Another flashing neon indicator of civilizational collapse.
Add in a thoroughly debauched currency, a hopelessly corrupt bureaucracy, an ineffective and completely compromised press, ruined law enforcement, two-tier justice, an unserious and unprepared military, and a degraded government that no longer even bothers with the veneer of legi…
Another flashing neon indicator of civilizational collapse.
Add in a thoroughly debauched currency, a hopelessly corrupt bureaucracy, an ineffective and completely compromised press, ruined law enforcement, two-tier justice, an unserious and unprepared military, and a degraded government that no longer even bothers with the veneer of legitimacy or fiscal responsibility and you get late-Soviet rule by criminals at best, complete chaos at worst.
Yep. Schools often do a lousy job of imparting knowledge to kids, let alone skills, but probably the worst casualty on the curriculum is history teaching. History is now lumped in with geography as humanities or social science, and the curriculum is heavily politicised. In the schools I have contacts with - and these are private ones - the only history the kids get is how evil white people were (and are). A people that doesn't know its own history or the history of how civilisations wax and wane is doomed. The only one you missed out, Lon, was sexual perversion. Acceptance and celebration of that is a massive indicator of the approaching end.
Another flashing neon indicator of civilizational collapse.
Add in a thoroughly debauched currency, a hopelessly corrupt bureaucracy, an ineffective and completely compromised press, ruined law enforcement, two-tier justice, an unserious and unprepared military, and a degraded government that no longer even bothers with the veneer of legitimacy or fiscal responsibility and you get late-Soviet rule by criminals at best, complete chaos at worst.
The implosion is not long off.
Yep. Schools often do a lousy job of imparting knowledge to kids, let alone skills, but probably the worst casualty on the curriculum is history teaching. History is now lumped in with geography as humanities or social science, and the curriculum is heavily politicised. In the schools I have contacts with - and these are private ones - the only history the kids get is how evil white people were (and are). A people that doesn't know its own history or the history of how civilisations wax and wane is doomed. The only one you missed out, Lon, was sexual perversion. Acceptance and celebration of that is a massive indicator of the approaching end.
This. There is no better cautionary tale than history.
Perhaps that's why the educational system avoids it these days?...