Reply #13: Any society that has become that fundamentally corrupt can't last long

[leveymg]

Either major crimes against society are punished in some way -- basic justice is essential to the legitimacy of any social order -- or that society soon collapses and is subsumed within another competing system. That's the dynamic of decline and fall of empires observed over and over again, the world over. A widely-shared perception of legitimacy is everything.

The elites presently running this system are particularly heedless of the lessons of history in how they conduct themselves and wield power without reference to any need for the appearance of legitimacy -- even wealth is a form of power that this group does not seem to know how to manage competently.

I would argue this appears the most ill-educated, arrogant, insular, and incompetent group of elites in the Anglo-American line, which is now coming to a crashing end. They are a tribe of Post-modern Primatives, and they are like the Maya. They know the end is coming, but their response is simply to increase the rate of human sacrifices.