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In Defense of Racism
Part 7 - The Price of Empire
by Edgar J. Steele
September 13, 2003
Part 1 - Overview (released June 30, 2003) Part 2 - Intellectual Myths (released July 12, 2003) Part 3 - Genetic Realities (released July 19, 2003) Part 4 - Cultural Imperatives (released August 2, 2003) Part 5 - National Disasters (released August 10, 2003) Part 6 - The Masters of Disaster (released August 25, 2003) Part 7 - The Price of Empire (released September 13, 2003) Part 8 - The Future (to be released)
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite." ---"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," Plate 14, William Blake, 1791
"This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I'll never look into your eyes...again" --- "The End," The Doors, 1967
"There is no fool like an old fool." --- Proverb
It has become a trite symbol of middle age: economic and social success well in hand, the 45-year-old guy chucks it all, giving up his wife, his children, everything, for a fling. He buys a red Corvette and leaves town with his secretary. Only gradually does he begin to appreciate the immensity of his earlier good fortune. But it is too late. No fool like an old fool. "The end, my friend," as Jim Morrison might have said.
Countries are like that, too. Nations go through discernible periods. Though the length of time in each phase might vary, the progression is inevitable. And the end is never pretty.
I'm reminded of Gail Sheehey's "Passages," an excellent book, the research for which she is accused of having plagiarized extensively, by the way. "Passages" describes the seasons of a man's life as he grows older, noting how there are certain stages through which all men go. I started reading it in my late twenties, about thirty years ago. I found it eerily accurate - so much so that I put it down when I reached the point where I supposed I actually was in my life back then. I closed the book then and to this day it sits there on the shelf, daring me. "Come see how predictable you are," it seems to hiss, every time I notice it there.
Of course, it is perfectly reasonable that I would be predictable, given how greatly I am ruled by my genes. We all are, of course. Faithful followers of this series have seen developed my thesis that much of one's behavior is driven by genetic encoding.
I believe that societies go through similarly predictable stages. We can see ourselves reflected in the Roman Empire, to which modern America is compared endlessly. Carthage. India. Egypt. Their empires all progressed the same. They all ended the same. Badly. Why should we suppose that America will be any different?
It is far more than simply the insufferable arrogance of empire that leads to its downfall. And more than the economic laziness that develops as the result of having too much. The real key is in the racial makeup of empires.
Always, empire starts with a pure strain of overachievers. Always, empire ends with a strongly-diluted populace; diluted by havenots, ne'erdowells and intellectual inferiors.
Always, empire begins with strong leaders. Hard times breed hard men. Always, empire ends with weak sisters in charge. Empire attracts and fosters the weak and the spineless, creating a survival of the least fit, discouraging their masculine forebears. Look for a leadership structure where the same name repeats: Caesar, for example. Or Bush. Or, God forbid, Clinton. That is a mark of the end of empire.
Generally, I avoid references. However, another has gone so far beyond me in documenting the racial impact upon empire breakup that I won't attempt, even, to summarize his work. In "March of the Titans," A South African named Arthur Kemp painstakingly has outlined the rise and fall of empires from the dawn of time until modern times. A truly spectacular work that I wholeheartedly recommend. Go here for an on-line version:
[url=http://www.stormfront.org/whitehistory/]http://www.stormfront.org/whitehistory/[/url]
Human society is made up of humans. Humans are eminently predictable, therefore the interplay of humans, known as society, also is predictable, provided one can get one's mental fingers around the concept. Admittedly, it is a complicated model that one must construct in one's mind. But complexity can be modeled.
We model the stock market and, though we cannot establish exact timing (and timing in the stock market, more than most things, literally is everything), we know full well how things will go: the market goes up, then it goes down. Realize this and grow rich. Buy low, sell high. Easy, n'est pas? Based on results, no.
Most people get caught by the market, therefore most people are unable to comprehend that it moves both directions. How else could one possibly explain those who have been buying stocks for the past couple of years? Incredibly, some still are buying stocks. Witness the fact that the market still is near all-time highs, despite exhibiting clear signs of being in a long-term downtrend.
Most are unable to see trends until they have passed. Forests and trees, and all that. But we certainly can see other forests. Just as we can see other empires and thereby know what lies ahead for America. But most people won't. That's why middle America will not march on Washington next week and hang all the politicians from lampposts, as it should.
If only our "doors of perception" could be cleansed, Blake-like.
As an aside, Jim Morrison and friends took the name of their band from the Blake snippet quoted above, so impressed were they with the imagery therein contained. Similarly smitten was Aldous Huxley, the philosopher/author best known for "Brave New World," who titled his landmark work, "The Doors of Perception," a book which also served to inspire Morrison and company. Better than most, the Doors managed to fuse existential poetry and improvisation into their rock music and become the spiritual house band to a generation.
No longer do people debate whether America's is an empire; the fact is taken for granted. That perhaps is the surest indicator that we are well past the peak. When I heard cab drivers and hotel doormen in San Francisco discussing their stock portfolios a little over three years ago, I suspected the end of high-tech market mania was at hand.
We see the same things at work in America as seen during the decline of empires past. We bring back those we have conquered to till the fields and clean our houses. The borders are thrown open, due to both need and external pressure. We import our necessities and indulgences alike because the cost of transport is insufficient to allow our own inflated sense of worth to compete. We indulge in sloth because we can. Comfort becomes our master.
The very perquisites of empire are what inevitably bring it low. The curse of success. With massive immigration comes massive miscegenation. We send the best of our youth to distant lands, there to die while foolishly we maintain our hegemony. We lose our edge, our training, our skills, our will. We become bored and jaded, turning increasingly to frivolous and debauching pastimes.
Unfettered consumption leads to gluttony, an inability to produce and, inevitably, to poverty, which increases the pressure for more war, more conquest, more comforts, in a neverending downward spiral.
Buy low, sell high. We may not be sure of the timing, but we can be certain of the sequence of events. America's sequence clearly is in the downtrend. And empires never recover once they hit the skids.
No empire like an old empire.
Usually, it takes a long time for an empire to unravel. But, times are different. Things move with the speed of jets these days, as opposed to clipper ships and camel trains.
Also, today finds America firmly in the grip of a faction which is hastening the process consciously. America is ruled by globalists. It isn't that America's leaders are globalists, they merely do the bidding of their financial masters: the international banking families, the true globalists. Jews, mostly.
America is headed where it is because its masters think globally. That is always the problem with empire - the view of its masters becomes lengthened and their perspective thereby eradicated. What is good for empire, which is where the globalists dwell, is never good for the country originating the empire. Once under way, there is no way to stop an empire gracefully. Always, the source country suffers miserably in the end. America will be no different.
There is an ancient writer, Plutarch, if memory serves, who recounted a conversation involving Pyrrhus, a Greek king near the end of the Grecian empire, who discusses the point of conquest with a friend. "To be free to do what I wish," is a paraphrase of Pyrrhus' reason for marching off to conquer others. "But," the friend inquires, "you can do that now. Why go to war and risk all this?" subsequently, Pyrrhus went off to war and conquered portions of the then-expanding Roman empire, albeit at a colossal cost in men and equipment, thus the origin of the term "Pyrrhic victory." Eventually, Pyrrhus was defeated, then killed, by legions of the growing Roman empire.
That is the price of empire. Better by far to be the vanquished. Just ask the Japanese.
Of course, one of the pieces of the old British Empire did ascend to a position of some importance. We called it the land of the free and the home of the brave. Might not a piece of this American empire do the same?
New America. An idea whose time has come.
-ed
"I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth." - Morpheus
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