America and the Romans

A recent reading of Adrian Goldworthy's Fall of the West has brought to mind the numerous and distinct similarities between the ancient Roman empire and the United States empire. Though many would argue the US is not the Roman empire, which I am in full agreement with, my major point of interest are not in the distinguishing features, but in the eerily similiar commonalities between the two powers, especially with their relative declines. And some of the contributing or symptomatic factors of the Roman decline seem to look all too familiar.

Thus far, I can conclude that Rome's inherent political instability was the deciding factor of its demise; The nature of the Roman entity was one that was inherently and fatalistically divisive; Rome suffered, as empires so inclined, from sheer vastness, its sheer geographic magnitude served as more of a source of internal division and conflict than a strength, and paved the road for empirical rupture accodomatingly. At the conclusion of the Western empire, the emperor himself was reduced merely to that of a figurehead, a persona secured only by the allegiance of the general of the day and his stalwart regiment of troops. The same dynamic is visible in modern America, whose landscape is but an absurd caricature of thinly veiled antagonism and division. For the average man or woman, there is but two ideological spectrums, a hefty liberal bias at one end, and a conservative one at the other. Not only is America racially segregated, but severely by political affiliation. This ideological isolation, exacerbated by multiculturalism and the media that fuels it, helps to aggravate the symptoms of this very social sickness.

New York, much like the city center of imperial Rome, the preening and symbolic capital of America to the rest of the world, the teeming trade center of the US, the home of the vampires of finance, a neo-Marxist elites, profiting from usury and manipulating the securities of working Americans, exploiting nothing but human livestock to them, is the worm-infested core of the United Soviet State of America. Compounding misery, this empirical hub was symbolically sacked by the lowest and scummiest barbarians. Nine-eleven to me exemplified two parts of the worst part of the elite's American culture coming home to roost: Multiculturalist immigration policies with no integration policy, and backdoor American interference in other countries. An impressive deficiency maintains in the wake of the symbolic destruction of New York, the razing of the World Trade center, a monument to the might and audacity of North American economic muscle, an impregnable structure of awe-inspiring size looking down on the world, instead, in its obliterated state, to be overshadowed by the now unmentioned Park 51. Nine Eleven was an attack geared towards symbolic pillaging, the destruction wreaked worth more than the sum of its damage on infrastructure.

But the consequences of such an event lies remote in the mind of the average Joe. We don't see American youths taking to the street in fiery conflict over ridiculous student loans, the pension pyramid scheme, or the present and projected marginalisation of Whites. Like the rest of us and like the ancient Roman proletariat (thought they were known to riot when their food reserves were down), the bulk of American Whites have their hands tied.

The place I'd draw the boldest distinction between the USA and the Roman empire is in the usage of information, and in the way that that information is transferred to the people from the state.  The media makes the difference in its control of the masses. The rapidity and sophistry with which the state and major corporate interests puts the public within their psychological reach is astounding. This medium allows for the powers to be to covertly transform the minds and hearts of their constituency at their whim and will. For instance, take the effect of television on the self-image and perspective of Indian women as outlined in the book Superfreakonomics, which, upon viewing their Western counterparts in US sitcoms, had the effect of depressing birth rates and decreasing spousal violence. Indeed, the Idiot box is a powerful tool, putting the masses' minds at the disposal of those who control it.

The blame of American psychological decadence and apathy can be laid partially at the feet of the education system. This governmental system, with a barely reputable accord, is used primarily as an indoctrination factory, churning out soft-core brainwashees, destined to elated performance of their ideological duty and have just the minimal amount of education to pass through life comfortably, without a shred of knowledge about their true purpose.


Although there are many similarities and differences between the ancient Roman empire and the present day USA, one thing that never changes is the essence of power itself. The societal masters' ability in the seizure and maintenance of the collective attentions of the masses may change, and the ability of different groups to seize it may alternate, but the will to power itself maintains, an unsubvertable human trait, eternally. This is a fundamental lesson to the modern man.

The Foaming Tiber of American Mediocrity

We can observe in the non-American Western world, that there is a subtle kind of cultural client state status to the hyper power. Materialist consumerism conquered and occupies nations worldwide, initiated in a sociological blitzkrieg. Indeed, we are taken by storm... a storm of shit. Endless, unrelenting, smugly self-satisfied shit.

Even as early as the 1920s in America, the seeds of consumerism were being sowed. Jewish marketer Edward Bernays, using the psychological know-how of his uncle Sigmund Freud to combine psychology and marketing to sell cigarettes to women, aligning liberty with smoking, and subconsciously aligning it with a challenge to male power. The power to propagandise was nothing new, but the desire and ability to do so via motivation to profit, this was largely a new phenomenon.

Now, the drive towards a more consumer-centric society might have been the inevitable evolution of surging production, (especially necessitated and began by the Industrial Revolution) a need to offload all these goods  to new markets, right? But the fix has become an addiction. Once the allure of cheap luxury items hit the taste buds of Mr and Mrs America, they were hooked, their palate changed permanently. It used to be more production and less consumption, now its no production and all consumption- to the benefit of certain entities.

All of this fits into a narrative- One of the latest incarnations of an endless will to provide the teeming, bursting masses with sufficient bread and circuses. We are units of labour or production in a neo-Marxist's air castle. A means to an end.

But gadget-fetishism and brand loyalty are not the only tools of subversion at hand, they are more of a vehicle for our compartmentalisation of both our lives and us as entities, a vehicle to distract and hedonize our attentions, and to cheapen and misdirect our characters.

A degenerating culture is one where complaining is a way to get things done. The victim narrative is a powerful cultural force, simply for the fact it encourages the masses to do nothing, and wallow in their socially subsidised, decadent mentality. Though, victimhood comes with a price. In adopting the right to void any responsibility for your actions, you must also resign yourself to a life of whimpering and whinging blanketed in a shallow demonstration of meek niceness (Unless you're a protected minority).

On television, the same tune is played. It is all but a indoctrinarian projector for the aforementioned victimhood narrative, watered down egalitarian ideals, the mangina archetype, models of artificial racial cohesion and miscegenation sponsorship, all  ready to be soaked in by the audience's vicarious eyes. Hollywood churns out a feast of decultured profit-maximisers, with no adequately digestible or unique message, but a series of replications of what has come, each new copy slightly louder and more obvious than the latter.

And what of the personification of all these decadent values and machinations? Generation Zero, castrated and largely disarmed of any connection to their heritage, culture, or even sound discernment, are psychologically cut loose, naive in temperament, to float adrift into a barren, vacant sea of subversive elements and media controlled by a hostile foreign elite, with no solid grasp on reality, no worthwhile role models and perpetual dreams of escape. The worse trait is one that is, to some degree, internalized by most White Westerners but especially in the young Whites, in that everyone, from all cultures, ethnic groups and religions, share the same ideas and ethics and sense of fair play as you, in your naive little corner, do:

How close-minded and racist our elders were! Why can't we all be equal, without reference to something as meaningless as skin colour! Ethnic solidarity my arse, only racist white men believe in that shit! 

Only a violent kick from Reality can obliterate that notion. Or can it?

Invoking the Procrustean approach, generation Y solidarity is dependent on your relative mediocrity to the group.  Because even if you have to lob a few legs and arms off, it's worth the price for equality. Anything that keeps you amidst the ranks of the bumbling herd. Intellectual pursuits are frowned upon or looked on with indifference, but fortunately, boundless hedonism is in.

But it's no wonder that our Generation Y and younger are in such a shabby state in the US, especially. The public education systems present ranges from a mediocrity factory to a leftist teacher's personal experiment (aslong as it is the Party Line, that is).

What of the old American virtues; ideals of liberty, justice and freedom? By subversion, the presence they have in the mainstream has largely morphed into nanny statism, prosecution-by-ideology and political correctness, with only a minority of committed loyalists upholding their true, unraped forms.

Present day America's declining empire may be the epicenter of materialistic individual culture, that has become a synonym for its power, but in a sense, we are all Americans now. For Europeans, being engulfed by the Romans was only a matter of geographical distance or your respective force, but in this age of mass-communications, being culturally conquered by the Judeo-Hollywood complex has proven to only be a matter of time, a matter of degree.

In essence, the American Dream has become a nightmare. If you are the average white American male who works hard, you have the right to have your wealth redistributed to hostile aliens, to get married to a pig who will probably divorce you and force you to pay her until you die, to send your children to a school where they will soon be racial minorities and can be sent home for wearing an American flag t-shirt, pay for a baby-boomer pension ponzi scheme you will probably never get yourself. Americans have been sold a pipedream, and until the masses truly realise that it is a mirage, and they're really in a civilisational desert, will things change.