Most people have at one time or another fallen.
The one that first popped into my mind was during my hardcore insomnia years. It was 12:30-1am. I had not slept. I was getting worried about getting up for work. I was walking down the stairs in my socks to get a glass of wine to try to get me relaxed/induce sleep. My feet landed on the edge of a stair. All of a sudden, I was airborne. And I had this explosive moment of thought, of memory and fear that I had zero control over what was about to happen (and that it could be quite bad). I landed on the edge of the stair, leading with my butt, and I proceeded to bounce down the stairs hitting that area over and over again. All in all, I was extremely lucky—nothing more than a sore butt and into the lower back.
I remember that fear. And I have felt it for a while now over the path of our county, western civilization and the world overall.
For decades in fact.
About 3 weeks before the election, I caught what I call an intuitive wave. It’s a kind of knowing that comes out of nowhere related to something significant. It’s not a common thing. I had not been paying attention to the election (the news is no longer news so I avoid it, and I limit social media to YouTube and most of that is long form). I expected a somewhat neutral result that favored Democrats. During the intuitive wave, I had an overwhelming sense that the election would be the wrong outcome. That the people would be making choices that would create damage that could not be undone (or would be very difficult to undo). That the country had already moved into dangerous territory, and the result would push everyone further into the ocean, further from solid ground.
I talked about buying a gun. I’ve never owned one. In part, because I don’t want to accidently kill someone and in part because I’ve had suicidal thoughts throughout my life and though I’ve made friends with those thoughts (such that I can), it only takes mere seconds of unconscious thought to grab a gun and pull the trigger if it’s available.
For now, I’m watching and waiting. The consequences I felt did not have a timetable. It could be ten or twenty years from now. Or 2. But the feeling of a wrong choice having been made was strong and when it turned out to be a Blue Wave, the intuitive wave within me vibrated in recognition.
Peoples in civilization after civilization have made choices to weaken who they are. Other humans who smell weakness then swoop in and destroy, take, and rebuild in their image. In the modern framework, there are added complexities. Political organizations actively work against the interest of their own nation states—native cultures have been actively dismantled through largescale immigration, regulation, control over what information is disseminated, changing the meaning of language, attacks on families, and the ceding of sovereignty to elite classes (aka, the EU) which globalism has leveraged to weaken alternative centers of power that might work against them. OpenAI has added another Orwellian-esque layer as it seeks to effectively turn the world’s populations into rent-a-slaves by in essence turning access to AI, to the internet, to the concept of data intelligence/ into a single user-controlled commodity (sort of like the Old AT&T but on steroids with vastly more power) owned and controlled by OpenAI (or it’s like) where access is regulated by whatever orthodoxy a very tiny number of people see fit to enforce (in the case of OpenAI, it would be a Left spectrum ideology which aligns with the dominant leftism of the globalists).
It is an old pattern.
Men have been weakened. They are softer. More compliant. They buy into messages that being a man is by definition toxic. They are weak. More controllable. Even their T-levels have plummeted into what amounts to a kind of chemical castration. Which makes the concentration of globalist power all the easier.
I love the Fall of Civilizations YouTube channel. It’s amazing. But there is for a me a sadness to it because, well, it ends with a fall.
The last one is called Majapahit-Empire of the Islands. I was intrigued as I know a fair amount of history but I knew little about the Javanese other than it used to be a Buddhist-Hindu culture overtaken by Muslims with the island of Bali a relic of what was.
Majapahit declined in large part because of division that led to a civil war just as China reasserted its imperial power under the Ming Dynasty (after the period of Mongolian dominance) and as Muslims were spreading into Malaysia and the Indonesian archipelago. It was not a time that allowed for the Buddhist-Hindu Javanese to have a period of weakness.
Near the end, a Javanese poet wrote a lament in the Kakawin Nītiśāstra, a didactic poem written in the 15th century during the late Majapahit Empire period:
The signs of the approaching end of this world
Will be all kinds of depravity among mankind
That is to say
The wise will turn foolish
The holy men will become worldly
Children will abandon their parents
Princes will lose their empires
The Little will become great
and commit depredations
In short, everything will be in confusion
Not long after the poem was written, Muslims came for what was left of Majapahit, and they surrounded the city and slaughtered all of those who were unable to flee. Priests were drowned. The city was burned or was left abandoned. The Buddhist-Hindu culture of the Javanese was effectively erased. It took less than a day.
Many of those who were able to flee went to Bali. What was left of the city left behind was reclaimed by the jungle and volcanic eruptions.
When I heard the poem, I was struck by how it captured a vision of what is happening today throughout the western world.
We are following in the pattern of civilization collapse.
Many of us feel it. Others simply recognize the pattern.
Some dismiss it as dramatic. But those driving us into pattern of civilization collapse are incredibly delusional; they are lost to who they are, buy into a distorted version of reality, and as part of the delusion they alleviate themselves of any and all accountability.
There is anger and grief that too many of the leaders and too many of the people do not understand. I even wonder if the man behind the channel was moved to make his videos as a mirror to the world of where we are going/heading.
My hope and my prayer is the US somehow avoids a fate that seems to be set into motion.
But I see in the Left a desire for self-destruction that is so great that the cost of it doesn’t matter to them. Comedians like Chappelle attempt to make jokes around the public assassination of Charlie Kirk, a man, a father, and a husband while others have made it into a holiday to celebrate and make fun of (one’s soul has to be very sick to go there). Women flocked to defend Lindsay Clancy after she murdered her 3 children. They have pushed the sterilization of thousands of children after brainwashing their kids that they were born into the wrong body (think about that for a moment) and often using the child as a virtue-signaling ornament (I do believe there are true trans, but that it’s exceedingly rare)(the use of children as mere props to make the parent look “better/more evolved” to their virtue-signaling peers, is itself highly toxic). Some radical feminists have gone so far as to call for the abortion of boy babies (and this is legal for some reason) while others call for divorcing their Republican husbands, which honestly, if you are making or listening to that kind of content, the husbands will probably be happier. Muslims in US mosques openly chant Death to America (which makes what happened to the Buddhist-Hindu Javans all the more chilling not to mention the Jews, the Armenian Genocide, the pogroms in Azerbaijan, the Christians of Anatolia…and so on).
The list is SO long.
It’s counter-intuitive to allow people into your country that hate it and seeks its destruction to remake into their own image. But for people who hate who they are, who carry shame for who they are, who believe the indoctrination that tells them so, it makes a kind of horrid sense.
I am reminded of the Persians who were allowed to immigrate into the Median Kingdom because they were close relatives to the Medes. That worked out okay for those allowed in. The second generation of Persians rebelled and wiped out the Medes from history—permanently (even though the Persians and the Medes were closely related). It’s a pattern throughout human history. It’s being repeated in Europe right now—where Jewish business are targeted in a way similar to the Nazis, historic buildings burned and long-lasting riots, but that is just at the beginning for the slaughters to come. Whatever gratitude exists for first generation immigrants tends to become resentment by the second.
Multiculturalism was always a lie.
Much like the two sides of the Javanese civil war, who must have understood that they put their empire at risk by fighting each other, the Left in particular has treated those on the Right as enemies worthy of death. In Europe, being against open borders earns a “far right” label even though many of the anti-immigration populist parties are not conservative in a traditional sense (but it’s complicated); As happened in Java and so many other civilizations, power, personal gain, egos and self-perception, trumped what was best for their civilization.
The winner of the war didn’t matter.
Both sides lost.
Everything.
And so here we are. I feel that we are in the pattern. The intuitive wave was a feeling that we have moved further into it perhaps to a point of no return. We shall see. If we are to break out of it, it will take the kind of determination that won world wars.
Does that determination still linger in the hearts of men and women?
Perhaps the days to come will be where it’s decided.
But if the tide sweeps us too far into the ocean, no amount of desire will change our fate.
Breath to Fire
