{"id":27151,"date":"2017-10-23T08:35:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27151"},"modified":"2017-10-24T06:42:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T11:42:06","slug":"depravity-frivolity-and-dissent-are-we-watching-the-end-of-an-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27151","title":{"rendered":"Depravity, Frivolity, and Dissent: Are We Watching the End of an Empire?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Depravity, Frivolity, and Dissent: Are We Watching the End of an Empire?<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

(ADULT CONTENT WARNING)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 40-year-old essay predicted the end of an empire and current events sure make it look like we\u2019re watching it happen in real time.<\/p>\n

I spend a fair bit of time scanning the news every day for my site, Preppers Daily News<\/a>. And some days, I just have to shake my head as I realize that people are so desperate for\u2026something\u2026that they just keep going to further and further extremes to try and find that elusive thing their lives are missing.<\/p>\n

The more I read, the more likeness I see to Sir John Glubb\u2019s essay, The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival<\/a>. (It\u2019s only 24 pages and you should definitely read it \u2013 it\u2019s brilliant.) Sir Glubb wrote this outstanding work when he was 79 years old, after a lifetime of being a soldier, traveling the world, and analyzing history. It\u2019s well worth a read as he goes into detail about the fall of empires past.<\/p>\n

The final stage of the end of an empire is the Age of Decadence. Some signs of this age are political dissensions (Antifa<\/a>, anyone?), an influx of foreigners (Europe<\/a>, anyone?), the welfare state (America<\/a>, anyone?), despair (350 million people diagnosed<\/a>), depravity (see below), and the rise of frivolity as people try to fill lives that have less and less meaning.<\/p>\n

Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

This video is a brief synopsis of the signs of an empire that is near its end.<\/p>\n