The role of the rise of Islam in shutting down Mediterranean trade and thereby triggering the dark age is an interesting thread to pull. There's an argument that it had a deleterious effect on literacy. In classical antiquity something like 10% of the population was literate if I recall correctly, and the primary medium was papyrus which was cheap and available in large quantities. With the loss of Mediterranean trade to Islamic piracy Egyptian papyrus was no longer available in Europe. It was replaced by parchment, which, being made from animal skin, was far more expensive. This had a limiting effect on the quantity of books that could be produced, which in turn led to a collapse in literacy.
One can imagine something very similar happening today if e.g. the rare earth elements necessary to produce semiconductors became much harder to obtain. Information technology would abruptly become scarce, and the Internet would likely scale back dramatically, retreating from a household technology to an elite institutional technology, with a consequent widespread disappearance of programming skills - no point learning how to use a technology that isn't available.
Interesting point about immigration and assimilation. I’ve thought my whole life that our modern non-assimilating immigration is categorically bad. But a less homogeneous society makes for a more decentralized society, so perhaps there are some positive unintended consequences.
Unless I misread, or misinterpreted, you missed the intentional actions of current financial elites in deliberately stripping resource regions of their indigenous populations in order to avoid the costs of population compensation and control (especially of oil and gas wells and pipleines), then assisting people smugglers to drive refugees westward, an impact that dilutes demand for national sovereignty, creates national conflict, drowns indigenous cultural values, and precipitates civil war. The Rothschild/Rockefeller alliance has consciously pursued these objectives, lubricating the process through the United Nations by actively promoting the Policy of Multiculturalism and Political Correctness.
My point is, the lessons of history teach us what went wrong for 'civilisations', but these were not planned impacts. Today, we are witnessing carefully planned multi-ethnic destruction, to be followed by equally well-planned reconstruction that benefits only the financial elite.
How can we defeat this? We cannot, unless we better understand how the NWO campaign came into being and what conditions, beliefs, and structures enabled this 'global invasion' and, alterrnatively, what changes we must make to recliam our heritage of freedom (if in fact we ever enjoyed such status).
While observing the current crisis playing out, I wrote a novel that reveals an ancient philosophy that might assist us to read our history with greater clarity. Your writings are much appreciated and are clearly more constructive and illuminating than those of your competitors. Well done Theophilus. I look forward to continuation in this series.
Regarding China it has been hovering up giant sums from the West for decades. The Chinese growth as a consequence has been (in part / largely?) exogenous. This also militate against a coming Chinese century.
The role of the rise of Islam in shutting down Mediterranean trade and thereby triggering the dark age is an interesting thread to pull. There's an argument that it had a deleterious effect on literacy. In classical antiquity something like 10% of the population was literate if I recall correctly, and the primary medium was papyrus which was cheap and available in large quantities. With the loss of Mediterranean trade to Islamic piracy Egyptian papyrus was no longer available in Europe. It was replaced by parchment, which, being made from animal skin, was far more expensive. This had a limiting effect on the quantity of books that could be produced, which in turn led to a collapse in literacy.
One can imagine something very similar happening today if e.g. the rare earth elements necessary to produce semiconductors became much harder to obtain. Information technology would abruptly become scarce, and the Internet would likely scale back dramatically, retreating from a household technology to an elite institutional technology, with a consequent widespread disappearance of programming skills - no point learning how to use a technology that isn't available.
Interesting point about immigration and assimilation. I’ve thought my whole life that our modern non-assimilating immigration is categorically bad. But a less homogeneous society makes for a more decentralized society, so perhaps there are some positive unintended consequences.
Unless I misread, or misinterpreted, you missed the intentional actions of current financial elites in deliberately stripping resource regions of their indigenous populations in order to avoid the costs of population compensation and control (especially of oil and gas wells and pipleines), then assisting people smugglers to drive refugees westward, an impact that dilutes demand for national sovereignty, creates national conflict, drowns indigenous cultural values, and precipitates civil war. The Rothschild/Rockefeller alliance has consciously pursued these objectives, lubricating the process through the United Nations by actively promoting the Policy of Multiculturalism and Political Correctness.
My point is, the lessons of history teach us what went wrong for 'civilisations', but these were not planned impacts. Today, we are witnessing carefully planned multi-ethnic destruction, to be followed by equally well-planned reconstruction that benefits only the financial elite.
How can we defeat this? We cannot, unless we better understand how the NWO campaign came into being and what conditions, beliefs, and structures enabled this 'global invasion' and, alterrnatively, what changes we must make to recliam our heritage of freedom (if in fact we ever enjoyed such status).
While observing the current crisis playing out, I wrote a novel that reveals an ancient philosophy that might assist us to read our history with greater clarity. Your writings are much appreciated and are clearly more constructive and illuminating than those of your competitors. Well done Theophilus. I look forward to continuation in this series.
Regarding China it has been hovering up giant sums from the West for decades. The Chinese growth as a consequence has been (in part / largely?) exogenous. This also militate against a coming Chinese century.