Thursday, September 07, 2017
Solid-state feedback
Decadent empires stop reproducing. This is obvious and well-known. God's natural justice.
One specific part of the justice is not discussed quite as often. Decadent empires have always used eunuchs as courtiers because they're less likely to compete with the emperor. Eunuchs have high status in decadent empires, leading ordinary people to copy their style and lack of output and lack of opposition to the Emperor.
The Bible is full of eunuchs.
Esther gives us Persia:
On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits from wine, he commanded the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Karkas—
Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women;
Isaiah gives us Babylon, with a prophetic distaste:
And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
Matthew gives us Ethiopia:
So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury...
And we know from later history that the Ottoman and Chinese Empires were tran-sister-ized well into the 20th Century.
Matthew explains in recognizable modern terms.
For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.
And that's where we get the modern behavior of immigrant-loving bishops and Popes.
Metajustice:
The elevation of eunuchs began as a way of ELIMINATING inhibitory input and feedback to the Emperor. No contrary advice wanted. All exp, no tanh. Only pluponents need apply.
God turned it into the ultimate inhibitory input, gradual shutdown of the whole Empire, "enervated, spent, having consumed themselves in excess, contradiction, and failed attempts to pursue life while ignoring the Author of life."
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Extending the metaphor left as extra-credit supplementary reading.
Labels: Emersonian justice, Pluponents
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