As those of you who follow these wandering pages know I have
recently re-aligned my life to turn and face the strange changes
that are overtaking Western Civilization with ever increasing speed. Like ripples whose shape and size shifts but
never leave the stream, change is the only constant in a society careening
towards a cliff.
The descendants of those who built the empire no longer
produce enough children to man the walls. The will to win and the desire to
excel has been replaced by a complacency bred of bread, circuses, and
entitlement checks distributed by a perpetually re-elected legislature designed
to keep the marks from catching the con. A series of lack-luster presidents set
the stage for collapse. One declares a
new world order and then loses his bid for re-election to a saxophone playing
party-boy. This surprise president sets
the morality bar so low his scurrilous actions and obvious lack of character
corrupt the very fiber of our nation.
The next two expand the government and spend us into oblivion.
Empires rise and empires fall. That is the way of the world and the lesson
of History. From the 15th
century through the 20th Western Civilization used a temporary
advantage in technology to conquer the world.
Where our military conquered we imposed our culture. Where we didn’t gain political control the
vision of our seemingly invulnerable strength and our unstoppable progress led
local leaders to discard much of what was theirs to imitate what they coveted
of ours.
For five centuries Western Civilization ruled supreme. It was our way or the highway so in our pride
we decided ours was the High Way
The destruction of the economies and populations of the
various colonial powers inevitably led to the break-up of the empires and the
rise of a bi-polar world that pitted a world-wide Communism that was inimical
to everything Western Civilization stood for against a united West now led by
the newest edition to their ranks: the United States.
We had allied ourselves with the Communists to defeat the
Fascists. However the victory of 1945
vanished into fifty years of a Cold War that flashed hot enough times to kill
many tens of thousands. This epic
struggle brought the Communists to their knees and us to the edge of
bankruptcy. As we defeated Communism its
less threatening little brother Socialism crept in the back door. We adopted the tenants of socialism: equality
of outcome financed by expropriation and wealth and re-distribution to pacify
our population through the long war.
Today we are fast becoming all we have fought against for the last sixty
years: a centrally-planned economy, a regimented society, and a totalitarian
state.
This century long series of debilitating wars sapped our
will to reproduce just as technology gave us birth control and lax morals gave
us abortion. This unholy trinity turned
into a demographic time bomb that ensures the eventual submerging of the
peoples of the West beneath waves of immigrants swarming in to take their place.
The moral rot swilled out from Hollywood
Sounds like a dismal picture doesn’t it? The most depressing part of the whole thing
is that it is true.
Empires rise and empires fall and it is our lot to live on
the declining end of Western Civilization: the greatest empire of all time (so
far).
No one ever gets to live in the world they were raised
in. Time moves on and things
change. However most generations don’t
watch the inversion of the world they grew up in. Today things we thought were wrong are now
right. Things we thought were right are
now wrong. What made you healthy yesterday
kills you today. The wisdom of the
ancients was once sought after in a world of constants today obsolesce often
proceeds production in a microwave throw-away culture.
The world has been turned upside down.
Just as a British general marched out of Yorktown to
surrender to a rag-tag bunch of summer soldiers, so we the children of those
who stormed the beaches on D-Day to free Europe and end the darkness that was
Nazism will wonder how were we defeated
by those we had once so easily dominated?
The answer will be the same as it was for the British in the
Revolution and for the Nazis in World War II: we defeated ourselves. Our over confidence and our desire to have it
all led us to forsake the values that brought about our success and the principles
that made us who we were. While the
Socialist Progressives march us off to the shabby future they have
centrally-planned perhaps instead of the World Turned Upside Down we should
sing a paraphrase of a
line from the sixties, “In tattered tuxedos they face the new heroes and
crawl about in confusion. All the hands
raised; they stand there amazed at the shattering of their illusions.”
We stand at the edge of the abyss. We know not what will be only that it will
not be what it has been. Do not
despair. Do not lose hope. Have faith in Christ. Follow Him and He will guide you to a safe
harbor amidst the storm. I have found my
place. I am preparing every day for the coming crescendo. My best advice is
find Christ, find your place, and hunker down.
Keep the faith. Keep
the peace. We shall overcome.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion
for Southside Virginia Community College. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2012 Robert R.
Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr.
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