Monday Essays for the Silenced Majority

Every empire in history has followed the same trajectory.
https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/07/convulsions-of-dying-empire.html

Diversity + proximity = war. That's why nations exist.
https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/07/immigrants-are-global-problem.html

In this piece, the demographic that frightens me is the Nazis, or as I call them, the "Do-Gooders"; people with the congenital inability to "live and let live". They often operate from the most noble of sentiments (like the Temperance League), but the harm they do and have done, is incalculable.
https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2019/07/do-humans-have-value-in-ai-world.html

Substitute "Australia" for "America" and you have an accurate picture of what's happening on this side of the lake. The division here may be simpler than in the U.S. and is developing along the lines of "country" vs "city".
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-two-americas.html

Where are the Greens? Isn't this the sort of environmental vandalism they claim to oppose? Aren't they opposing a proposed wind-farm in Tasmania for exactly the same reason? Have they outlived their utility?
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2019/07/27/more-bad-news-on-wind-turbines-in-bass-straight-grid-wrecking-bird-killers/

This is part-and-parcel of the decline and fall of a civilisation. John Greer did a whole series of posts on this theme in his old blog "The Archdruid Report".
The short form is that, since the Enlightenment, the role of religion has been replaced by the Academy (shorthand for all the sciences) and like religion before it, it's harnessed to the service of the dominant minority (elites) who use it to justify their rule. In our declining civilisation, the animosity of the ordinary people is directed at all the institutions seen to be supporting what they percieve to be a corrupt, incompetent oligarchy. Fed-up with the "dominant minority", people are turning their backs on the institutions that support them (including the Academy) and are seeking meaning and purpose in the margins. Precisely where religion was relegated, at the start of the Industrial Revolution.
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=18190

Jim Kunstler, with his usual, acerbic analysis of the decline and fall of the American Empire.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/things-to-come/