Four Broken Pillars

It seems to me that there are four artificial constructs - social technologies - which make advanced civilization possible... and they're all breaking.

A critique of the book I mention: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/idealism-is-not-great.html

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[ksquared83]

Clarification please:

Harridans? Meaning bitter old women... Rome was full of bitter old women, and that's why the bachelor tax was instituted?

[Aurini]

@ksquared83 Thought experiment: who drives the rising age-of-consent?

On the one hand, we all accept that 15 yo will have sex - my great grandmother was 14 when she married my 23 yo ggrandfather - but it is ILLEGAL to look at pics they post themselves. In Cali, AoC is 18. Pure insanity. See Californication.

If you were a feminist, who slutted around in her 20s, and have grown old, ugly, and bitter, what would your response be to men's natural desire for fecundity? Just sayin'.

[Aurini]

@QxTc9W You're absolutely right; in interviewing Americans, they *say* they're libertarian, but never want to cut spending when specifically asked about a program.

[GTBeauregard]

What should replace religion/humanism? Does their need to be a replacement?

[GTBeauregard]

Impressive talks. Racial cohesion is another pillar. Multiculturalism is another Rome parallel. Multiculturalism makes pride for state impossible since the state is only an extension of family; race is extended family. Once this pride was broken (white guilt), the system was ripe for grievance groups to destroy these pillars. 

The downfall of Rome can be marked by a law (can't remember the name) which allowed freemen to vote - a direct result of pressure from multiculturalism.

[Stonegolem42]

I remember an episode of Mike Duncan's History of Rome Podcast a while ago where he compared the Cold War to the Punic Wars, and then went on to say: "Which, on the Roman timeline, would right now put us somewhere around the rise of the Gracchi brothers. And oh, hey, look, Tea Parties."

Just thought I'd mention that. Great video.

[ksquared83]

another great video.

I pretty much agree with the main thrust. Which begs the questions; how long do we have and how will it play out...

I'm starting to think we might see a second dark age. Sure we have the internet, but as you pointed out in a later video... there is astonishingly little intellectual curiosity or true skepticism....

Lets "live it up" in the meanwhile....

[Aurini]

@CodeManFromTheFuture Which isn't to say I'm *against* Freedom, per se - I certainly enjoy the little bits of it that I'm granted by my Lord and Master Stephen Harper. I just distrust the notion that Freedom exists in the encoding of the universe - like pi, the golden ratio, or one of Plato's 'forms' - explicitly, or implicitly from human neurology (the latter would imply some sort of consistency to our ethical instincts, and I'm fairly certain that *that* doesn't exist).

[Aurini]

@CodeManFromTheFuture Which makes me suspect of the whole nobility of the word 'Freedom' - it's been pushed on us as the One Great Thing (along with Democracy) since we were in diapers. What, precisely, are Freedom and Liberty? Any functional definition - ie freedom from regulation - doesn't seem to capture the spirit with which William Wallace yelled. Did Romans worship Freedom? They used the term Free Man to delineate legal status, but not as mystically as we do today. Hmm...