This was posted in 2010, and naturally the host site censored it in the intervening years. I have some quibbles with how the author mapped out the Roman timeline to ours, but that's mostly because I have 13 years of hindsight that the author didn't. The extent of the damage Bathhouse Barry and Big Mike did also wouldn't have been fully apparent back then. The parts where he describes the destruction of the family unit by no fault divorce is particularly prescient, because it's even more obvious now than it was in 2010. There's a reason I say that we haven't seen unrestrained female nature on display since the fall of Rome instead of ever. The cultural rot we're experiencing is by no means unprecedented.
~5 century Rome = present day America. America is ruled by an elite of cognitive jackpot winners who use the President as a puppet.
I don't think the jackpot was cognitive, it was social influence. Other than that Traitor Joe makes this dynamic fucking obvious.
The parts where he describes the destruction of the family unit by no fault divorce is particularly prescient, because it's even more obvious now than it was in 2010.
It's definitely prescient to talk about something that had been going on for decades.
The cultural rot we're experiencing is by no means unprecedented.
It actually is unprecedented. The difference is that the industrial revolution has enabled this sort of rot, because there is such a surplus that societies can get away with being rotten more.
This was posted in 2010, and naturally the host site censored it in the intervening years. I have some quibbles with how the author mapped out the Roman timeline to ours, but that's mostly because I have 13 years of hindsight that the author didn't. The extent of the damage Bathhouse Barry and Big Mike did also wouldn't have been fully apparent back then. The parts where he describes the destruction of the family unit by no fault divorce is particularly prescient, because it's even more obvious now than it was in 2010. There's a reason I say that we haven't seen unrestrained female nature on display since the fall of Rome instead of ever. The cultural rot we're experiencing is by no means unprecedented.
I don't think the jackpot was cognitive, it was social influence. Other than that Traitor Joe makes this dynamic fucking obvious.
It's definitely prescient to talk about something that had been going on for decades.
It actually is unprecedented. The difference is that the industrial revolution has enabled this sort of rot, because there is such a surplus that societies can get away with being rotten more.