Here is an excerpt from the index of the scarcely printed book ‘Sir John Glubb – The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival’ detailing the natural rise, apex and decline of Empires throughout recorded History.
“As numerous points of interest have arisen
in the course of this essay, I close with a brief
summary, to refresh the reader’s mind.
(a) We do not learn from history because
our studies are brief and prejudiced.
(b) In a surprising manner, 250 years
emerges as the average length of national
greatness.
© This average has not varied for 3,000
years. Does it represent ten generations?
(d) The stages of the rise and fall of great
nations seem to be:
The Age of Pioneers (outburst)
The Age of Conquests
The Age of Commerce
The Age of Affluence
The Age of Intellect
The Age of Decadence.
(e) Decadence is marked by:
Defensiveness
Pessimism
Materialism
Frivolity
An influx of foreigners
The Welfare State
A weakening of religion.
(f) Decadence is due to:
Too long a period of wealth and power
Selfishness
Love of money
The loss of a sense of duty.
(g) The life histories of great states are
amazingly similar, and are due to internal
factors.
(h) Their falls are diverse, because they are
largely the result of external causes.
(i) History should be taught as the history
of the human race, though of course with
emphasis on the history of the student’s own
country.”
Could this sequence be reminiscent of the stage currently present in Western civilization – The Age of Decadence, perhaps?
Where emotion supersedes reason, the men are subservient & fearful towards the women, and undue defensiveness (SJWs and liberals), saturated pessimism (Rise of suicide rates and pessimist subcultures like 4chan), rampant materialism (self explanatory, pop culture and the rise of promiscuity) and excessive frivolity (wayward meme/banter culture & the decline of seriousness) are defining, manifested attributes that crumble a progressive collection of states, or an Empire state.
Roman Empire Comparison to EU/Western States
Allow me to parallel the current situation with the decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, an entity that had enjoyed centuries of unmatched technological, social and economic progression & prosperity, emancipating dark age Europe into civil illumination, and setting the contours of modern day western political systems, as opposed to the backwardness of its predecessor; tribal feudalism.
Take it or leave it, this Bible verse is absolutely right, regardless of your religious orientation, in summarizing the cyclical fate of Empires:
Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV)
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Upon investigating Rome’s fall, you will find an uncanny similarity between the Roman demise and the present day trajectory in near identical regards…
Invasions by Barbarian tribes, the arrival of the Huns & the migration of the Barbarian tribes
It takes very little insight to pin these pivotal factors in Rome’s downfall to the current mass-migration that is completely altering western ways to what is absolutely a barbarian ideology; Shariah Law and other doctrines and trappings of the sociopolitically challenged Qu’ran. While it was Christianity that overthrew the presiding faith in the Roman Empire, we can easily parallel modern day circumstance with Islam eroding the predominant Christian faith. Here’s why Shariah is the culprit.
The contiguous Huns are comparable to ISIS, both driving forces of border denigration & disruption, this vested interest, ever-moving, almost nomadic sect that holds little to no statutory recognition is forcibly pushing migrants up to the proverbial glass pane of Europe and the West’s borders. It is as the Huns conjured with the Barbarian tribes; tribes that unfortunately lacked the sociopolitical advancement & understanding of the Romans, and were reluctantly allowed into Roman lands by necessity, with severe costs. Mass-migration rapidly emerged as a ‘Trojan horse’ of sorts, where irreconcilable differences caused barbarian tribes to rise up against their Roman refuge and seize control.
(When peaceful coexistence broke down) The Romans negotiated a flimsy peace with the barbarians, but the truce unraveled in 410, when the Goth King Alaric moved west and sacked Rome.
The Barbarian attacks on Rome partially stemmed from a mass migration caused by the Huns’ invasion of Europe in the late fourth century. When these Eurasian warriors rampaged through northern Europe, they drove many Germanic tribes to the borders of the Roman Empire.
With the Western Empire weakened, Germanic tribes like the Vandals and the Saxons were able to surge across its borders and occupy Britain, Spain and North Africa (comparable to modern day population replacement). The maladjusted rule of these tribes brought about a dark age with consequentially very little advancement at all for Europe, it was only the renaissance that salvaged Europe, reintroducing many Roman & Greek ideas and their rules of law.
The rise of the Eastern Empire
The Eastern Empire (Like the EU) overrode the West (Like modern Western states), providing another divisive factor in assuring the West would fall in the midst of its barbarian (migrant) and Hun (ISIS) occupiers. With Eastern armies (EU threats, soon to be enforced by an EU army) and embargoes (Economic regulations on member states) supplanting the many strengths of the West, it was only a matter of time before a crack became a crevice in the West’s weakening mettle.
I consider the rise of the EU as an imperial force, and comparably about as equal to the Eastern Roman Empire’s targeting of its Western counterpart.
The EU Empire, (or the Eastern Roman Empire by comparison), has also since turned its back on mutuality regarding the political & legislative reigns of authority, and sapped the EU member states of their defense mechanisms against cultural dilution, and the overthrow of its imperative values by means of crippling economic directives and forced migration policies.
Religious Replacement
In no point in history has the replacement of a dominant religion with another not caused civil unrest, it happened with the fall of Rome, and it’s currently happening with the fall of the Western states. If a certain peoples’ underlying values are taken away, they have little to no common basis to align themselves with, it’s a dastardly formula for palpable civil and religious collapse, and widespread conflict.
Overexpansion and military overspending
This is happening across the West, not just in the EU which has given emphasis to the formation of an EU army. The USA’s military budget is remarkably high at around $600 billion.
The prime issue here is that he who glorifies the sword, is doomed to die by the sword in one way or another, by wreaking havoc in the middle east you make enemies: and culture extremism. By overspending on perpetual war you create a bloated, overextended army that is slow and cumbersome, and burdens its owner with an arms budget drain that saps money from other crucial areas of the state unit. This deficit will undoubtedly come around to afflict havoc on the West in the long term, which is seen all over with mass-unemployment, declining industry, and neglected infrastructure, etc.
As more and more funds were funneled into the military upkeep of the empire, technological advancement slowed and Rome’s civil infrastructure fell into disrepair.
The EU is a sprawling, growing beast of massive proportions, that is still acquiring new states today under the guise of it being a ‘mutual acceptance’ with a few bribes here and there to draw-in the catch, once inside – the political climate changes rapidly to favour Brussels.
Bringing in the likes of Turkey, Ukraine and Romania further extends the EU, it’s only a matter of time before one of the states refuses the ball and chain. The UK, for example, has employed a referendum to do exactly this – an early sign of the gluttonous, over-sized EU meeting its fate.
Weakening of the Roman legions/Patriotism
I pin this cause mainly to the decline of patriotism, the legions’ waning loyalty was a consequential effect of a lack of national pride. It can be seen in the EU with the single army being proposed, and the prolific cultural Marxism that enforces the denigration of national identity – no identity, no need to bind yourself to your nation state’s armed forces, you just enroll at the EU instead.
The ranks of the legions eventually swelled with Germanic Goths and other barbarians, so much so that Romans began using the Latin word “barbarus” in place of “soldier.”
This dilution of an army’s national roots removes the physical defense of a nation state, and relegates a state to written acknowledgement, something that can be written away just as easily with a corrupt, underhand EU directive somewhere down the gloomy road of cultural Marxism – where enough migrant foreigners, personally unaffiliated with their new home, are around to vote it in.
Economic troubles and overreliance on slave labor
The EU bureaucrats love importing cheap labour, thus pushing down the wages and exploiting the desperation of the third world. The need for labour, in the ever-expanding EU, to face the Russian-Chinese powerhouse; has subsequently pushed the dire need for dirt cheap workers to be imported in mass.
Cheap slave labor in turn resulted in the unemployment of the the people of Rome who became dependent on hand-outs from the state.
This will push down public salary satisfaction and overall contentment, the result is yet more instability.
The empire was rocked by a labor deficit. Rome’s economy depended on slaves to till its fields and work as craftsmen, and its military might had traditionally provided a fresh influx of conquered peoples to put to work.
In the hope of avoiding the taxman, many members of the wealthy classes had even fled to the countryside and set up independent fiefdoms.
Antagonism between the Emperor & Senate
Similar in many ways to the growing differences between the EU courts and the various ministers representing their EU member states.
For example, Viktor Orban of Hungary has been at odds with the imposed migration policies forced onto his country by the EU.
‘To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary’ – Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary speaking of the culture-shifting effects of mass-migration.
In Switzerland there have been similar sentiments, this time concerning a ‘Marxist Dream’:
A number of European countries are considering introducing a universal basic income (UBI) – known as the “Marxist Dream” – for all citizens, despite the Swiss voting the policy out at a referendum held on June 5.
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