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1 year ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)2 children
lol. lmao, even.
Nearly every single dead culture and civilization on the planet was one of those. Pick a dead society, and trace its rise and fall, and invariably, their culture stagnated and they were killed by a superior one.
Even the Western Roman Empire fell to this. How? Rome spent its last 150 years accomplishing literally fuck-all nothing. Most of the Roman Emperors spent all their time worrying about who they were going to kill, when they were going to be killed, and how much money they could steal before they were killed. The most glorious era of Rome was when Romans cared about the progress and advancement for the glory of Rome.
By the time Rome died, most Romans didn't give a fuck about the Roman Empire. Even Rome itself was allowed to be sacked and emperor Avitus couldn't be bothered to care. Rome stagnated while the Germanic tribes had progressed in technology, organization, and tactics.
The American Indians didn't progress shit, they were too busy with their 'traditions' worshipping every fucking rock as some new god. What happened when a culture who *did* progress met them?
The Aztecs progressed, the Mayans didn't, and the Aztecs had superior weapons, armies, technology, and had developed a civilization with great architectural works. The Mayans ended up completely subservient and enslaved to them.
1 year ago6 points(+0/-0/+6Score on mirror)1 child
The Indians were inferior and weaker than their competition. They could have painted themselves White and penned a constitution, that wouldn't make them any less than what they were.
It wasn't their ways that killed them, it was their nature.
1 year ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
Was it in the 'nature' of the Roman to fall to the Goths?
Aristotle was Greek. Greece used to be at the forefront of all science, civilization, and technology. But then what happened?
Rome progressed. Greece didn't. The Romans created the Byzantine Empire out of Greece. The Ottomans progressed. The Byzantine Empire didn't.
***"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:***
***Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"***
*Nothing beside remains. Round the decay*
*Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare*
*The lone and level sands stretch far away.*
1 year ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
Part of what killed Rome was that their geography outstretched their sphere of influence. They were multicultural to a fault, having no shared history and no social cohesion brought on partly, as you described, a corrupt and aristocratic Senate and government that cared more about its own intrigue than serving its people.
It was both a lack of tradition (which creates a shared/common identity) and a lack of progress. "You stand together or you fall apart." When Whites band together by shared ancestry (and thus shared customs and practices, aka *traditions*), we fly to the moon and shit. When we stick to our traditions too tightly and balkanize (yet still progress), we kill some 80 million of ourselves and give the jews land in the Middle East.
Aristotle is right (again). You need an appropriate mix of tradition (common customs and practices, "common sense") that unites you as a people, but once united as a people you need to not stagnate and sit on your laurels lest you be overrun.
Aristotle basically described evolution but on a cultural level. A species that is the master of its domain, hyper-specialized, will die when an invasive species arrives, or there's a global cooling, or something. It's why mammals took over after the dinosaurs, they were too specialized, mammals were more adaptable, able to weather the K-T global catastrophe.
kind of like large corps that calcify and are unable to make the correct changes. even if they know, and they setup a team to get it done. but they can't, because the organization's traditions and culture resist it at every step. constantly undercut and backstabbed.
while the smaller, more energetic and focused companies start to eat their lunch and pillage their best employees. leaving the larger company still large and slow, but now also completely incompetent, ready to be feasted on by progress.
Nearly every single dead culture and civilization on the planet was one of those. Pick a dead society, and trace its rise and fall, and invariably, their culture stagnated and they were killed by a superior one.
Even the Western Roman Empire fell to this. How? Rome spent its last 150 years accomplishing literally fuck-all nothing. Most of the Roman Emperors spent all their time worrying about who they were going to kill, when they were going to be killed, and how much money they could steal before they were killed. The most glorious era of Rome was when Romans cared about the progress and advancement for the glory of Rome.
By the time Rome died, most Romans didn't give a fuck about the Roman Empire. Even Rome itself was allowed to be sacked and emperor Avitus couldn't be bothered to care. Rome stagnated while the Germanic tribes had progressed in technology, organization, and tactics.
The American Indians didn't progress shit, they were too busy with their 'traditions' worshipping every fucking rock as some new god. What happened when a culture who *did* progress met them?
The Aztecs progressed, the Mayans didn't, and the Aztecs had superior weapons, armies, technology, and had developed a civilization with great architectural works. The Mayans ended up completely subservient and enslaved to them.
It wasn't their ways that killed them, it was their nature.
Aristotle was Greek. Greece used to be at the forefront of all science, civilization, and technology. But then what happened?
Rome progressed. Greece didn't. The Romans created the Byzantine Empire out of Greece. The Ottomans progressed. The Byzantine Empire didn't.
***"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:***
***Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"***
*Nothing beside remains. Round the decay*
*Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare*
*The lone and level sands stretch far away.*
It was both a lack of tradition (which creates a shared/common identity) and a lack of progress. "You stand together or you fall apart." When Whites band together by shared ancestry (and thus shared customs and practices, aka *traditions*), we fly to the moon and shit. When we stick to our traditions too tightly and balkanize (yet still progress), we kill some 80 million of ourselves and give the jews land in the Middle East.
Aristotle is right (again). You need an appropriate mix of tradition (common customs and practices, "common sense") that unites you as a people, but once united as a people you need to not stagnate and sit on your laurels lest you be overrun.
while the smaller, more energetic and focused companies start to eat their lunch and pillage their best employees. leaving the larger company still large and slow, but now also completely incompetent, ready to be feasted on by progress.