Supposing, Just Supposing.

I have a list of sites that I read daily and whose views I take seriously.

Sic Semper Tyrannis is one of these.  The folks who post here are pretty damn smart and pretty damn thoughtful.   I will always factor opinions found here into my ponderings.

But I think sometimes that they are folks that are immersed in the past.  I have much the same problem myself.  The mental model here in the US among both the Hoi Polloi and the erstwhile patriciate is that of a successful empire.  That was true for most of my adult lifetime.  I don't think that it is true anymore.

I think that all the news and all the sound and fury of late, coming from nearly all directions, is that of a country unwilling to accept the fact that their opinions may not hold sway over the decisions of others. 

I really should stop paying attention to this nonsense

Yes, I voted for the idiot.  No, I am not sorry about it.  I still say it was better than voting for the other one.

Choosing between bad choices sucks like that.  I still say that there is a better chance of avoiding war with Trumpolino than with the Bitch.

Neither offered us much hope.

Should be more careful about saving what I write

Now that Donnie is using the troops for what they are actually designed to do (protecting the country instead of running amok thousands of miles from here, I am saddened that I unceremoniously tossed the abortive beginnings of a book started a couple of years ago.

You see, one of the characters was an Army Captain in charge of a patrol in Texas, keeping out the barbarian hordes.

You see, we humans always sing the same song.  The core takes as much as they can from the periphery, the periphery grows too many people (after all, if you aren't rich, all you have left for entertainment is fucking), the periphery people take unwanted notice of the core's "nice stuff", and lay in their plans for an extended, multigenerational vacation.

The pictures to the right are of reconstructions of the gates of Roman forts in Germany.  Designed to keep the barbarians out of the Roman area.  They actually worked for quite a while.  Couple hundred years as a matter of fact.

But they did eventually fail.  But even one hundred years is worth it.  Donnie is right on this one, and the troops will have to come back home and bre re-deployed to keep the other folks out.

Because, despite what anyone else claims, there really isn't enough to go around now.  Even worse, the environmental and social collapse that the environment and economy are currently brewing is going to make things a lot worse.

I am all for buying the hundred or so years that the Limes Mexicanus and the Limes Canadisus will buy us.  I do this even knowing the final fate of such a project

Remainders of the The tower "WP 14/55" at the Upper German-Raetian border wall