Chris Bray: beauty and misery, in cycles; but which cycle?

 

Chris Bray: beauty and misery, in cycles

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If we are in a cycle, then how long does it last? I'm thinking it may on a larger scale, but who knows? Then there's this:

hat tip to revolver,

and then this post with the thought...

The monk reference is with respect to the Dark Ages, when there were but a few who were attempting to save something of the culture that just evaporated into the mists of time. If it weren't for these monks, Western Civilization would likely have seen its end. How would anybody have known of the Caesar's and such things if it weren't for these monks?

Bray makes a hopeful end to the essay, but it has this has a dark undertow running underneath.

As for me, I'm wondering if my role is to be one of the "monk equivalents". There are others. Consider Kirk Sorensen and John Kutsch. If they hadn't rescued the molten-salt reactor information at Oak Ridge, the Obama Administration would have destroyed all that research. Instead, the Obama Administration gave it to the Chinese. That's right, give it all away to ANYBODY but the people who created it in the first place. It reminds me of what happened during the late decaying end of the Roman Empire, where the leadership seemed more interested in destroying the culture rather than sustaining it.

Yep, and there's a lot of indifference to outright hostility in trying to save it. It shouldn't be MAGA, it should be SAVE AMERICA so it can thrive again. This country is being murdered before our very eyes.