I actually disagree, it's slightly different, but related.
It is actually that Authoritarianism, if left to fester long enough, or expanded into every aspect of a society to the point of Totalitarianism, will actually create both incompetence and degeneracy which leads to it's inevitable collapse.
This is because when an authoritarian seeks to maintain power for himself, he can't allow his subordinates to challenge his authority. The only way he can protect himself from revolution is dependency. The best way to control someone is vice. If you promote someone who is too incompetent or unskilled to replace you, they will be absolutely loyal, and contented with their position. If you promote someone who has a vice, you can control that person by controlling their access to that vice.
If you are a department head, and you promote someone who isn't smart enough to do your job as your assistant manager, he'll never challenge you because he needs you. Better yet, if he's already too stupid to do his job, but you're smart enough to do both, then he will be deathly loyal because he's at a position of unearned status and wealth because of you. If you promote someone who is a drunkard to the deputy manager position, and he knows that the only reason he keeps his job is because you keep protecting him from being fired for showing up drunk, then he will remain deathly loyal. The security of your position is absolute.
Now, apply that to an economy of scale.
You hire the drunkard as your direct subordinate, and he's loyal to you for your protection. The drunkard hires a thief as a direct subordinate who is loyal to the drunkard for his protection for corruption. The thief hires an incompetent to protect his authority and hide his theft. The incompetent hires a complete retard. The retard hires a criminal. The criminal hires a pedophile.
All the way down the line, each position of power is secured by worse and worse corruption, degeneracy, and incompetence.
The degeneracy isn't the cause. The degeneracy is a necessary aspect of authoritarianism. The degeneracy is mechanism of control.
Hunter Biden isn't the way he is because he's powerful. In fact, he has no power. He is a literal monetary vehicle for his father. Hunter is a slave. His degeneracy is a weapon wielded against him as a mechanism of controlling him.
Fixing the degeneracy is effectively impossible, because it is the power structure that is demanding it. This is why we are ruled by retards, the mentally ill, pedophiles, and addicts. All of them are easily controllable, but the people who should be in charge and controlling them are gone. All we are left with are the final phase of the inevitable collapse of such authoritarianism: groups of retards, invalids, degenerates, and thieves squabbling among each other as the whole system implodes on itself because the delicate racket of protectionism is without proper guidance.
You can't keep the system and fix the degeneracy. You have to destroy the whole system.
Like Sodom.
In fact, Christianity seems to make the most sense in identifying this issue. The 7 deadly sins are vices that actually make you easy to control by others. It's worded along the lines of being tempted by Satan, but it's also why the Christians keep looking around and saying the world is Satanic. They're right: it is. The world is ruled by a racket of vices that keep only the worst in power.
I actually disagree, it's slightly different, but related.
It is actually that Authoritarianism, if left to fester long enough, or expanded into every aspect of a society to the point of Totalitarianism, will actually create both incompetence and degeneracy which leads to it's inevitable collapse.
This is because when an authoritarian seeks to maintain power for himself, he can't allow his subordinates to challenge his authority. The only way he can protect himself from revolution is dependency. The best way to control someone is vice. If you promote someone who is too incompetent or unskilled to replace you, they will be absolutely loyal, and contented with their position. If you promote someone who has a vice, you can control that person by controlling their access to that vice.
If you are a department head, and you promote someone who isn't smart enough to do your job as your assistant manager, he'll never challenge you because he needs you. Better yet, if he's already too stupid to do his job, but you're smart enough to do both, then he will be deathly loyal because he's at a position of unearned status and wealth because of you. If you promote someone who is a drunkard to the deputy manager position, and he knows that the only reason he keeps his job is because you keep protecting him from being fired for showing up drunk, then he will remain deathly loyal. The security of your position is absolute.
Now, apply that to an economy of scale.
You hire the drunkard as your direct subordinate, and he's loyal to you for your protection. The drunkard hires a thief as a direct subordinate who is loyal to the drunkard for his protection for corruption. The thief hires an incompetent to protect his authority and hide his theft. The incompetent hires a complete retard. The retard hires a criminal. The criminal hires a pedophile.
All the way down the line, each position of power is secured by worse and worse corruption, degeneracy, and incompetence.
The degeneracy isn't the cause. The degeneracy is a necessary aspect of authoritarianism. The degeneracy is mechanism of control.
Hunter Biden isn't the way he is because he's powerful. In fact, he has no power. He is a literal monetary vehicle for his father. Hunter is a slave. His degeneracy is a weapon wielded against him as a mechanism of controlling him.
Fixing the degeneracy is effectively impossible, because it is the power structure that is demanding it. This is why we are ruled by retards, the mentally ill, pedophiles, and addicts. All of them are easily controllable, but the people who should be in charge and controlling them are gone. All we are left with are the final phase of the inevitable collapse of such authoritarianism: groups of retards, invalids, degenerates, and thieves squabbling among each other as the whole system implodes on itself because the delicate racket of protectionism is without proper guidance.
You can't keep the system and fix the degeneracy. You have to destroy the whole system.
Like Sodom.
In fact, Christianity seems to make the most sense in identifying this issue. The 7 deadly sins are vices that actually make you easy to control by others. It's worded along the lines of being tempted by Satan, but it's also why the Christians keep looking around and saying the world is Satanic. They're right: it is. The world is ruled by a racket of vices that keep only the worst in power.