@neofugue1 it is an impossibility. you can want it. you can advocate for it, you

@neofugue1 it is an impossibility. you can want it. you can advocate for it, you can support it. you can dream about it. but it cannot happen because the forces and incentives and economies that existed in the ancient world are as dead and gone as those people.

The reason rome started to decline is because their reach was greater than the genetic pool of men who could defend the state on one hand, the the low productivity and relative poverty of the state on the other hand.

We have far less advantage over others than the ancient world did. The coercive power was almost eliminated by the rifle, and it was econmically evicerated by the industrial revolution, and there are no assymetries of power sufficient to produce such an aristocratic minority.

And people of sufficient competency to govern at this scale of complexity can no longer be sold the false promises of religion (although you claerly have been) and the secularization of religoin into humanism continues apace with no evidence it can or will be halted.

Worse the agrarian age, it’s values, its ethics, it’s morals, its marriages, it’s properties, are as dead as the agrarian gods, who in turn were the funerary results of the thousands of dead pre-agarian gods.

There is no looking backward. Instead, we must produce incentives that craete the optimum order. And this is increasingly looking like males are screwed unless we rebalance the order.