“Sometimes long term history impacts the now, and we’re in it. A schism — like two tectonic plates that suddenly shift after a hundred years of energy building up. This is really the end of the Western Christian Empire. (The Western Christian Empire) was bigger than the British Empire, bigger than the American Empire. This is the end of all the Christian Empires for 900 years, and America is the last one (i.e. — the last expression of that 900 year Empire). When the last one changes and declines — which it is in — (and it will be very rapid), that is the end of the old system. At the same time the system that rises challenges it (the old system) far quicker as it moves into the vacuum created by the collapse of the old system. And that is the East. And we all know that there is going to be a change. The surprise will be the rate of that change. We have viewed the new administration in Washington as new hope. Unfortunately, if you look at historical precedents of underclass and the mechanism of underclass coming to the fore demographically, it is not new hope it is the beginning of the end, and we are seeing that very quickly take place.”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/36013573
David Murrin
Head Of Emergent Hedge Fund
Author — Breaking the Code of History
1.) The Christian Empire always managed to survive somehow. When the Goths challenged brought the fall of Rome the Christians missionaries brought the Gospel to the Goths. When the Muslims challenged Christianity and Christendom God raised up Charles Martel and eventually Charlemagne. When the Muslims pressed to the gates of Vienna God closed the gap with the Christian Knights of the West. When Christianity and Christendom became corrupted by the Medieval Church God raised up the Reformation. When the British Empire fell at the end of WWI the Americans were there to take up the banner of Christendom. If America falls the doddering remains of what is left of Christendom is finished and Christianity as a faith that can inspire civilization goes into abeyance.
Some, as those foul and vile adherents of R2Kt, will say “good riddance.” But their chortling will be cut short with the first blade that is drawn across their throats as wielded by those who have triumphed over the Christian faith. Ironically, the very civilization R2Kt despised also protected their ability to rail against it. When that Christian civilization disappears, so will their ability to rail and so will their “churches”.
2.) If Murrin is correct and the West really dies there will be no place to go, no place to run, no place to hide. There will be no safe havens. If the West falls the window shade of civilization is pulled and we will return to a new dark age of tyranny, chaos, and bedlam. Most people do not realize that the command and control economies of the world only work as well as they do because they have been able to rely on the wealth generation that happens in America. For example, it is a well known fact that the Soviet Union would have collapsed years prior to 1989 if the West, w/ its wealth, had quit supporting the Soviet Union. Since this is true the collapse of the West means the collapse of the World in terms of the living standard around the world. The whole world is going to go into shock and wonder what happen when the golden goose is finally killed off.
3.) I don’t think I agree w/ Murrin about the rise of the East. China does not have the infrastructure or the economic heft to practice global hegemony. I think that that it is far more likely that we will return to an era where regional powers dominate certain geographic areas.
4.) There has been rumors that have circulated in Washington that the current administration sees its role as managing America’s decline.
5.) The question we all must ask is how do each of us prepare ourselves for the short term and long term change that is coming. I don’t know the answers to that question.
6.) Murrin’s comment about the underclass coming to the fore is a nod to the reality that w/ a wealth redistribution agenda that putatively serves the poor the consequence is fiscal catastrophe.
