Gnidrologist said:
Humanityu has been in ''moral decline'' always. Because there weren't any straight and virtuos society ever. If one believes in that, one believes in fairy tale.
The fact that now we can know what any average joe likes to
fuck in his spare time doesn't mean it's something new.
Does someone, besides Cleve, really believe, that this ''moral decline'' and the overflow of trash information that we are showered via various media, especially internet, is just a coincidence?
In, say, 19th century tale about some old geezer, who raped his daughter for 24 years in the basement would not go further than local neghborhood and police protocols. Now everyone and his dog is exposed to
sutch information.
Some people really have too mutch illusions about the nature of human being. Internet, besides it's sheer entertainment value, is a good mirror, that honestly depicts all the various sides of us. No need to pretend, that it's just a product of some mythic decadance. Don't lie to yourself. We are what we are. Period.
This is what the televitz wants to train you to believe. It's wrong.
Don't start foaming, just wait a second and listen to me.
The most important feelings that our ancestors had, that modern people could not understand, are
fear and shame. Oprah says it's a bad thing. She would, being a teen mother who aborted her child.
Let's compare modern people and Americans of fifty years ago, I'll show you the difference.
1. Men fifty years ago knew shame. They were fearful of being exposed as people of bad character, thought depraved or creatures of impulse. They had prodigious amounts of face to consider at all times. Not just bad people, either - people we would consider enormously virtuous sweated over tiny trivial details of their life they worried might expose them to scandal. Fifty years ago, your daughter being pregnant out of wedlock could actually require you to
leave the country from sheer embarrassment. That's right.
2. Modern people scarcely have any acquaintance with these emotions. The only thing left in the world (Theodore Dalrymple, again, writes about this in his most recent book) that can make a modern person feel shame is to accuse them of child molestation or racism. Other than that, the sky is the limit. There is almost nothing else that can even prompt people nowadays to reflect on their own actions. For all intents and purposes, modern man is the first human generation to be born without any conscience of any kind in over a thousand years or more. That's how different they are from previous eras. Your average person knows no right or wrong outside of political correctness, which was formerly considered utterly different from codes of personal conduct.
3. Even more incredibly, scandal nowadays does not ruin a man, rather it enriches him and gives him social opportunity and access that might have previously been impossible. John Bobbit turned his ugly penchant for wife abuse and the resulting amputation of his penis into a lucrative career in the porn industry. The worse the bastardry, the higher a man can set his sights. George W. Bush has led a life of vice, villainy and sloth so appallingly abhorrent that in prior times he might have been a candidate for a lynch mob. Today he is President of the United States and has been for two terms.
4. This dysgenics does not just rule the broad public sphere. At every level of our society, men who clearly show signs they are sociopaths by nature tend to occupy our institutions and provide everyone else with the standard by which they will be judged. It's a dictatorship of the least, the worst and the weakest and most offensive.
Now rather than allow ourselves to get overstimulated by this insight, let's stay iceberg cool and think about previous eras. The final days of the Roman Empire are suspiciously similar, with a rogue's gallery of murderous monstrosities who seemed to lack any human compassion of any kind. Nero set fire to Rome and killed hundreds because he wanted to redesign it's layout. Caligula didn't just have his rivals killed, he had them tortured for years to madness. They poisoned, stabbed, burned and plotted their lives and the empire itself away for the sake of their mad desire for power.
Rome wasn't like that at all in the beginning. Neither was America. It's only like this at the end.
So all of that to present my summary.
Ascending societies are founded and fostered by people who are sincere.
Declining societies are looted and destroyed by sociopaths.
In terms of who occupies the institutions, the people in a society that is ascending are the biological anti-matter opposite of the people who ride it out into Ragnarok. Not just the people in the history books, either, but rather many men who never had biographers.
Again, I suspect biology somewhere at the root of all of this great cyclic recurrence.
P.S. Wherever you wake up/are born on this parabola, you are foolish indeed if you think you can change it one iota. That's not an adult perspective. You can only change your own destiny but you cannot intervene in the destiny of a civilization. If you look at any mosaic or depiction of destruction carved by ancient peoples, you will always see people in the lower right corner somehow surviving to make their way to safety. The only intelligent thing to strive for in times like ours is to someday appear at that place in that mural.
