Will Societal Collapse Lead to Monarchy?
November 17, 2011
AT the blog Collapse, which is about “making sense of the coming catastrophe,” the author writes:
Over time, societies will tend toward stabler and less complex forms of organization: toward monarchy and tribalism and away from democratic bureaucracy; toward smaller-scale economic arrangements and away from large, top-heavy corporations and distribution systems; and toward localized social governance and away from centralised federalism. It must, as a matter of social necessity arising from the variable and unpredictable availability of social resources and the comparatively static and unchanging nature of social organization.
The hilarious thing is that nothing but a monarchical figure can halt this trend, and the trend (if not halted) leads us back to monarchy, anyway.
He also writes:
Democratic societies are probably especially prone to such [social] collapses because the masses of men are short-sighted and ignorant, and because democracy itself deals with reality only in tiny, two-year chunks. But the problems that kill society don’t boil up in the span of two years. They fester for generations with symptoms only the wisest of men can notice, and then they metastasize, killing the host with astonishing rapidity. It takes a strong man to force the changes that societies need in order to adapt to the social reality. This is why monarchical societies endure for centuries, if not millennia, where youngling America is already burning out and the rest of the degenerate West is on the brink of population collapse and demographic conquest by hostile foreigners.