Why the Roman Empire Lasted Longer Than the American Hegemony
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 2:23AM So, I was reading this article and it made me think. I now know why the American Hegemony (because it cannot rightly be called an Empire) will not endure like the Roman Empire and in fact will have a far shorter lifespan than almost any other world power. It comes down to Tolerance. Not Relativism as I might have thought earlier, but the Tolerance and Political Correctness branch of that Ism.
I will lay a little groundwork for how Relativism is self-referentially incoherent and a few of it's logical conclusions, such as Multiculturalism and Political Correctivism, but I am going to assume that you have read this article. It's not that hard to understand and it states most of what I rely on for my premise more clearly than I could. I do not agree with it's assertion that Christianity has been disproved and some of the examples it uses to show the differences between Christianity and Relativism, but a reasonably intelligent Christian should be able to figure out where and why it's incorrect. That being said, the premise of an objective reality is solid.
- Relativism says that there is no truth other than the truth that there is no truth. This is self-referentially incoherent and make Relativism the only Ism that claims not to be an Ism. (If you think I am wrong in my assertion that Relativism is self-referentially incoherent, then I have a hint for you: Relativism, you're doing it wrong.)
- If truth is entirely subject to the conditions of the observer as Relativism claims, then the logical conclusion based purely on this is that the best method for life is Fascism. Fascism says basically that the person with the strength to force his truth on everyone else should and that that it is right. So if someone can force his truth on someone else and make it their truth, that is right for him and it is right for them to accept his truth and obey him. Nazism is one of the ends of Relativism then. That is what Nietzsche teaches, his messiah was an übermensch (superman) that could bend others to his will effortlessly. Of course, that's only the logical end of Relativism if Relativism is objectively true, but if Relativism is objectively true then there an infinite number of logical conclusions to Relativism and all are equally logical. Don't worry, that makes no objective sense, it's not just you subjectively being confused.
- Multiculturalism is Relativism saying that is no real standard, just ones that have been fabricated by consensus and become culture, and since they are all fabricated, they are all equally valid and should get along or at least try. This became pervasive quickly because a legitimate Christian defense could not be constructed quickly enough to stem the tide. There is one, but it relies on carefully defining what the Bible means when it instructs us not to judge one another.
- Political Correctivism takes Multiculturalism's assertion that there is no standard and uses that as it's standard. It makes a standardless standard, it does not demand that you be nice to people with other beliefs like Multiculturalism, but actually asks you to abandon them because of the "fact" that there is no standard. It asks tha,t even if you do hold another belief or have an original idea, you not publically discuss your ideas for fear of giving offense and being punished for actually having a standard other than the one with no standard. This is not freedom, but the repression of any "offensive" dissent.
Political Correctivism's tolerance makes it impossible to test ideas against one another to determine which produces a more desirable outcome. (The desirable outcome being the ongoing survival of the happiest society in this case.) Instead, all ideas other than Political Correctivism remain firmly in the theoretical and cannot even be discussed; this leads to a general wooly-headed foolishness because no idea is exposed to failure or criticism. (If they could be discussed and criticised people might quickly discover that any foolishness they hold has already been tried and proven wrong by a dead Greek, and the view that most closely accord with reality has already been delivered to them by dead Jews and a Gentile.) This means that because hardly anyone's intelligence has been put to the test, people are on the whole, less intelligent (as evinced by the fact that few recognise Relativism as self-referentially incoherent when that was widely known previously).
This whole deadening of intelligence also deadens that national will, the belief that that cultural worldview of the Founding Fathers is the correct one, in fact, Politcal Correctivism destroys that belief wholesale and replaces it with nothing but the conviction that it was in fact terribly wrong and that white American males and any who support them must be punished for inflicting a standard on people and then having the temerity to suggest that it is right, not only for all Americans but most likely right for all. This creates an internal conflict that is almost unique to the American Hegemony. Rome did not fall from self loathing, it fell from internal corruption that left it unable to defend itself from outside forces. The American Hegemony stands ready to commit seppuku to absolve itself of the sin of existence. If a society accepts everything and cannot stand up to say that an opposing viewpoint is, in fact, an opposing viewpoint and as such cannot be tolerated it will fall to an opposing viewpoint that claims objective truth for itself ans is willing to do something about it.
If you want to build a long-lasting Relativistic society, make it a Fascist state that passes leadership to the most able. If you want to build a long-lasting society with general contentedness, build a society that is based in objective reality (*cough*Christianity*cough*), and be prepared to assert it's ideology as true against other truth claims. Multiculturalism leads to the implementation of different laws for different cultures in the same country so that no one culture imposes it self on any other equally valid culture and being conquered by a country that has conviction. Political Correctivism leads to quasi-Fascism to enforce it's standardless standard and ends up falling from a lack of will and intelligence amongst the people to a country with conviction.
Unless that American Hegemony finds some truth to cling to and to reject other truth claims by it will be taken over from the inside by Muslims who have strong enough convictions to impose their will on other.
