The End of Western Civilization

Throughout history many societies have come and gone. Some include the Spartans, the Sumerians, the Nabataeans, the Mayans and the Olmec to just name a few.  Each society was unique with some societies being more advanced than others. Some we know a lot about and others we know little about. However, there is one thing that is common among them all and that is that they all collapsed and are no longer with us.   

When we look at today’s societies which have existed for thousands of years we see Tonga, Java, Japanese, Chinese and Tikopea.  So, what is it that makes one society robust and another vulnerable? Some argue the problem is complicated and multi-factorial in nature where as others see it as a binary.   

The multi-factorial schools see the issues as that of climate change, friendly and hostile neighbors, environmental damages and an inability to respond to cultural issues to be the core pf the problems leading to collapse whereas the binary factorial school see it simply as two main causes; foreign invaders and sub-replacement fertility.    

Taking a closer look at these two opposing ideas many of the multi-factorial schools causes tend to be able to be categorized in one or the other causes of the binary factorial school’s philosophical causes. For instance, hostile or friendly neighbors are foreign invasions of a sort and environmental damage, climate change and cultural response can be classified as a factor causing a sub-replacement fertility issue.   

When we look at foreign invasions and sub-replacement fertility, they too can be categorized as closely related. Indeed, it could be stated that there is a correlation or causation between sub-replacement fertility and foreign invasion. In the past, a decrease in population greatly increased the likelihood of a foreign invasion and in our current modern times it could be imagined that a soft-invasion as is being seen now with in illegal migrant issues seen across the globe is highly likely and there is great concern as projections of areas of Europe are predicted to undergo substantial cultural shifts on religious lines in the as little as 20 years or one generation.   

 Today’s population crisis is not one that you expect, one of too many people but the contrary, one of not enough children where countries commit suicide in slow motion as women on average have less than the 2.1 children required to just maintain current populations. Indeed, sub-replacement fertility rates are pandemic at the least (Psomiadis, Dotsika, Albanakis, Ghaleb, & Hillaire-Marcel, 2018).  And this slow-motion suicide is one like the frog in a pot on a stove, it grows upon us unnoticed and does not attract attention until it is too late. In the past, the Greek historian Polybius blamed the reduction of the population and productiveness on men’s desires for an idle life and money, not marrying nor raising children (Champion, 2018).  

Today’s gynocentric societies have effeminized men to the point where being masculine is frowned upon and considered immoral. Additionally, men have been removed entirely from the nuclear family and only called upon as a disposable resourced perceived to be preyed upon by women who claim to be equal but different.   

The Roman Emperor Augustus, in a speech to nobles, deliberated how could we retain our society if we neither marry nor have children. It is not as if they will spring from the earth spontaneously, as the woman ripens and bares fruit automatically as thought in times past.  How is it that our race should cease, and our cities be given to foreigners be they Greek or barbarians? We have liberated slaves specifically and purposely as to make as many of them as possible into citizens; We give our allies a share in our government that our numbers may increase, yet you are eager that your families and names at once shall perish with you.   

At the time, the replacement fertility rate was approximately 2.5 children on average. Today, some proponents, whether considered extreme or not, suggest the reduction or recidivation of women’s rights or privileges to increase the fertility rate to meet the minimum replacement level of 2.1 children on average required to maintain western civilization today. It has been established time and time again in the historical record that without maintaining this minimum replacement fertility rate that societal collapse is imminent.   

However, this is impossible to achieve as I am sure even the mention of any form of expecting women to give or take regarding this goal infuriates even women who are not feminists let alone feminists or even the effeminized men who cherish today’s gynocentric society with its lack of male authority. No matter how offensive one finds any suggestion of mandating anything regarding woman, and the fact that there have been many mandates all throughout history, there has never been any evidence that it would succeed anyhow as it has always been, time after time, too little too late.  Dare it be said, it is evident that we are doomed to repeat history.   

One of the apparent correlations evident is the fact that since women have been given the right to vote, the scope and size of government has dramatically increased to the point of being a welfare state (Lott Jr & Kenny, 1999) and this is apparent today in countries such as the US, Canada, England, the Nordic countries and many other western countries (See figure 2). Therefore, theoretically, some form of modification to the way we vote for our governments would eliminate the welfare state which is destroying western civilization today by trying to replace its current form of governments with that of a Marxist or other form of non-western civilization ideology (Lott & Kenny, 1999).    

The results would be a substantial reduction in the huge rising-out-of-control taxation rates currently employed by federal, state, provincial and municipal governments across western nations, specifically, a reduction in the per capital government expenditures and per capita government revenue.   

A brief overview of figure 2 shows the direct positive correlation between the scope and size of government and taxation and women’s right to vote. The zero (0) denotes the first-year women could vote and the -10 and 10 on the horizontal access denotes the ten years before and after women could vote. The graph shows a doubling of both revenue and expenditures within ten years of women obtaining the vote.   

  This increase of taxation was the beginning of wealth redistribution to the poor and the increase of wealth transfers from men to women which includes post-divorce. According to IRS data men pay almost double the taxes as women (Kastlunger, Dressler, Kirchler, Mittone, & Voracek, 2010) and have far less of that tax spent on them per capita (Feldstein & Wrobel, 1998).   

  Again, some may feel that this discussion is extreme, however, there is a more extreme angle to this discussion and that is of not having this discussion, particularly because some highbrow may feel this to be in bad taste. To allow a civilization to collapse because a society too-PC is somewhat poetic.  

  References   

Champion, C. B. (2018). Polybius on ‘Classical Athenian Imperial Democracy’. The Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought, 123.  

Daniel-Hughes, C. (2018). Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians. Journal of the American Academy of Religion.  

Feldstein, M., & Wrobel, M. V. (1998). Can state taxes redistribute income? Journal of Public Economics, 68(3), 369-396.  

Kastlunger, B., Dressler, S. G., Kirchler, E., Mittone, L., & Voracek, M. (2010). Sex differences in tax compliance: Differentiating between demographic sex, gender-role orientation, and prenatal masculinization (2D: 4D). Journal of economic psychology, 31(4), 542-552.  

Lott, J., John R, & Kenny, L. W. (1999). Did women's suffrage change the size and scope of government? Journal of political Economy, 107(6), 1163-1198.  

Lott Jr, J., & Kenny, L. (1999). How dramatically did women’s suffrage change the size and scope of government?“John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 60. In. 

Psomiadis, D., Dotsika, E., Albanakis, K., Ghaleb, B., & Hillaire-Marcel, C. (2018). Speleothem record of climatic changes in the northern Aegean region (Greece) from the Bronze Age to the collapse of the Roman Empire. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 489, 272-283.