The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization

Dr. Hansen nails it - again.

The exact truth of our current situation. It's as if Civilization were a luxury apartment, filled with new furniture and state-of-the-art gadgets, that a bunch of apes have somehow inherited, and all they are doing is craping on the floor, eating everything in sight, smashing the tables, hanging from the curtains, chewing on the electric cords, and generally trashing all that's useful and beautiful.

And it all didn’t have to happen. Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.

Those who have learned the basic skills of living, meaning doing the dirty jobs that keep your belly full, your home heated and such as that, and how to repair those required systems will do OK. It is the people I call the "systems people", those who literally cannot repair anything, own no tools, and have no ability to use tools if they found an unlimited supply, those who would starve looking at a standing cow or pig, trying to imagine how to turn it into meat and store it, those that a handful of beans or dry corn are only understood to be eaten, not planted in spring, will not do so well. The demand for "expertise" in Feminine Studies, or Black Studies, or Modern Art, or Political Science or Journalism will be low. The demand for a auto mechanic, a plumber, a carpenter, a welder, a machinist, an excellent shot and a practical engineer will be high. If you have time to learn more of those "Mike Rowe Dirty Jobs" type of skills, you should probably learn at least a bit about them all, and encourage young people to learn these things. If these dangerous fools do manage to actually break down civilization, and I am not yet convinced that they will succeed even though they are trying mightily, those skills will be what defines the difference between life and death. I hope that we can avoid heading into Dark Ages 2.0 , but the WEF is doing all in their power to make it happen.

"Western civilization" rests on the erroneous conclusion that all humans yearn to be free, and that they value what we enlightened folk value. It's not true and never has been true, yet the fable is repeated by left, right and center as the basis for their social and political agendas. American culture was once the glue that held together our national consensus. That culture is continually under attack these days, by left and right. Where once we were a culture that agreed government intrusion was unwanted, today it is invited - so long as it is on "our side". Rights? Let's not talk about 2A or abortion, but free speech, assembly, and petition. Both ends meet in the middle, agreeing in principle that these can be restricted IF the rights of the other. Otherwise, it's "hate", "sedition", or communism. Our marketplace of ideas has become a bazaar resembling a Soviet department store. Say the wrong thing, advocate the wrong cause and you'll be canceled, or worse by one side or the other. Western civilization, by and large, was born on prosperous third base and thinks it hit a triple. There's a big world out there. And it doesn't think like you, nor understand your "freedom."

FTA: [T}he once prosperous Greek city-state, Roman Empire, Renaissance republics, and European democracies of the 1930s imploded—as civilization went headlong in reverse. We in the modern Western world are now facing just such a crisis.

A must read! I don’t believe I’ve ever been as worried in my lifetime as I am now.

The first goal of any civilization is to assure the reproduction of enough children to keep the population from shrinking. At today's level of medical technology that means 2.2 children/per woman ON AVERAGE. But ever since the 50's the birth rate has fallen well below that level. That is when effective birth control came along(including abortion). And with it a cultural attitude that having children was uncool. We are evaporating.

You think democrats are acting civilized now?

#9 NO they are not. When the law is not enforced , it weakens the country , which is what they want. A country ripe for enslavement.

,#5, you couldn't be more wrong. That is the reason why everybody wants to come to America. In their own country they may not see our experience of freedom, but they see it expressed in America and the things it does and the lives it leads, and they want it because it's better. At the moment we are being manipulated by commies and one world global oligarchs. But they will pass and the freedom that is natural to America will come back and people will see it as a very good choice. The EU fears Giorgia Meloni for exactly that reason.

#11 - That's the fable we tell ourselves. Let's take those streaming across the southern border, from Mexico, Central America, Middle East, China, Afghanistan and elsewhere. What is their motive? PROSPERITY, not "freedom". SAFETY, not "freedom". REPATRIATION, not freedom. SOCIAL JUSTICE, not freedom. For Mexicans the USA owes them reparations for taking Texas from Mexico, stealing California, Arizona and New Mexico, too, fighting a contrived war of conquest - no better than the oppresive Spaniards and French imperialists, or hacendados land barons with their massive haciendas. They are all drawn by that shining city on the hill, where all things are free to them. Where the law doesn't apply whether they are peones or coyotes, they are "refugees". Even gangbangers are welcome in our borderless country. (Ask your local law enforcement about your own community.) You think they're here mainly for your idea of "All-American freedom"? Some are...others certainly not. How free you feeling yourself these days? It's your country and culture, right? Pick one of these folks up on a highway for a good samaritan lift, then see who goes to jail if the Border Patrol stops you, or the local sheriff.

FTA ... and discounting Armageddon in the nuclear age—as if on autopilot we have already reached utopia. VDH welcome to Texas I've got 40 acres and a mule waiting for you. We actually make some pretty good wine here.

#12, have you ever talked to illegal aliens who come here and live? They bloody love it - they are FREE to find a job, a place to live, to educate their children (sure, on our dime, for now), and to pursue the American dream (yes, illegally, but for the same reasons we do), and to send some money back home. They do not all do crimes and deal drugs; rather they work their a#$es off. And I am definitely against illegal immigration, but even so... This country and its founding principles are God's gift and God is not blinking.