibility that there really is no solution.

Mencius gives us lengthy quotes from Prudentius, 403 AD.  Prudentius is confident in the immense military superiority of the US Rome, the pacific nature of Rome’s largely Christian enemies, and that the gigantic horde of idlers on welfare is a sign of economic strength.

Mencius neglects to mention, but assumes that we will know, that Rome was sacked, but not raped, in 410AD by Goths.The Goths left after looting the place for three days, but Rome never recovered.  Law and order, long declining, collapsed, ending commerce. The state revenues that had supported the idle poor and the decadent rich, long declining, collapsed.  Rome’s enemies ceased to fear Rome, and over time many of Rome’s subjects fled Rome because there was no money, no food, and no way to make a living.  In 410 AD, Rome did not fall in the sense that France fell to Germany in 1939.  It fell in it that it lost the will and ability to maintain order, and perhaps forgot that order is something that needed to be maintained, forgot what order was.

Prudentius’ happy, confident, and blatantly deluded view of enemies and economics is strikingly reminiscent of today’s Cathedral, but history does not repeat itself in collapse. Just as all happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is different, or, as we would say today, diverse, each collapse is different. Press hard on a pane of glass till it shatters, and each will shatter differently.  The rise of each civilization is much the same as all the others, the fall is always different.

Still, if you walk around with your eyes closed, you are bound to walk into something, and if you have your eyes closed against enemies and economics, you will walk into war and economic collapse.  War, lack of cohesion within the army, and economic collapse, are apt to result in shocking and surprising military defeat.

Although the large, overpaid and overpensioned logistic part of the US army is satisfactorily diverse, post Christian, and post marriage, satisfactorily to the Cathedral, the underpaid and shrinking part of the army that actually fights is still white, male, married and Christian.  The Cathedral attacks their culture, by such measures as gay rights, which undermines unit cohesion.  This may explain the startlingly poor recent performance of European forces.

You could integrate gays into the military by having all hetero units in which sodomy was subject to the death sentence, and lack of traditional masculinity was subject to severe punishment, and having all gay units in which normal sex was subject to the death sentence and the presence of traditional masculinity subject to severe punishment, but integrating gays at the unit level is an attack on unit discipline, morale, and culture.

Multiculturalism and diversity leaves everyone feeling like strangers and outsiders, which is bad for society in general, causing everyone to trash stuff and everyone to prey upon each other, and particularly and extraordinarily bad for unit cohesion.  Muslims in Britain are markedly more criminal than in their homeland, and blacks in racially integrated suburbs are markedly more criminal, and suffer higher rates of imprisonment and deaths from tension related diseases, than blacks in all black suburbs – because they feel like outsiders, and view themselves as preying upon outsiders.

Segregation disadvantaged poorer blacks by protecting white working class jobs from black competition, but it advantaged middle class blacks by protecting middle class black jobs from white competition. This created a homogeneous black society dominated by the black middle class, in which the black middle class imposed middle class values, hence less black crime, less black on black crime, less danger, less stress, more black marriage.  Integration and multiculturalism is immensely hurtful to everyone, and especially hurtful to the fragile, to members of inferior groups. Nowhere is this damage more apparent than in the army.  If we are going to have gays fighting, they should be in gay battalions, and if we are going to have blacks fighting (which, in practice we mostly do not, they generally wind up doing logistics), they should be in black battalions.  Military will comes from unit cohesion, and the more diverse the group, the harder to achieve cohesion.

A different culture, a different kind of society, could have gays integrated in the military and it would be no big deal.  The Cathedral is trying to convert us into that kind of society, but as with the Arab Spring, they are going about it in entirely the wrong way.  Gay Marriage, and teaching gays to hate and that they are hated, is exactly the opposite of the kind of measures that would be effective.  Similarly, if you want to integrate Muslims into Britain, you would have to make them believe that they are Englishmen first, and Muslims third or fourth, you would need a self confident culture that proceeds with cultural and social domination – pretty much the way segregation imposed white middle class culture on the black middle class that segregation created, who then proceeded to impose it on working class blacks.

Secondly, the elements of the army that do the actual fighting should be the most privileged, the part of the army that has high status. Fighting should be where promotions come from.  We need to see a lot fewer high ranking army officers with the “expert infantry man badge”, a badge awarded for expertise in keeping oneself out of military activities that might get one shot at.  Actual fighting soldiers should have higher legal status than ordinary civilians, whereas at present they have lower legal status.  A military husband is at a substantial disadvantage when divorced, compared to a non military husband, which contributes the extraordinarily high divorce rate among white fighting men.   An ordinary civilian woman is rewarded in the short term with cash and prizes for destroying the life of her husband and the lives of her children, but this goes double if she is married to a military man – which is part of the Cathedral program of destroying the culture that they hate and despise, unfortunately destroying the fighting spirit of the army in the process.

But while the US, and the west generally, is cruising for an extraordinary and startling military defeat, this will not, in itself, cause reformation.  It did not cause reformation in Rome.

To reform the US, we need an internal, rather than merely external crisis.  The end of the Roman Republic led to a regime that was, for two centuries, pretty good.  The fall of Rome led only to chaos and despair.  When the Romans fled Britain, the Romano Britons were genocided by the Angles and the Saxons, who in turn were subjugated and raped by the Danes, raped with quite remarkable thoroughness, who in turn were conquered by a remarkably tiny handful of Normans, and only then, after six hundred years of quite extraordinary ruin, did the situation stabilize.

On the mainland of Europe, the situation stabilized rather sooner, under Charles the Hammer, who became a coalition leader among the pirates and brigands that overran the Roman empire, but there were still two centuries of horrifying economic and population decline leading up to Charles the Hammer, so let us hope we repeat the fall of the Roman Republic, rather than the fall of the City of Rome.

It is difficult to say why the failure of Romano-Britain was so stupendously horrible, because its history, buildings, culture and people, were so very thoroughly obliterated.  The only significant Romano-British survival was Wales, which was the least Romanized part of Romano-Britain, in that finds of Roman coins have been least in Wales.  So there was something about Roman social decay that rendered the Romano British permanently incapable of defending themselves.  The legend of King Arthur and the knights of the round table originates from Romano-Britain, though every detail other than that his name was Arthur and the table was round was made up at later times.  The table was round, to symbolize equality, that the table had no head, which, on the face of it, seems an obviously disastrous way to run a military organization, or indeed any organization.  It sounds like the defense of Romano-Britain was run by the Occupy movement, which if so would explain the near total annihilation of the Romano-British.

Now obviously if America is going to fall to its enemies, imitating the fall of Rome in 410AD, which led to utter ruin lasting centuries, rather than the fall of the Republic in 48 BC, which led to recovery and greatness, Europe will fall before the US does.  So how is Europe going?

After Britain’s shocking and humiliating defeats in Basra, the Persian Gulf, and Helmand province, Iran did not occupy Britain and take down the British flag, nor was it ever likely that it would, but Britain has subtly and almost imperceptibly changed from indulging its Muslim minority out of political correctness, to privileging its Muslim minority because Britons are scared spitless of them.  The British flag is not coming down because Iranian troops took it down, it is coming down because Britons are afraid it might cause offense.  If Europe’s economy still functions, it is because European assets are still tolerably secure, and they are secure because of US hegemony.  If the US should suffer the military defeats that Britain suffered, and these defeats were to cause the loss of spirit, soul, and will that Britain suffered, then there would be no US hegemony, in which case assets would need to be secured by some other means.

In the US, which has cultural and legal tradition allowing property owners to use firm measures against intruders and guests who overstay their welcome, the Occupy movement was decisively smacked down whenever it confronted private owners.  It would take one or two generations of victim disarmament before Americans became as passive, helpless, and frightened as today’s Britons.

The end of US hegemony would not necessarily mean economic collapse similar to that of Rome, if there was will and ability to maintain a free economy and security of property rights by some other means, but I do not see that will in Britain, so an age as dark as that following the fall of Rome is possible, though by no means inevitable.  The end of US hegemony is likely to cause economic collapse in much of Europe because a general lack of will and fighting spirit is evident in much of Europe..  There are parts of America where it might not necessarily cause economic collapse.  The problem however might well be that in the US, as in Britain, the government might remain strong enough to stop people from defending what is theirs, but become too weak to defend what is its subjects, as terrible to its subjects as it is becoming contemptible to its enemies.