The Empire Never Ended!
Accepting our Feudal nature can be Relaxing
I want to share with you something that, curiously and somewhat counter-intuitively, I have recently found relaxing.
Fans of American sci-fi novelist, Philip K. Dick, will no doubt recognize the title of this piece - The Empire Never Ended. This statement is found repeatedly in the exegesis of the character Horselover Fat in Dick’s 1981 novel, VALIS, released not long before he passed away.
Dick was referring to the Roman Empire and the notion that it had died out around the 4th century CE. In VALIS, his contention was that this was not the case. Rather, he claimed, the Empire had instead morphed and was continuing to this day, keeping the general population in a “black iron prison.”
Taking a momentary diversion here, those of you who like at times to go full-tinfoil-hat (God, I love that phrase) may be intrigued to read of Russian academic Anatoly Fomenko and his “new chronology.”
Fomenko, supported by chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, has repeatedly claimed that the Dark Ages never happened and that we actually passed from around 0 CE to 1000 CE overnight. Fomenko’s volumes of “proof” to support his claims look dubious to me. But anyway, let’s get back on track.
In considering the sheer speed with which Western society has shifted from being a democracy upholding free speech and the rights of the individual, towards becoming a totalitarian technocracy, I think it’s valid to look at all options.
Because, just a decade ago, it would I think have seemed unthinkable to most of us that we could be where we are now. We find a media and government obsessed with narrative control on a whole variety of political and scientific issues, riding roughshod over any contrary opinions and using every dirty trick in the bag to marginalise those who dare to not agree.
How to make sense of this?
How could a democracy like ours have become subverted so quickly?
Easy, I say. Actually, the Empire never did end. We never were democratic in anything more than name. We have remained a feudal autocracy throughout the ages.
It is simply that, in time-honoured fashion, when the bosses of our culture felt secure and in a good mood, they became magnanimous. We were granted privileges - free speech, healthcare, running water and the option to vote for an assortment of politicians.
But, now that both internal and external wars are consuming the West, now that the feudal power-base is actively threatened from both within and without, those privileges are getting rolled back pretty sharpish.
The West needs to get as many citizens behind one narrative as it possibly can, if it is to stand much chance of repelling Eastern power-blocks like China and Russia. Too much discussion and in-fighting and we risk becoming overwhelmed industrially or militarily. Dissidents can no longer be tolerated and need to be thoroughly marginalised. The power-base acts to protect itself.
Another huge issue for the West is that, over the last decades, most citizens have turned against things like war or working hard for industrial capitalism. Can you imagine what would happen if the UK declared war on Russia, for example? Can you see young Westerners queuing around the block to sign up for military training? I can’t.
And post-Covid, it seems like no one wants to do those traditional industrial jobs anymore. We all want to find ourselves, not work for the man, nine to five. I’m the same.
In short, we have become useless to our masters. What empire needs citizens who will neither fight nor work for it? Thus, all public services can safely be run into the ground and the people just left to struggle on. As long as they don’t actually revolt in a manner that threatens the Empire, who cares?
And the thing is… I actually find this quite relaxing!
When I believed that we were being driven forwards by democracy, free speech, a free press and the rights of the individual, I struggled with the speed of change happening over the last few years. But now that my, if I’m honest, long-term suspicions appear confirmed, I can more chill with it. Yup, the Empire never ended. That’s how it is.
And, because I believe I have a more accurate model of how the West actually functions now, I can better steer myself, and those I care about, through any troubles that might come our way. My expectation is less out of tune with reality. And I think expectations have a lot to do with what we’re currently going through.
Thank you for reading.
I’ll respond to a few points:
> How could a democracy like ours have become subverted so quickly? Easy, I say. Actually, the Empire never did end
While I agree with you that feudalism and empire never ended, one doesn’t need any specific empire to have remained to conclude that we never had a democracy and only had demotism.
> Too much discussion and in-fighting and we risk becoming overwhelmed industrially or militarily.
This is somewhat reductive. After all, your post existing demonstrates dissident positions being permitted. What they’re encouraging is a controlled accelerated infighting, not an enforced singular vision. Something to remember as we get caught up in these matters
> Dissidents can no longer be tolerated and need to be thoroughly marginalised.
It’s less that dissidents aren’t tolerated, and more that dissidents lives are made deeply uncomfortable. Which is how power has always treated dissidents, and how could one expect otherwise? The illusion is that everyone we were told was a dissident was in fact sponsored.
> Another huge issue for the West is that, over the last decades, most citizens have turned against things like war or working hard for industrial capitalism
This assumes some sort of organic problem emerging, rather than a controlled transition, like an enclosure of society into a new form of the feudalism you rightly described.
> We all want to find ourselves, not work for the man, nine to five. I’m the same. In short, we have become useless to our masters. What empire needs citizens who will neither fight nor work for it?
This seems to mistake symptoms for causes. We have been made redundant, our labor is not wanted, less than it is not utilizable due to our lack of motivation
Overall, great conclusion.
Delighted to read this! I have written a great deal about the Roman Empire which never died.
Please see: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/who-rules-the-world
and : https://francesleader.substack.com/p/what-does-the-rule-of-law-mean
and this one for their future plans: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/the-mother-of-all-false-flag-events