While your grasp of history and power is both extensive and cynical, I note your acceptance that the panoptic totalitarian empire seeking to rule the world is going to destroy itself, perhaps driven by a suicidal hatred of free and happy communities.
Because of this agreement with my own understanding of the forces of history concatenating presently, I wonder if this isn't your most positive comment to my posts. Or did I miss the /sarc tag?
May your happiness surpass your expectations, and your joy exceed your understanding.
The moment we are born is the moment we begin dying. So too with all of man's creation. A failed Austrian painter envisioned an empire that only lasted for 0.1% of the time he imagined it would live. The Marxist international revolution has been dying for the past 50 years, and will be forgotten once the West collapses. The CCP will eventually exhaust all its resources and implode. There are limits even for absolute totalitarian autarchy.
Worldwide totalitarian conspiracy makes for intriguing novels, but the reality is composed of mortal, fallible, petty men. Grand vision of the heavens shatter when confronted with petty ambitions and degenerate vices of men. Fragmentation of modern centralized authority need not require violent revolution. Those with the patience to wait the eventual implosion, while mastering self-discipline and organizing regional communities will inherit the broken world. The meek shall inherit the earth because the strong will kill each other and ultimately devour themselves.
Sage words, indeed!
I utterly agree. I also will be happy to let the meek inherit the Earth. Imma go places.