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THIS is our last issue of the year. Soon now a thousand years
of history will be packaged as the millennium and put behind
us. What does the 21st Century hold for Western man, the Caucasians,
those of European descent, those who for ten centuries have
been masters of the world, architects and builders of the
most magnificent civilisation the world has ever known?
In particular, what do the coming decades hold for the United
States, home of a lately good and great nation, now it seems
intent on civilisational suicide? And, in the process, threatening
to bring all of Western civilisation crashing down with it.
That, of course, is not the message you read in our corrupt
and incoherent media.
For them, this shipwreck of Western culture is not important
enough to push the trivia of flattery, sensation and scandal
off the front pages. Yet the reality is that the foundations
and structures of our incomparable European culture, with
its towering achievements in the arts, music, literature,
architecture, the genius of its species transforming science,
medicine and technology, are today steadily disintegrating
and de-structing.
If rescue is possible, then everything depends on the American
majority: on European America. I would like to be optimistic
about the future of America. But civilisations, even the most
spectacular, fade and die. Nor does the US (so recently the
most prosperous, the most impregnable power in history, but
now sleepwalking to apocalypse) enjoy any privileged immunity
to the natural cycle.
Two thousand years ago Rome's wealth, reach and military strength
staggered the imagination of the ancient world. The Romans
of the founding Republic were an austere, strictly moral and
honourable people, a great people who prided themselves on
their free institutions and their republican government. A
long series of wars, internal conflicts and moral degeneration,
together with the stupidity, recklessness and treachery of
many of its leaders, undermined and destroyed that early grandeur.
Modern America and Ancient Rome share many disturbing similarities.
A general comparison between the US of today and the old Roman
Empire is both valid and useful.
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Edward Gibbon said that the Romans ordained their own fall.
And so it was.
Their leadership gradually degenerated morally and spiritually.
They became despots. The economy was in constant upheaval.
Since Rome had gone off the gold and silver standard, the
currency was unstable and constantly being devalued. Though
heavily in debt, Roman leaders engaged in prodigal spending,
much of it on unearned bread and circuses, plus gigantic stocks
of armaments. All this was countered by punishing taxation,
which finally killed off the work ethic and destroyed agriculture.
Moral laxity, greed and fear swept the land, as crimes of
every category increased at a rapid pace. The faith and disciplines
of the early Romans were dissipated and disappeared. Free
speech and religion became criminal acts against the state.
Socially, Rome suffered an epidemic of divorce and abortion.
An extraordinarily powerful "women's rights" movement developed,
with females seeking to emulate and outdo men in every sphere.
The women resented marriage and child-bearing, resorting to
abortion on a grand scale. A mounting craze for pleasure accompanied
increasing violence and brutality both in entertainment and
sport.
Military adventures against outside "enemies," straw soldiers,
further zapped the national morale - a colossal failure to
realise that the real enemies lay within the empire itself,
in the spiritual decay of its people. Pride and honour lapsed
into cynicism and debauchery.
Nearly 40 years before the birth of Christ, the Roman orator
Cicero offered this sage advice: "The budget should be balanced;
public debt reduced; the arrogance of officialdom tempered
and controlled, the assistance to foreign lands curtailed,
lest Rome fall." The Romans ignored that advice. And guess
what? The great Roman Empire crumbled and expired.
By 476 AD, the Roman Empire had vanished from Western Europe,
"an event still felt by the nations of the earth." Now we'll
paraphrase Shaw's quip: "Rome fell, Babylon fell. America's
turn will come."
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