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The maxim that there is nothing new under the sun is a very true maxim; that is to say, it covers about half the truth, which is a great deal of truth for a maxim to cover. - Arthur Livingston, (1938) 'Introduction', in "The Ruling Class (Elementi di Scienza Politica)" (1896) by Gaetano Mosca, pg. 8

(Disclaimer: There are no trusted sources on the internet.) It seems Q-Anon / Alex Jones might've been _fundamentally_ correct about the Western elite. Paedophiles, cannibals, vampires. "What is to be done?" This question is now a more fundamental, there-are-monsters-in-the-dark one. Anyone living under the money-printer is living under _that_ moral order. It seems appropriate to frame this apocalyptically, specifically in a Genesis 6:22 way. The choice is now moral. The world is wicked and we must build an arc. I do mean this practically. I don't see a way to raise a family unless you build an arc with others that do as God commands. I also can't stand the idea of not fighting against evil. I'd like a death of the self. Huge pendulum swing. We've gone full self-realization and it's been catastrophic. Time to kill the ego and hear the word of God again. Otherwise, I don't see how we don't get herded, bled, and eaten by vampires.

" The good news isn’t good unless the "bad news" is bad. […] The world, the flesh, and the devil are working very hard to conceal or blunt the bad news. Sick? There’s a pill for that. Aging body? There’s a nip-and-tuck. Lonely or worried or restless or afraid or heartbroken? There’s shopping and sex and bourbon and YouTube. Anything, anything rather than facing the bad news that I will, that I must, sicken and die and decompose and be forgotten from the face of the earth because of my inheritance of Adam’s curse, and my complicity in that same curse by my sins. […] There is something deeply, cosmically wrong with the universe, and without the intervention of a deity, my final end is utter, total erasure and senility and death and rotting and oblivion. "Remember your last days." writes Sirach. "Remember death and decay." " - Kelly Scott Franklin, 'The Bad News', in The Lamp Magazine, Issue 31. https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-31/the-bad-news

" Nos Hercules et Achilles non sumus, sed imbelles et minime ad bella nati. " (We are not Hercules or Achilles, but un-warlike and by no means born for war.) - Antonio de Ferraris (Antonius Galateus, fl. late 15th–early 16th) saw his city of Otranto fall in 1480 to the Turks. In the 1520s, Algeria falls to the famed pirate Redbeard and under the rule of the Turkish sultan. Rhodes follows suit, after centuries of being governed and defended by the Knights of St. John. Feeling no particular sympathy for the Spanish, De Ferraris nonetheless sees that Italy has very few options left. It is rich and too close to the Turks. It either falls to the Turks - which means slavery and degradation, or it allows itself to be defended by those willing to do so - the Spanish. The peninsula is divided politically and not ready for war.

" To act violently to draw out an opponent’s efforts while manoeuvring under cover to destabilize their centre of gravity and resolve the action with minimal confrontation. Making it so an opponent feels intellectually and morally defeated before they are materially defeated. This means conceiving action based on a few basic parameters: what our adversary expects us to do, what we want to achieve, how we make them believe they are in the right, and how we resolve the dilemma of the use of force. It is a constant exercise in Go, the popular and ancient Chinese game cited by Confucius more than 2,500 years ago. " Francisco Gan Pampols on Sun Tzu's recurring idea of "occultation" or the simultaneous undergoing of several actions to disguise one's true purpose in war In 'The Art of War', Sun Tzu (with commentary by the Lieutenant General Francisco Gan Pampols) (2025). Translation is ChatGPT’s & mine.

" In the 1950s, there was a great cult of Progress in the West. We've beaten the Nazis. We've got all these scientific advances. We're going forward out into space. Mankind is being drawn together through communications. Modernity is bringing all sorts of gifts. And the old paradigms don't work. We're having extreme unction in the face of laser surgery. We're having blessings of cars while we're sending people to the moon. This is an easy trap to fall into: to think that because things have changed so much in the immediate, that somehow the realities have changed. " - Charles A. Coulombe is an American author and historian. "Symposia | Ep. 4: Fish With Their Heads On" (00:37:39), The European Conservative YouTube: https://youtu.be/Tnx_830VlMI?

" … The territories of an empire, when the empire collapses, go through a long stage of social and political turmoil, dragged along by all manner of fragmenting tendencies that generate enormous conflict. […] Feudalism is the result of the fall of the Roman Empire - that is, of the failure of _the State_. Feudalism arises automatically whenever such a breakdown of the State occurs, for feudalism is nothing other than the search for personal alliances above the law. The world becomes too insecure to trust strangers. " Translation is my own. - Elvira Roca Barea, 'Imperiofobia y Leyenda Negra. Roma, Rusia, Estados Unidos y El Imperio Español'. Chapter 7. (2016)

"...for each tree is known by its own fruit." Luke 6:44 Dominic Sandbrook on Triggernometry (https://youtu.be/kf-bSAnW_E0?) identifies utopian-idealists as the most dangerous leaders. E.g., Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot. Christianity at its most eschatological is a bulwark against utopian-idealism. Original Sin tells us _why we can’t_ build heaven on earth. The Final Judgement tells us _why we don’t have to_ and _why we mustn’t try_. And tradition and authority curb utopian reinterpretation by individuals. Furthermore, a Christian's primary allegiance is to the City of God. The aim to perfect the Earthly City is secondary, and impossible. A Christian isn’t encouraged to perfect society, but to transform it in order to restore human dignity and reflect divine mercy. It’s a difficult call - full of paradoxes. The bad fruits of utopian-idealism are the logical outcome of pursuing a perfect secular society. The bad fruits of Christendom are violations of the principles laid out above.

" A man is no more than another if he does no more than another. " - Miguel de Cervantes 'Don Quijote de la Mancha'

1 "… impossible to maintain individual freedom to not reproduce _and_ modern economies" Agreed. The West can no longer outsource reproduction or recessions via reserve currency privilege. 2 On the small states that will emerge to replace the old ones: Agreed. I’d qualify that slightly: None of the first-generation network states will call themselves "states". They'll be 'worker collectives', 'guilds', 'business networks', 'voluntary organisations', or some form of NGO. They'll be _de facto_ states with some or all the features you've described, but they'll find ways to justify their behaviour within the current _de jure_ regime. 'Discourses on Livy', Book I, Chapter 25: "… preserve at least a semblance of existing methods, so as not to appear to the people to have made any change in the old order of things." "… the mass of mankind accept what seems as what is." 'The Prince', Chapter 18: "Everyone sees what you seem to be, few touch upon what you are."