No empire can be forever. Eventually the resources required to maintain an empire—including the citizens’ commitment to it—are greater than the resources than can be extracted from it. From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:
Tunnel-vision greed and blindness to what is unseen and therefore “unknowable” is self-reinforcing.
The immense literature on the decline and collapse of civilizations tends to overlook a simple but profound dynamic: the tunnel-vision created by the fusion of an unquestioned belief in the permanence of the status quo and a narrow focus on maintaining and/or expanding the perquisites we’re siphoning off of the empire.
The list of causes / sources of decay, decline and collapse is long indeed, but most are external factors: environmental changes such as drought, plagues and pandemics, invasions by barbarians, and so on. Internal sources of decay are often dismissed or given short shrift: for example, the Western Roman empire did not collapse due to moral decay, it was overwhelmed by the invasions of tribes pushed westward into Roman territory by warriors from the steppes of Asia.
The focus on externalities benefits from an easily traceable if-then causality, but it misses the critical importance of the social-economic-political milieu, the mindset of what’s assumed, what is “known,” what is unrecognized (and therefore “unknowable” in the mindset of that era), and the unseen decay wrought by enduring success.
Yes, enduring success is self-liquidating, as the impressively convenient idea that the empire is so durable that everyone with the means to do so can siphon off as much wealth as they can manage with absolutely no systemic consequences.
I thin we’re gonna need a bigger Weimar Wheelbarrow.
You can visit the ruins of empires that were destined to rule for 1000 years, some made it to 12.
A 100% foreign owned and controlled fourth world Tower of Babel turd is so cute as it grasps for all that faded glory.
The whites who won those glorious victories are long gone or extremely old.
Enjoy diversity, sodomy and UBI.