June 16, 2025

1 thought on “Asses&Villains: The Decaying Corpse of the American Republic

  1. The so-called “American Experiment” (I wonder what academic came up with that expression) is and has always been an “experiment,” like the Roman Experiment, and the Babylonian Experiment, and the Assyrian Experiment, and on and on and on and on and on!

    In no “civilization” or “civilized society” I have studied have succeeding generation ever stayed the same, but instead go through an evolutionary process from rise, to maturity, and then decadence and decay, which is happening here right now, where fewer and fewer people actually work, as opposed to being employed at something.

    And while in 1899, Gaetano Mosca might have written the “Elements of Political Science,” wherein Mosca claimed that societies are ruled by a select minority which he called the political class, which means that every society could be split between two social classes: the one that rules and the one which is ruled, in 1787 in this country, during the Constitutional debate period, the exact same sentiments were being expressed by those called “Anti-Federalists.”

    They termed the select minority the “natural aristocracy.”

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