Western Civilization is now old and decrepit, it has advanced to a stage of moral and spiritual decline from which no civilization can recover, and all the signs of its depraved corruption are abundantly clear to any discerning student of history. Those who imagine they can save this civilization and its sociocultural, socioeconomic, and political structures or even its religious and familial institutions from further breakdown and ruin are sadly ignorant of the cycles and patterns of history.
A “world-as-spoil” mentality and a growing inequality of wealth distribution coupled with increasing command and control, top-down hierarchical diktat over intimate affairs of life once of no concern to such authorities, are transforming the entire society into an authoritarian madhouse to most morally and intellectually honest people. All of this has been oft repeated by every dead civilization that ran its course. Their brittle, fragile societal structures and institutions appeared strong against the common person, but any major natural or man-made challenge sweeps them aside and leads to the end of their proper functioning.
As with every old civilization, the more true and honest souls who deeply revere the pure spiritual essence which once animated that civilization seek to return it to these noble roots and re-found it through reformation and purification of its institutions. While this is a losing battle, the efforts either fail totally and their progenitors suffer the wrath of the morally depraved rulers of that civilization’s institutions or they inadvertently sow the seeds of a new civilization.
Never before in human history has one civilization spanned so much territory as Western Civilization or influenced or infected so many other civilizations with its spirit and its corruption. Today, while Western Civilization has itself become a top-down, corporate and government partnership imposing an increasingly depraved sociocultural worldview and lifestyle throughout its realm, it is also infecting others and using the might of its universal empires, America and the European Union, to punish those powers that refuse to bow to its rainbow gods and its global governance.
We can say that the collapse of Western Civilization will drag almost the entire globe into chaos and upheaval, leading to economic ruin, political chaos, and likely military conflict, among other destabilizing events. The institutions and powers of Western Civilization have their claws in every other country on the planet, thanks in part to a global trade system that has rendered every country interdependent of the rest of the planet and acutely connected to all the vicissitudes impacting any major power.
The fall of the West could take decades, or even a few more centuries, though any major catastrophic event at any time could unravel its sociocultural, socioeconomic, or political institutions within weeks or months. These institutions are already brittle and weak, hence the overreaction and puffed-up arrogance of their leaders who are drawn to authoritarianism like flies to honey. It is over compensation for inner weakness these leaders sense but dare not vocalize.
But regardless of the timline for the physical collapse of every Western power and institution, real ruin and collapse of services and trust, both essential to support individuals and families, is already being felt by a strong plurality of people. As for those whose spiritual and moral values more closely resemble to heritage of the progenitors of Western Civilization, they cannot recognize the present society as anything connected to those ancient values. The very essence of the present society is overtly hostile to the values and traditions present only 50 or so years past and anyone who is older remembers a life that cannot see any trace of that life in the present culture.
Basically, for anyone who still has affection and loyalty to the Judeo-Christian essence of the old civilization finds the present society an affront, a hostile threat, to their values and way of life. For them, if civilization itself is a spiritual and moral reality that nurtures the individual, marriage, faith, family, and community, then it is said that civilization has already collapsed and only a lifeless corpse artificially animated through sheer unnatural force remains.
It is precisely this stage of ruin, evidenced by spiritual and moral depravity, that sees the first signs of the seeds of a new civilization emerge, usually and ironically, among those who tend to wish to revive the old civilization and return it to its roots. The new often emerges within the old through a process known as “withdrawal and advance” whereby the harbingers of the new withdraw into their own sociocultural and socioeconomic structures and communities only to advance after the collapse furthers its negative impact on people’s lives.
Those who build new relationships, associations, communities, structures, and then whole institutions around what become the essentials of the new civilization actually tend to become the progenitors of the ruling class which will stand atop the edifice of the new civilization that must follow. When a small plurality of people both realize the present society is itself a threat to their way of life and that they have the means to erect their own alternative structures to protect their lifestyle and provide for their needs, they begin an internal exile of sorts which disconnects them from the systems of control that rule the old civilization.
This process of withdrawal to advance is as old as civilization itself and seems to be the first step toward surviving past through and past the period of decay. Even as, for those who embrace faith and family as the foundation of life itself, the old civilization has already failed and its structures have already become alien and hostile, the seeds of a new civilization have already begun to sprout.
What follows the collapse of civilization as many once knew it is the early emergence of the alternative associations and structures by which individuals can maintain the ancient ways and shield themselves from the attention and interfere of the old and decadent institutions. It is irony itself that the people who keep trying to redefine sociocultural norms in a manner they perceive to be necessary, evolutionary, modern innovations are in fact reviving a pre-civilizational culture of savage, hedonistic barbarity. They represent the dark past, not the glorious future they pretend to represent.
Blurring the lines of gender and divorcing marriage as an institution of progenation and sociocultural interdependence to render it merely a contract of mutual pleasure-making and transient feelings of fleeting erotic-romantic affection, are the ways of savage uncivilized people. They are the ways of the past, always revived when a civilization is in decline and ruin.
The other irony of times like these is that those deemed backwards and who it is said are clinging to the past, no longer modern or progressive, actually represent the future and the seeds of a new civilization which will transced the old.
The collapse of Western Civilization is aleady well underway and the first signs of rebellion against its morally and spiritually depraved ruling class with their barbaric uncivilized culture are already also present. The new will emerge among the heroic progenitors of a new people and new structures which have deeper spiritual roots in ancient ways.
The progenitors of the new, as pioneers of the first new people or peoples whose inner convictions revive but modernize the ancient ways, will tend over time to survive and thrive, seemingly untouched as the impacts of the collapse hurt many people around them. The old will continue its ruin and those who imagine they represent the future by adopting its depraved cultural norms will feel the sorrowful and painful impact that befalls such a people who defy the eternal laws of cause and effect.
On one hand, and all around, spiritual and moral depravity leads to socioeconomic and physical tragedy for more and more lives. On the other hand, and within and among them, a new people or peoples coalesce around new alternative structures and, despite persecution and marginalization, ultimately experience thriving abundance.
Ruination and tragedy on one hand seems to prevail as most people adopt the uncivilized sociocultural norms being imposed by a corrupt ruling class. But on the other hand abundance and prosperity emerge within alternative structures and communities animated by what will become the spiritual essence of the new civilization.
Those who have clear eyes to see that the modern innovations aren’t progress but a regression to barbaric and dark times of ruin will tend to embrace the new and, as new structures emerge, here and there, they will shift their loyalty from the old standards to the new banners of unity. The emergence of the new civilization may look like a sort of renewal of the ancient ways, albeit in a modern adaptation, but it becomes a further advancement of human civilization itself, a next evolution toward a better future of abundance and happiness.
The ancient ways show us the future and next evolution of society, the modern innovations which are divorced from those ways are merely a throwback to pre-civilizational savagery. People who seriously debate or are confused by gender identity are not civilized in an advanced way, they have become barbaric savages driven by animal lusts and instincts that defy the laws of Creation itself to their own hurt and shame.
In advanced civilization, the great questions are centered around what the laws of creation truly are, but in savage times, especially the latter days of a doing civilization, the very notion such laws exist is questioned or, even if they may somewhat be acknowledged, the “great” questions center around WHY the Creator made or allowed those laws. Why would the Creator punish people for not serving or loving them and why would they create people even capable of defying those laws knowing the consequences to those people?
Asking unlearned questions without an answer any human can give is in fact fostered by the culture of a barbaric society that can’t be bothered with truth or practical wisdom, with laws of cause and effect as they actually are and which we cannot control or question. The deeper question is not “why did the Creator make this so” but “what is so and how can I use these laws of cause and effect to avdance my own life?”
An advanced civilization is not interested in the inner psychic satisfaction of individuals in ever-learning and debating without coming to knowledge so much as understanding the laws of Creation and avdancing the physical and mental as well as eternal well-being of each individual. When one ceases the advancement toward true enlightenment as to the laws of creation, the habit is to pursue mental gymanistics and doubts that avail nothing of concrete good.
Why does the Creator allow this or that and why are people who defy the Creator and Creation’s laws punished? These are interesting questions some may from time to time ponder, but the answer is inscrutable. Those who obsess over them have little time to seek true and practical knowledge that tends toward wellness and happiness.
Understanding the way of Creation is not easy, it is as if it wasn’t meant to be this way, which may lead one to ask why this is. Why didn’t the Creator make these things more clear, why even are the ancient sacred Scriptures so demanding of spiritual and mental maturity and disciplined study and why are these things so easily misunderstood and misrepresented?
Again, this is an interesting and entertaining exploration, but if it prevents a person from actually exploring the way things are in order to utilize that wisdom for practical ends, then this question will have to become of minor importance.
All the questions of “why did the Creator do or not do thus and so” have their place, but they lack depth and substance if the desire is to thrive both in this world and the world to come. The focus on non-essentials which replace essential and practical questions of human action and interaction is par for the course of a dying civilization and a moribund culture.
Advanced civilization succeeds largely to the degree it answers “what are the laws of Creation and how can we use them” as opposed to “how dare the Creator make such laws!” The progenitors of the new civilization begin to rebel against and disavow the sociocultural norms of the old, which have devolved to questions that do not profit the individual and which cannot be answered by mortals. The heroes of advancement and renewal tend to focus on the actual laws of nature and of nature’s God and how best to profit from this in this life and the next.
The old devolves and calls it progress, the new seems to look backwards but advances to new heights never known by humanity until now. This remains a humor of history.
There are real reasons to be circumspect and careful during these interesting times of historical transfiguration, but for those who first see and embrace the ways of the new civilization, there is no real need to fear or feel doom and foreboding. The old civilization and its structures will present real challenges and troubles, but their entire basis defies the laws of Creation, therefore they will eventually falter and fail. The new civilization has its basis in the laws of Creation and as its alternative structures emerge they will become more and more impervious to the attentions of the old and corrupted structures.
A new civilization is upon us and within some of us, those with an advanced wisdom and purity of heart who alone during such times can see past the endless and troubling noise of a dying and depraved culture and its illogical and barbaric propaganda. In our lives and on our lands, among our people and alternative structures and communities, the blessings and prosperity which accompany advanced civilizations will be felt and experienced regardless of what the surrounding society experiences.
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