29 Aug 7 Signs of Cultural Suicide from Falling Rome…
Posted at 12:41h
in A C W T Statements
It’s fashionable and not surprising to reflect these days on the fall of Rome…this post from X is pretty potent in that regard.
But the fall of America is not inevitable; it is reversible. Waking up to evil and moral decay is the first step…
________________
Be Her Leader
@beherleader
7 signs of cultural suicide from falling Rome (and the West has them ALL):
1. Women in blood sports
In falling Rome, topless female gladiators fought male dwarves in the Colosseum.
Nero made senators’ wives fight to the death.
‘To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.’ – Fulton Sheen
LESSON: the virtue of the women in a culture shows its spiritual health.
2. Decaying cities
In falling Rome, high-rise slums replaced great buildings.
No monuments were built either.
As Kenneth Clark said, ‘civilisation requires confidence in the society in which one lives’.
LESSON: architecture reflects cultural confidence.
3. Falling fertility
In falling Rome, the poor lost the confidence to sire children; the rich saw them as a burden.
Anal intercourse was popular birth control.
‘Childlessness prevailed.’ – Tacitus
The fertility-replacement rate is 2.1
The USA and UK = 1.7
Niger and Somalia = 6.8 and 6
LESSON: a culture that doesn’t think life is worth living won’t create life.
4. Unmarried males
In falling Rome, men saw marriage as a burden, starting with the elites.
Instead, prostitution, homosexuality and bi-sexuality were rife.
‘How can the commonwealth be preserved if we neither marry nor produce children?’ – Augustus
‘The family may be regarded as the cradle of civil society, and it is in great measure within the circle of family life that the destiny of states is fostered.’ – Pope Leo XIII
LESSON: marriage matters
5. Abortion
In falling Rome, many women died or became infertile from abortion attempts.
Babies were thrown in the sewers or left in the streets for animals to eat.
The UK exceeds 200,000 abortions annually. Without this, it would be at replacement fertility.
LESSON: after you’ve rationalised killing your own children, depravity snowballs.
6. Trashing tradition
In falling Rome, a below-replacement fertility rate meant Rome depended on immigrants.
But the immigrants didn’t follow the Roman traditions. Why?
The elites *themselves* no longer upheld them.
LESSON: the rot starts at the top.
7. Feminism
In falling Rome, motherhood was devalued.
But as the historian Jerome Carpocino observed, ‘By copying men too closely the Roman woman succeeded more rapidly in emulating man’s vices than in acquiring his strength.’
LESSON: feminism is misogyny.
TLDR: 7 Signs of Cultural Suicide from Ancient Rome
1. Women in blood sports
2. Decaying cities
3. Falling fertility
4. Unmarried males
5. Abortion
6. Trashing tradition
7. Feminism
Which sign is clearest today?
