Social Matter

Today America is the center of the world. It is the great and mighty beast around which all nations, strong and weak, orient themselves. Even its softest steps disturbs nations worldwide, and America does not enjoy taking soft steps. It prefers dashing ahead, pounding the ground with great strength and fortitude as if to issue a challenge: “If you want stability and a status quo, it will be my stability, my status quo. My terms, all mine!”

That is America’s foreign policy since the Second World War in a nutshell. My way or the highway. And it has been an unmitigated disaster: Not just for the world, but for America and the West itself. America has resided over a period of rampant and destructive crusaderism. And not the kind the restores to the West its historical patrimony, but rather the kind that embraces the universalism of ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’, and ‘human rights’. Worse than mere platitudes, America’s homegrown universalism has not only won the hearts and minds of generations across the world. It has poisoned them. And it has mocked them.

America’s progressivism has turned half the world into its puppets by hook and crook, by extortion and murder. The Ukraine is just their latest supplicant, but the pattern has played out many times before. And those countries that resist American hegemony, like China, must still deal with the progressivist fifth column that, knowingly or unknowingly, makes the whole nation vulnerable to American servitude. Worse yet these populations find themselves unable to distinguished reality from decadence, the good from the bad, the virtue from the vice due to the pernicious degree of brainwashing required for Cathedralist corruption embed itself.

All this has been done for a purpose. This attempted domination of the minds of the world has been done for a reason. This attempted domination of the nations of the world has been done for a reason. This attempted domination of their own domestic citizenry has been done for a reason. And it is not a good one. The reason is power. Power for its own sake, best summed in the American doctrinal term of Full Spectrum Dominance. Total dominance for its own sake. This is the nature of hegemony lacking grounding. Without virtue to guide the great powers of the world, they veer towards mere survival instead of thriving. And for a hegemonic state, mere survival means maintaining lone hegemonic status at insane potential cost. And no deviation from foreign subservience can be allowed.

But American hegemony is slipping. In the process of subduing the world its own people have been subdued. The great entrepreneurial spirit of America has been chained by bureaucracy. It has been chained by welfare. It has been chained by entitlement programs. It has been chained by its own narcissistic love and self-delusion. And so the great evils the America helped thrust on to countless nations are now placed upon itself as a great weight too heavy for even mighty America to maintain. Vice, decadence, and a failing citizenry have come home to roost in the American public. Civic spirit is all but dead and the closest one gets to enlightened patriotism is the crass exclamation of “‘Merica!” from 90 IQ mouthbreathers with more interest in the next episode of Game of Thrones than in sweating and bleeding for the nation.

But it is not the end, not yet. America and the West as a whole have produced countless wonders to extend the lifeline of American commercial life. Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and across the country are changing the way America and the world operates. They are shaking up the system in an organically creative way. Through the shifting of civil society and the birth of new industries it may just be possible to revival American economic prosperity in a way unimagined since the 60s.

American foreign policy requires a similar shakeup. It has become decadent, stale, and endlessly repetitive. Now American brute force provides the justification. And it cannot stand. Not ethically, not economically, and not practically. The brightest Americans have no qualms about going abroad and the population in general has little stomach for military losses. Meanwhile America’s economy can no longer support a military that guarantees full spectrum dominance, not in the age of Assassin’s Mace weaponry and advanced Russian air defense systems. Practically speaking America’s diplomacy is failing as well. The Germans have moved towards open criticism of America’s General Breedlove (and by extension American foreign policy) while the Egyptians select Russian nuclear companies, rather than American ones, to build their massive nuclear industry. Gone are the days where America was the unrivaled leader of the free world, dominating the world in industry, diplomacy, and prestige.

If America, and the Western World which it leads, want to maintain their positions as eminent nations, they need to think. And think big. America needs to redefine its ambition, return to the natural order of things, and then pay whatever price is necessary to get there. What America needs is a New Foreign Policy. I’ll approach what that must look like in Part Two next week.