Ever since Obama’s first election in 2008, I had the feeling that America had already entered – somewhat silently at first – a post-revolutionary state of affairs. The only difference now is that they have decided they are strong enough to show themselves openly as the force in charge! (As Trevor Loudon predicted back in October 2020, they were about to go for broke and risk running “butt-naked” across the finish line – which they did.)
They have activated their shock troops on the ground to spread terror and destruction across the land. They are brutally intimidating everyone into compliance – including parents concerned about CRT being taught to their children in school and people who don’t want to get the “jab” and are now forced to either decide against their physical wellbeing or against their livelihoods. They are ruthlessly shattering at record speed – Cloward-Piven on steroids! – the U.S. (and the world’s) economy; the public health system; the police services; and even America’s defence capability by that same trick of vaccine mandates (apart from forcing their Cultural Revolution on the Armed Forces, no matter what). They have put a spectacular end to American leadership in the world. They are allowing hundreds of thousands, even millions, of Third-Worlders into the country, without vetting or medical examination or anything, and will use these newcomers as their electoral base for an irreversbile communist one-party dictatorship. They are more than ever determined to disarm the American populace and turn them into defenceless sheep. They control, Pravda-style, the major news media and are bullying any and every contrary view out of the public square. All the while, Moscow & Beijing are working feverishly to prepare for their great and murderous feast of World October.
It all looks pretty much like a fait accompli for the Revolution, doesn’t it? And although it’s never over before it’s over, it doesn’t really need a defeatist any more to dryly state: Game over!
A few weeks ago, another commenter (forgot who it was) mentioned a 1978 essay titled, “The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival” by Sir John Bagot Glubb a.k.a. Glubb Pasha (1897 – 1986). Glubb served from 1939 till 1956 as the de-facto commanding officer of Transjordan’s/Jordan’s so-named Arab Legion (the forerunner of the Jordan Royal Army) and in his later years wrote a considerable number of books predominantly on Middle East history,
In “The Fate of Empires” (which, thanks to that other commenter’s tip, I now read), Sir John Glubb, having analysed the rise and fall of about a dozen European and Muslim empires through the centuries, reaches at the conclusion that there may well exist in the life of empires a logic, a fairly uniform pattern, an average lifespan even, from the moment of their coming into being all the way till their eventual demise. He discerns (1) a pioneering phase of “outburst”, in which a formerly marginal nation begins to rise through adventurous expansion, conquest and military heroism. This is followed by (2) a period of greater emphasis on commerce, where a given empire is slowly leaving behind its initial militarism and instead gets increasingly occupied with its ever-growing wealth, which slowly gives way to (3) an ever-more self-saturated society enjoying the splendours of cultural and artistic refinement, as well as convenience, a nation that is able to attract immigrants from all over the place and that thereby is turned from a former nation state into a cosmopolitan centre. The next stage is (4) a period of increasing intellectualism, in which academic life soars like never before and the sciences as well as philosophy reach new heights. (5) The subsequent stage is that of decadence, in which lawlessness increases, principle, morals and religious practice are no longer followed, no attention is paid any longer to military defence and the society as a whole is beginning to fall apart. The end of the cycle is the eventual breakup and demise of an empire, as it gets invaded and carved up among other nations that are, in their own cycles, yet at the beginning of their journey to greatness. The intriguing realisation by Sir John Glubb was also that most of the empires he studied collapsed after a period of more or less 250 years, with five of the eleven empires under investigation ending after 246, 247, or 250 years, respectively.
Which brings us back to America, which right now, counting from the Declaration of Independence of 1776, stands in her 246th year. (Funny enough, for those who are familiar with astrology, Pluto’s orbit is not quite 248 years; Pluto symbolising like no other the course of death and rebirth.)
Could it be that the American “Empire” (so called) has indeed reached the end of its life cycle? Going by the findings of Sir John Glubb, it looks that way, whether we like it or not (beat me up for saying this whatever you want).
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf
Loading…
