The Rotted Out Western Empire

I'm trying to save my rusty old F-250 from the junk yard.

As I'm working on the thing, it provides an almost bewildering amount of information, not only about its construction and design, and the flaws of that design versus the weather in snowy areas of the country, but also about the typical "man of letters" life, and also the cycles of Empire growth and almost immediate death.

There's barely an interim period of stability. It seems like the Post WW2 Anglo/Jew/American Empire grew after the turn of the 19th century, then bloomed and peaked out between WW2 and the early 1970s. It's been on decline since then, and on a turbo-charged downward trajectory since the scam of 9-11-2001, and now is on the funeral pyre of the covid hoax.

Empires have an age of expansion. The technology, knowledge and organizational techniques of one people allows them to dominate others and to bring them under their system. The people who lord over Empires are all of the same kind. They only understand novelty, growth and expansion. The more humdrum day-to-day tasks of maintaining things and the bottomless pit costs of maintaining all of the new infrastructure of their domain doesn't appeal to them at all. They like shiny new buildings and monuments and seemingly lack the ability to preserve things. You see this behavior at all levels of society from the wealthiest oligarchs down to the most mundane administrator of some small government agency.

It's fitting that the financial system we are subjects of is a tool of growth and building and hiding maintenance costs of all kinds. It apparently has almost zero capability to preserve things, or to foster durable construction or long term infrastructure projects. Since it extracts wealth via debt payments and dilution of currency, it has to always "run". Everyone ends up on a perpetual treadmill.

The "man of letters" of the Empires all look the same, too. The hangers-on and courtiers of these systems are all of a kind. Rather than toil or labor, they sit, talk and influence. You get an Aristotle hanging out with the Macedonian court, for example. They end up in service of that expansion, too.

Anyway, it's not a surprise that Empires suddenly perish. They fall apart all at once; the accumulated sunk cost and maintenance outstrips the productivity of the whole thing, plus the dirtbags who run the Empire are continuously plundering it from within. The Afghanistan invasion and occupation is a great example--it cost more to wage the war and occupy the country than its possibly worth, and it seems like the plunder of that country, including the opium is all going into private hands. The "graveyard of Empires" is apt.

It seems like the dirtbags that run the western Empire are making a desperate attempt to keep their dominion over their people with the Covid scam. I wonder if there's any similar con job that went on in Britain during the waning days of that Empire.