No analogies
For a long time it's been easy to compare the American Empire with the Roman Empire. More valid and immediate comparison, of course, is Orlov's analogy to the Soviet Empire.

But we've gone waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond those two.

The late Romans weren't TRYING to destroy civilization. They weren't taking ACTIVE STEPS to blow up everything their ancestors had built; they just forgot their history and let things decay.

Lenin had tried briefly to destroy the structure of families, but gave up and focused on building a strong totalitarian country.

No, that's not enough for us. We're taking active steps to RIP UP everything our ancestors did, and we're working amazingly hard to destroy the structure of culture and families.

What was the first step in forming civilizations? Keeping out predatory animals. Finding ways to exclude lions and tigers and bears from human settlements. So naturally we have to bring them back. We have to re-implant bears and wolves, and viciously PUNISH anyone who dares to oppose them.

What's another big step? Draining miasmal swamps to get rid of mosquitoes, and building dams and irrigation systems to move water where it will help to produce food and energy. So naturally we blow up dams, "restore" canals into useless streams, refill miasmal swamps that our ancestors had drained, and even build new malarial swamps where swamps didn't naturally occur.

Smashing family structure? Watch any TV show to see how it's done. Or listen to the politicians who have "completed their fucking personal journey" and "evolved" into raw gibbering psychopathic genocidal mass murderers.

No, you can't make those Roman or Soviet analogies any more. We're fucking PIONEERS. We're truly fucking UNPRECEDENTED. Nobody in the history of the world, not humans nor any other animal or plant, has INTENTIONALLY RIPPED THEIR OWN CIVILIZATION INTO BLOODY SHREDS.
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