Comments on: After Gods, Heroes and Gold Comes the Age of Lint http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/after-gods-heroes-and-gold-comes-the-age-of-lint/ Whiskey and Gunpowder features articles on gold, oil, currencies, emerging markets, energy, and more. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:22:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: On the Economy « Pond’rings http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/after-gods-heroes-and-gold-comes-the-age-of-lint/comment-page-1/#comment-3834 On the Economy « Pond’rings Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:06:00 +0000 http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/?p=5516#comment-3834 [...] Circa 2009, there is hardly a soul in the entire world who has not been corrupted by the barbarie della reflessione of the late imperial period. Both patricians and plebes are for bailouts. Both business and labor back stimulus programs. The taxpayers and the politicians who rule them are of one mind. Liberal, conservative, rich, poor, Republican, Democrat all speak with a single voice: ‘Screw the next generation!” The golden age is over, in other words. In the space of 40 years it passed from gold, to silver, to paper…and is now somewhere between plastic and navel lint. -Whiskey and Gunpowder [...] [...] Circa 2009, there is hardly a soul in the entire world who has not been corrupted by the barbarie della reflessione of the late imperial period. Both patricians and plebes are for bailouts. Both business and labor back stimulus programs. The taxpayers and the politicians who rule them are of one mind. Liberal, conservative, rich, poor, Republican, Democrat all speak with a single voice: ‘Screw the next generation!” The golden age is over, in other words. In the space of 40 years it passed from gold, to silver, to paper…and is now somewhere between plastic and navel lint. -Whiskey and Gunpowder [...]

]]> By: Gus Karmack http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/after-gods-heroes-and-gold-comes-the-age-of-lint/comment-page-1/#comment-3770 Gus Karmack Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:43:31 +0000 http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/?p=5516#comment-3770 In his book The New Science published in the first half of the 1700's ( I think it was around 1744)Giambattista Vico also noted that the explorers of the "New World" had brought back copious evidence that all civilizations around the world, no matter how backward - even tribal - were characterized by the following identical triad of social pillars. The three pillars of society were: Some form of religion placing a God or God's above man imposing morality and civil engineering. Some form of balanced governance that prevented one person or group from assuming absolute power. Some form of marriage that maintained the foundational family structure to raise children. All three are actually interrelated and cross supportive. Weaken any one and the stool lists to one side; Kick any one out and the entire structure collapses. I find it interesting that all three are under intense pressure by dissolusive social forces in America. If even one of any three of these go we will fall far faster than Rome. It seems to me that the assault on God and Marriage seem to be gaining momentum while Socialism a masked version of Communism (Bolshevism is the unmasked version) is making headway. And Communism is simply the usurpation of power by a single person in the form of a Cult of Personality or a small group that rules in a Politbureau type structure (Like all those unappointed Czars!) under cover of realocating weath from the rich to the poor which, instead destroys the very weath they actually wish to grasp for themselves most ly out of sheer envy and resentment that they don't have it. God (ooops!) help us! I have the honor to be respectfully yours, In his book The New Science published in the first half of the 1700′s ( I think it was around 1744)Giambattista Vico also noted that the explorers of the “New World” had brought back copious evidence that all civilizations around the world, no matter how backward – even tribal – were characterized by the following identical triad of social pillars. The three pillars of society were:

Some form of religion placing a God or God’s above man imposing morality and civil engineering.
Some form of balanced governance that prevented one person or group from assuming absolute power.
Some form of marriage that maintained the foundational family structure to raise children.

All three are actually interrelated and cross supportive. Weaken any one and the stool lists to one side; Kick any one out and the entire structure collapses.

I find it interesting that all three are under intense pressure by dissolusive social forces in America. If even one of any three of these go we will fall far faster than Rome. It seems to me that the assault on God and Marriage seem to be gaining momentum while Socialism a masked version of Communism (Bolshevism is the unmasked version) is making headway. And Communism is simply the usurpation of power by a single person in the form of a Cult of Personality or a small group that rules in a Politbureau type structure (Like all those unappointed Czars!) under cover of realocating weath from the rich to the poor which, instead destroys the very weath they actually wish to grasp for themselves most ly out of sheer envy and resentment that they don’t have it.

God (ooops!) help us!

I have the honor to be respectfully yours,

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