Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the right role of government is to promote social cohesion, by keeping the peace, protecting the people from foreign invaders, and maintaining the societal myth. Government then, that doesn’t do these things, or some of them but not all, is a government that’s falling short of its obligations. An examination of historic governments shows that when they miss the mark on these things, that government is not long to live. Not because the people hate the government or the elite, but because that government is cutting out it’s own intestines, and using them as calamari. Then it’s baffled why it can’t find nourishment in them. Such a government is doomed by its own idiocy. Let’s examine the governments of the world today, with an eye to these metrics.
The CCP guards its societal myth with fervor. No criticism of it is allowed whatsoever without swift and sure criminal punishment. Every action is closely monitored to insure violent crime is rare and only State sanctioned crimes are allowed. Moreover, the CCP maintains the world’s biggest navy. A mortal threat to any would be invader. So on the surface, the CCP is doing it’s part in maintaining social cohesion, in its own draconian way. But is it? For a societal myth to be accepted, the rulers or leaders must act it out. Leading by example. If a societal myth, such as the communist one, is to be embraced by the masses, then the rulers have to embrace it first. Hypocrisy in this case is deadly to it. Crime pays in China, and an expansionist government invites war. Making the CCP’s China brittle.
Russia has no societal myth to guard. It lost the communist societal myth when the Iron Curtain fell. Today it’s scrambling for one. The Russian identity seems to be the one they are coalescing around. Crime is rife in Russia. Dealing with criminal enterprises is simply doing business in Russia. Or so I am to believe from the media. Plus they are engaged in an existential war with NATO. It would seem that Russia is not meeting it’s duty as a government. Yet Putin’s government is the sturdiest in the world today. Russia however is still gelling from the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The war with Ukraine is a function of the scrambling of psychopaths for new land. Like in Maui after the fires. Since NATO leaders have openly stated, regime change is the goal in the Ukraine war, Russia is in survival mode.
The EU is doing everything possible to undermine its Enlightenment societal myth and replace it with the post modernist one. Dangerous to say the least. Even as the EU encourages crime and lawlessness, with unlimited immigration, double standards in law, and malinvestment of law enforcement assets. The knife crime in London is horrendous. With the innovations of bombings in Stockholm and riots in Germany, it’s safe to say that the EU has failed at keeping the peace. Then there is the expansion of NATO. War on someone else land seems like a good idea, until it comes home. As it always does. On all counts the EU is failing and failing miserably. It can’t be a shock that social cohesion in Europe is collapsing. Proving EU elites are expert at playing the fiddle.
The US government has not so much taken the path of the EU as it cut the trail. The US government is vehemently opposed to the American societal myth. Even calling it racist and anti woman. The rule of law is a joke in the US, with the open double standards, exploiting law as a political weapon and allowing violent crime to go unpunished. While the State has us paying for a proxy war of expansion bringing the threat of nuclear retaliation upon our heads. The US elites are failing by every measure. Of all the governments I’ve listed, it’s the US government that’s the closest to collapse. Even as the EU and Biden corruptocracy, point a finger at the pending fall of the CCP and Russia, there are three pointing back at them. Using your own guts for calamari is not a long term solution to an insatiable appetite.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
