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Rikard's avatar

We are now in the years after 454AD: the Empire is falling and failing, and the old identity as a Roman citizen is evaporating at the same time as new ones are forming due to mass-migration of tribes, both the ones of the old Empire and new arrivals. In competition, conflict and co-operation all over the place: often all three at the same time.

The Eastern half, while under pressure from Oriental marauder-tribes, is still centralised around its core identities and will last a while longer, but will eventually too fal - either to said marauders, or to degeneration and miscegenation, or by mimicking the western half - probably all of it mixed together.

From this, something new will arise. What, we might not live long enough to see since the development from new and radical to old and well-known usually takes at least half a century or more.

You might as well replace 454AD with 1995AD, and the above is equally true: the template is to show the scale and scope of the change we're living through and as with all such changes there's no going back, only forward. But forward to where and what, and as who and what - that's what the fight's about. (Also, how to move forward without making forward motion into its own cause and reason.)

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I feel democracy is ending, the scale tilting between corporate hegemony using parliaments as a temple and politicians as a clergy in the cult of capitalism, to sanction whatever decrees the super-rich decide are tio be levied on their human resources.

And some form of more openly totalitarian techno-crazy, where voting and holding office or having a career is based on how many units of electronic capital (i.e. social credits) you posses.

With the rise of pre-Black Death style Islam all over the West as the outlier. It is not beyond the realm of probability that around the year 2100AD, we'll have de facto Islamic theocratic city-states all over EU-rope, and many of them in a perpetual state of low-key war/feuding.

The goal of the USEmpire, China, and Africa and MENA is the same as always: keep Europe down, keep the Europeans from becoming again the greatest power on the planet. If we'd only accept and understand that, we could do anything and everything.

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I'll end by noting the the professor must be close to retirement, being so outspoken, or is he betting on the wave sweeping DEI and woke away in the USA will have enough power to trigger a cleansing of the Augean Stable-state of European academia - humanities and social sciences especially?

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With regard to the issue of diagnosis being identity, cattle expert Temple Grandin, who has autism (not Asperger's, but full-blown autism) spoke of a worrying trend. When she talks to children at, say, conferences and asks, "What are your hobbies?", the child will answer, "I have autism!" So she asks, "but what do you like to do?" The child will answer, "I have autism!" That's the child's whole life.

It's no wonder those with Asperger's and autism get all touchy when people talk about a cure or the possibility that vaccines caused the problem. It's so tied up in their identity--or maybe is their identity--any suggestion that they could get better is an assault on who they are.

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