I.Further comments on Decline





I am presently of the opinion that Western civilization as such is dead. If we look around us at the current state of Western civilization, or the ruins thereof, we see nothing worth fighting for. We see very little redeeming about it. This essay is going to be a bit grittier than the prior ones. Excuse coarse language – such are the times.



The oligarchs and plutocrats rule with malice and deceit. They claim we are “free” but strip from us our customary rights. They claim we are prosperous but one finds it harder to get by for the rump middle. Meanwhile, the margins succumb to nihilism, hypermodern ideology and distraction, and to drug-induced stupor and suicide. To borrow a turn of phrase, we are sick unto death and we haven’t the strength of will or mind to speak truly.



Sixty-thousand dead from opiate and opioid overdoses alone this past year, about fifty-thousand the year prior, and averaging forty thousand a year for the previous ten years. When one comb…