“The day has come, the day has come…”
Alan K writes:
“Make no mistake; a dark age is already upon us. It crept in, gradually, and there was no clarion call to man the walls and defend the gate.”
I said a very similar thing a while back here.
All this talk of “the decline” is laughable.
It has already collapsed.
Who goes to church NOW?
Who has an intact family NOW?
Who has a well-paying, secure job NOW?
Precious few.
Our institutions have ALREADY failed and fallen.
Everything you are witnessing now is merely pocket-groups trying to make sense of the chaos.
The coming totalitarian reigime in the Western world will not be “the fall”.
It will be the order following it, imposed by those strong enough to do so.
As it always has been.
And always will be.
Even in our corner, it plays out.
Roissy, Roosh, Rollo, “Bill Powell”, Dr. Illusion, et al, are Feudal warlords.
Each marking their turf, staking claims and testing the bounds of others.
While, ironically, it will end up being Stingray, Sunshine Mary, et al, that form the Byzantine empire.
Breeding an army trumps training one.
As for my part in a story that’s been told before and will be told again centuries from now:
I’ll let clever readers piece it together.
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August 10, 2013 at 10:53 am
Rome went hedonistic and fell…Byzantine went Christian and rose.
Seems a lot like my life at times. I try to keep a good balance though.
August 13, 2013 at 3:39 am
You see why I chose the analogy that I did.
Those are my very reasons.
Well spotted.
August 10, 2013 at 7:14 pm
Yup. There’s a reason I changed professions to a skilled trade. Personal satisfaction is a real one, but so is a desire to be a valuable asset if shit hits the fan. Society can accept the first, but would disdain me for mentioning that I think the world is going to go to chaos quicker and more drastically than most think it will. So, I’m gaining a skill and getting out of Chicago with it as quickly as I can. I hope in a year to be further South, away from all the stupid pension reforms needed by over unionized north that drains their economic life blood.
I always wonder who will make a feudal warlord that says they will, and who will rise up completely unexpected from the masses.
Times may not be fun in the future, but they certainly will be interesting as a trainwreck.
August 14, 2013 at 3:37 am
Curiosity is the only thing that keeps me going. That and five hour energy.
August 14, 2013 at 3:40 am
I sincerely wish you the best.
But remember:
“From end to end with labor keen;
And here, poor fool; with all my lore.
I stand no wiser than before.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust,
August 14, 2013 at 5:10 am
Coffee. So much coffee. And cold showers
August 12, 2013 at 11:41 pm
While I would not disagree that the decline already came, it has not yet went. In fact, things could stand to get a lot worse.
I worry not for I’ll rise through ashes just as well as anything.
August 13, 2013 at 3:39 am
See my following post mentioning “the cascade effect”.
August 13, 2013 at 12:38 pm
I did. I have nothing more add – we are indeed in the cascade effect. See my last post before this one, good sir.
August 13, 2013 at 3:24 am
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August 13, 2013 at 12:04 pm
That is one hell of a compliment, Sir, and I thank you for it.
August 14, 2013 at 3:15 am
I’d like to say “you’re welcome”.
But I’m simply doing what I do.
Making predictions that come to pass.
I’m not the Hand that guides Fate—
But I am the Eyes that See It.
I’m a man; that’s my mission.
Nothing more; nothing less.
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August 14, 2013 at 5:01 am
I guess that makes me a ronin. Or a free agent.
August 14, 2013 at 5:05 am
Quite possibly.
Though, more likely, you’ll be a de facto Byzantine citizen.
August 15, 2013 at 12:21 am
I like this metaphor. I will play the part of the Varangian Guard. It is time for the men of the North to return.
The Shadowed Knight
August 15, 2013 at 3:04 am
If that works for you, go for it.
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