By: Aleksander Rant
Every civilisation in history has experienced its rise, its golden age, and its decline, which usually ended in bloodshed. If we look at the first civilisations, they began their journey as agrarian communities. When there was enough food, certain people could specialise, becoming builders, blacksmiths, and eventually writers and poets. Culture flourished, cities thrived, and the first laws were written. When civilisations became soft, decadent, and arrogant, decline ensued. When they thought they could endure despite all indications to the contrary, as former German Chancellor Merkel once said, decline inevitably began. Civilisations usually fell due to two factors: morality and migration.
Let’s consider Rome, the most well-known and closest super civilisation to us. Their civilisation grew from nothing, from a tribal community of shepherds who fought with neighbouring tribes. Their civilisation valued courage, prudence, and honesty. The customs of the ancestors, as the Romans called them, are extensively written about by Cato the Elder. The Roman civilisation conquered most of Europe, the entire North Africa, the Middle East, the Levant, and present-day Turkey. The Romans were a practical civilisation, not as high-minded as the Greeks. Even today, their architectural achievements adorn the landscapes of these regions—from Great Britain to Morocco, from Germany to Egypt. And then came the decline—a rapid, ignominious decline. There are several theories about why the Roman Empire fell, but two stand out. One is the complete neglect of the moral prescriptions of the ancestors, and the other is uncontrolled migrations of entire peoples into the empire’s territory. When Roman civilisation became morally corrupt, wealthy, and decadent, it also produced such youth. Generations that knew nothing of suffering, hard work, and war, lived in an abundance of everything, and believed it would last forever. Migrations alone did not bring about the empire’s destruction. On the contrary, some emperors who temporarily averted decline came from the provinces. But when Rome began to settle entire communities within its borders, things went wrong. Large groups of people did not integrate, remaining wild, barbaric, and tribal. In the end, they destroyed the morally, financially, and militarily exhausted state from within.
WE ARE LIVING IN A TIME COMPARABLE TO THAT OF DIOCLETIAN. WE HAVE A GENERATION OR TWO LEFT TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY PEOPLE WITHOUT CHILDREN AND WITHOUT A MORAL COMPASS.
Europe today is facing a similar test. The indicators are the same. Generations born in peace and wealth have become softened. They have begun to explore new depths of sexual depravity to fill the void in their souls, a void caused by the absence of meaning. They have forgotten God, forgotten that the greatest sense of purpose for a person comes from family, partner, and faith. They have become godless, yet simultaneously seek out all kinds of exotic religions to fill the absence of God. They claim that God does not exist, that Christianity is unnecessary, and then they heal themselves with Tibetan singing bowls. On the other hand, we are opening our borders – not for those we want, but for everyone. We are importing millions and millions of people whose beliefs are incompatible with our civilisation, faith, and laws. With the social order we have established. They rape, kill, rob, and are not punished, while the local population is squeezed with taxes to feed the insatiable appetites of the elite.
We are living in a time comparable to that of Diocletian. We have a generation or two left to repair the damage caused by people without children and without a moral compass. We still have time to give our children meaning, to teach them to stand up when they fall, and to tell them that the world is only as beautiful as the effort we put into it, as much as we sacrifice for it. Above all, we must protect them from the madmen who would sexually mutilate them in the name of their perverse sexual desires and psychological issues. We still have time to protect our borders. To expel from Europe those who do not want to live by our rules. Those who want to change our laws so that we will again cut off hands, gouge out eyes, and stone people. We must strictly enforce border controls, strictly direct the police to increase surveillance at problem hotspots, and strictly prosecute those who disrupt the order of our civilisation. We need to become more aware, more grateful that we can live in a world that our parents and grandparents only dreamed of. We must save and protect this world, this civilisation. Because there is nothing better. No more successful, freer, more advanced civilisation exists. Let’s rally together, choose leaders who will defend our civilisation, and not give up. Even the Eastern Roman Empire lived for a thousand years after the Western one fell. There is still hope for us and for our Europe.