Left wondering

The reason I haven't written much this week is down to fact I am beginning to wonder where the hell we are meant to turn. The news has been full of such tales of corruption and subtle covert means of sneaking laws past I really wonder if the only way the free world can recover is by a total social collapse like Rome.

The roman empire set out to be the perfect state of democracy, however over the years greed, debauchery and down right corruption worked into the system so fundamentally the whole system collapsed, hence the saying that the last emperor Nero played the violin as Rome burned. Granted a bit dramatic but that's how far the system destroyed itself.

I am currently reading my roman history, as it is one of my weaker points, and all I can see is straight comparisons to how we are living at the moment. The roan empire stretched throughout Europe all the way to England in the east and into parts of north Africa and touching the middle east in Israel and so on. They never got Scotland hence we live with Hadrian's wall as a reminder. What happened after their collapse is very apparent, especially here in the UK. The Romans dragged us kicking and screaming into the modern world with straight Roads, bathing Houses, salt as a preserve and so on. But as soon as they left we slipped back for a long time like hundreds of years till the Tudors picked up some of their knowledge and worked it.

The reason I say this is I think we are truly heading for this kind of collapse and backwards step in our social identity.  Bare in mind Romans had engineering in their coliseums we Base our modern stages, yet for 500 years we forgot about it. So it was a big backwards step as far as social revolution is concerned and we could be facing that again. Things like the Internet etc are common place at the moment, but imagine it being down graded to country limited or transport being such a luxury that holidays are unaffordable? Scary but it is quite possible we are heading for a big jump backwards.

It has happened multiple times in history and is long over due after the big leap forward of the industrial revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries. If you think about it in less than 100 years we went from walking to bikes/trains then to cars and flight then to space. It's a hell of a leap. Yet i'll give you another frightening stat, since the year I was born 1972 man has not returned to the moon. That's 40+ years. The development has slowed considerably and soon will stop. And like every other time this happened our political status is troubled to say the least or as I feel at the moment we are totally screwed.

What really fills me with fear us the fact that a good 75% of us would seriously struggle with out electricity or gas. Most people would last oh a few months or even up to a year. But if the infrastructure we are so used to collapses, money becomes worthless, shops irrelevant as no stock what the hell would most of us do. How many families can cook on open fire or knit sew and darn? How many can grow crops to last the year and preserve food with out a freezer? Sure that's worse case scenario but it is worth remembering we forgot about plumbing and sewers for 300 years after the Romans left.

It would only take a sonic weapon or husky fit from a strategic country or two and we will be facing that future. Time for us all to wise up and start looking out for us the little people as it's obvious no one else will.