In the last days of all empires, fools take over. They reflect the collective stupidity of a civilization that was separated from reality. The last days of the prepared empires are dominated by a handful of fools. The dynasties of the Romans, Maiyah, the French, the Liadsburg, the Romanov, the Iranians, and the Soviets were under the burden of the foolishness of their dissolved rulers, who separated from reality, looted their peoples, and retreated to the echo rooms that make the truth and imagination one thing.
What is happening in America is an updated version of the rule of the Roman Emperor Nero, who allocated huge expenses from the state to gain magic powers; And the Chinese Emperor Chen Shi Huang, who funded repeated campaigns to a fairy island to bring in eternal life; The weak Russian Court, which was sitting, was reading the Tarot cards and attending the sessions of revolting while Russia was draining with a war that killed more than two million people, at a time when the revolution was brewing in the streets.
In his book “Hitler and the Germans”, the political philosopher Eric Fawgeline denies the idea that Hitler – talented in political rhetoric and opportunism, but he is less education and rude – has enacted and seduced the German people. Fogelin writes that the Germans supported Hitler and the “hideous marginal figures” that surrounded him; Because it embodied the diseases of a sick community, a society that collapses economically and lost hope.
Fosegel defines stupidity as “a loss of reality.” This loss of reality means that the “stupid” person is unable to “direct his actions in the world in which he lives” properly. The demagogy, which is always foolish, is not a social mutation, but rather expresses the spirit of the times in society, and its collective exit from a rational world governed by the realistic facts. These fools, who are promising to restore the lost glory and power, are nothing, but only destroying.
They speed up collapse. Since they are limited mental capabilities, they lack any moral compass, not exhausted and exhausted by anger towards the existing elites they see have offended and rejected them, they are restructuring the world to a stadium for scalms, quacks, and obsessed with power.
They wage a war against universities, prohibit scientific research, promote ridiculous theories of vaccines as an excuse to expand collective monitoring and data sharing, and strip the legal residents of their rights, and they enable armies of thugs – which is what the American Immigration and Customs Authority (ICE) has become.– To spread fear and ensure obedience.
The reality, whether it is the climate crisis or the misery of the working class, does not break into their delusions. The more the situation worsened, the more foolishness. “Hanna Arndt” blames a society that voluntarily embraces the radical evil for this collective “thinking”.
The desperate are the stagnation of their conditions, who are stuck in a loop of despair without hope and their children, they are absorbed by the feeling that they must use everyone around them in a desperate race to stay.
People are treated as tools, and it is a reflection of the cruelty that the ruling class exercises them. Vogelin notes that the society that is ravaged by chaos and turmoil finally celebrates the degraded ethics: cunning, deceitful, and violent.
In an open democratic society, these features are condemned and criminalized. And whoever shows it is stigmatized as “stupid”, and as he notes, then the man, “the man (or the woman) who behaves in this way will be interrupted socially.” But social, cultural and moral standards in a sick society turn upside down.
The qualities that support an open society – such as caring for the public good, honesty, confidence, and self -sacrifice – are harnessing them. These values become harmful to stay in sick society. When society abandons, as Plato indicates, about the public good, he always unleashes immoral desires – violence, greed, sexual exploitation – and encourages magic thinking, which I dealt with in my book “The Empire of Illusion: End of Culture and Victory of Review”.
The only thing that these prepared systems are good at is the review. These festivals are “bread and circus” – such as Trump’s lavish military parade of 40 million dollars to be held on June 14 – The troubled population keeps entertaining.
The conversion of America into Disneyland, the land of eternal, happy ideas and positive situations, where everything is possible, is a curtain that hides the cruelty of economic recession and social inequality.
The mass culture, which is dominated by the sexual commodity, the trivial and free entertainment, and the violent scenes, the population is programmed to hold themselves responsible for failure.
In the “present era”, Surin Kirkgard warns that the modern state seeks to eliminate conscience, form individuals and turn them into “public opinion” that is easy to manipulate. This “public opinion” is not real. It is, as Kirkegard writes, “Huge abstraction, something comprehensive nothing, mirage.”
In short, we become a herd of “unrealistic individuals who cannot meet in a real position or organization – however they remain together as one unit.” As for those who doubt the “public opinion”, those who condemn the corruption of the ruling class, they refuse as dreamers, anomalies or traitors. But only, according to the Greek definition of the “police” (state/ city), who can be considered real citizens.
Thomas Pine writes that the authoritarian government is a fungus that grows from a corrupt civil society. This is what happened to previous societies, which is what happened to us. It is tempting to blame this slope on one person, as if getting rid of Trump will bring us back to reason and sobriety. But rotting and corruption is destroyed by all our democratic institutions, which are no longer formally operating, not fundamental.
The “approval of the convicts” is a harsh joke. Congress is a club in billionaire pockets and companies. Courts are accessories for companies and wealthy people. The press is an echo room; Some do not like Trump, but no one calls for social and political reforms that can save us from tyranny. It is all about how to decorate tyranny, not to confront it.
In his book “Corruption and the Even Rome”, historian Ramsey McMulin writes that what destroyed the Roman Empire was “the transformation of government power and its wrong guidance.”
Power has become a way to enrich private interests. This wrong guidance makes the government powerless – at least as an institution capable of meeting the needs of citizens and protecting their rights. In this sense, our government is powerless.
It is a tool in the hands of companies, banks, and the manufacture of wars, and the oligarshein. She prey on herself to pour wealth up. Edward Gibbon writes: “Rome’s decline was the natural and inevitable result of its excessive greatness. The luxury has matured the principle of decay; the causes of destruction doubled with the breadth of conquests; and as soon as accidents or time removed artificial stents until the massive construction of its own weight was subjected. The story of ruin is simple and clear: instead of asking about the reason for the destruction of the Roman Empire, it is worthy To be surprised that it lasted long. “
The Roman Emperor Commodos was fascinated by himself. He ordered the statues of his embodiment of Hercules, and he was not concerned with the affairs of government. He saw himself as a star in the battlefield, organizes the battles of wrestlers in which he is always crowned, and showcases his skills in killing lions by bow and arrow. The Empire- which was renamed the “Commodos colonial”- has turned into a way to feed its voracious narcissism and its unlimited ambition towards wealth.
He sold positions and privileges publicly, just as some of the agents of the ages are confused between the state and their own interests, and they promote their commercial projects from within the position, and give privileges to those who improve their campaigns or their presidential libraries.
In the end, Emperor’s consultants arranged Komodus to assassinate him strangling his bathroom by a professional wrestler after he announced his intention to take over the consulate, wearing the wrestler. But his assassination did not stop the slope. Bertinx, who was assassinated after three months. The Peritory Guard sold the position of emperor at an auction. The next Emperor, Daidis Julianus, lasted only 66 days.
In the year 193 AD, after the assassination of Komodus, five different emperors ruled. Like the late Roman Empire, our republic died. Our constitutional rights – such as due legal procedures, and the principle of “Hebias Corbus”, which represented protection from arbitrary detention, privacy, freedom of elections and protests – have been robbed of judicial and legislative decisions.
These rights are in name only. The tremendous gap between the alleged values of our false democracy and reality makes our political discourse, and the words that we use to describe ourselves and our political system, purely.
Walter Benjamin wrote in 1940, amid the rise of European fascism and the approach of the World War: “A painting called” the new angel “depicting an angel that seems to be about to move away from something staring at it. Hard in front of his feet.
The angel wants to stay, wake the dead, and fix what is destroyed. But a storm blows from heaven, and it was so stuck in its wings that he was no longer able to close them. The storm pushes him forcibly to the future, while his back towards him, and the rubble of the debris in front of him escalates towards the sky. This storm is what we call progress.
Continuous erosion of our rights, especially our rights as voters; Converting state institutions into exploitation tools; The misery of the poor and the middle class; The lies that fill our media spaces; The deterioration of general education; Endowment absurd wars; The horrific public debts; The collapse of the infrastructure, all of which reflect the last days of all empires. Trump, in the midst of that, send us down while we fall.
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