It’s a question, not an answer.
I must apologize to my few remaining readers and viewers, but the older I get the less interested I become in politics. Someone once said that politics is “Hollywood for ugly people”, and it is true in more than one way — it is, in fact, little more than theatre, play acting. None of it is real. The real deals happen behind closed doors, away from the media, between people you’ve never heard about.
But the masses like to pay attention to politics, because of all the drama. So it is what it is.
In the last video, I said that the 1990s were cool, or, at least, better that what came after in the 2000s, but then someone from Russia said, “No, the 90s sucked!”
One funny thing I found, is that, no matter what you say, there is always going to be someone who disagrees.
In any case, of course I was mostly talking about the American Empire — you know, the US, Western Europe and South America. The part of the world that was under the Iron Curtain went of course through a different timeline. And Eastern Europe was always a different universe.
Today I tend to think that the Cold War was mostly fake, and that the same families basically ruled both systems, but still, they were very different systems, and so in that context it made sense for Western Europe to be allied with the United States. The politicians and the companies got their money and people got their individual freedom and their consumerist paradise.
But now, what is Europe getting from the US, except being forced to buy American weapons, American gas, to have American military bases, to be involved in their wars and to import their multiculturalism and their increasingly weird culture?
I’ve lived in the US, in South America and now in Europe, and the decay in all three regions is very visible, but most especially in Western Europe.
So, Europe could only gain from leaving the influence of the US and the Anglosphere, and have more friendly relations with China and Russia. It just makes sense, even because of resources and geographical proximity. Also, China and Russia are not perfect, but they do not seem so interested in promoting, you know, multiculturalism and gay marriage as moral imperatives.
Now, notice that I am talking about China and Russia, I’m not talking about BRICS. I don’t think Brazil and India are ever going to be very relevant, except maybe as regional powers, and South Africa not even that. But China and Russia are going to be very relevant to Europe, and I don’t think Europe gains much by making them their enemies, just because Uncle Sam said so.
Of course, the main problem of Europe is spiritual. They just don’t believe in themselves anymore. They don’t believe in their traditions or their culture. They believe only in angry climate gods. Hedonism and instant gratification and consumerism is all they care about, and they can’t even be bothered to reproduce. Abortion for the young, euthanasia for the old.
So unless the culture can change in more profound ways, I don’t see any future, regardless what happens. China and Russia are just more confident cultures right now. Europe is old and decadent, in more ways than one.
But, then again, what do we know? Maybe something else will happen, something that we still don’t quite know or understand. Maybe things will change. Maybe Europe can be saved. Let us hope. Let us pray.
