What to Do When Caesar Comes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Well, the title explains what it's about, doesn't it?
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"Is a Caesar, an authoritarian reconstructor of our institutions, soon to step onto the American stage? A betting man would say yes. The debilities of our society are manifold and will inevitably result in fracture and chaos. History tells us that such times call forth ambitious and driven men, who in the West usually aspire to reconstruction and dynasty, not mere extraction, what is usually featured in primitive societies. As Napoleon said of his accession to Emperor, “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.” In human events, past performance is always a key predictor of future results. But neither you nor I is going to be Caesar, so this truth raises the crucial question for us-what to do when Caesar comes?" . . .
“Bronze Age Pervert and Adrian Vermule will be made to get along.” Whether any of this unfolds as you predict, or not, I adore your content Charles.
Had to look up Vermeule.
"no final question can be solved without conflict, usually involving violence" I really liked this one in your bio
Welcome to humanity
We only behave when we know the strong leader will punished for extra-lawful activity
More episodes like this would be good, if possible.
You can check out "On the Future Ascent of a Caesar"!
THE COMING CAESARS by Amaury De Reincourt (1952) was an interesting read that first introduced me to the idea of Caesar's return.
I enjoy your takes
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We assist and aid him in every possible way! ⚔️
This needs to be repeated every 6 months
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Excellent
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it didn't turn out well for the original Caesar...
On guns, my expectation is that a Caesar would need to find a way to generally prohibit arms ownership by the left and underclasses, while affirming if not expanding RKBA for the right (normal citizens of good character). Needs to tread carefully around one of the shibboleths of his primary support bases - the *one* shibboleth that is likely to persist and even strengthen through collapse / fracture.
It's quite likely that American Caesar still exists under something that looks like a lot like the US constitution, a document that leaves plenty open to his interpretation, but also provides a mythos that can be adapted to a new regimes liking, probably with a few needed amendments.
One could easily interpret the bill of rights as applying only to citizens, and the president has quite wide latitude in determining who / what classes of people are in fact a citizen, should he ever choose to actually exercise that power.
@@p51mustang24 Yeah, both correct, I think. Guns for those politically reliable has a reasonable historical precedent.
He'll be President in name only
hey Charles, what do you think about Brazil?
Like DeGaulle, I think it is the country of the future, and always will be. Seriously, I don't know much about it, but of what I know, I am not overly impressed.
“…and always will be.” Like how controlled nuclear fusion is “only twenty years away!”-and has been, for the past seventy years.
@@CharlesHaywood Brazil is right now the only relevant country in the west that is resisting the leftist agenda. Every other country in latin america has elected extreme-left presidents. We are at least putting up a fight
@@levanderneninhas That's certainly heartening. My impression of Brazil is that it is too diverse--by which I don't mean something negative about its racial makeup, but simply that diversity is the opposite of strength, and that tends to limit the country's upward progress. But you're right--at this point, simply resisting globohomo is more important than progress, perhaps.
@@CharlesHaywood the thing is that Brazil is uniting and using the actual president to show it's strength. Next 7 of September will be 200 years since it's independence from Portugal and people will gather in probably the biggest show of support for a president in history. There's really something going on in the country's heart right now
Does this thinking owe anything to Spengler's Caesarism in "The Decline of the West"?
No, I haven't (yet) read Spengler.
More a point of curiosity, but you said you (or your viewers) will not be this neo-Caesarian figure, as if that was a certainty. How are we to know who it will be, which you address, so it may be you. So why not you Charles? Or is it more a personal choice, as in, you do not wish to be the one making those difficult decisions? Or is it rather you have some idea as to where this Caesar shall come from, and you are not there/from there. If so, where shall the eyes of the West turn to see this figure’s arrival?
Part of that is false modesty. As to me personally, I am getting older (turned 50), and being Caesar is a game for those on the younger side of middle age. More importantly, I doubt if I am ruthless enough; I fear judgment in the hereafter. But I might become more ruthless in some circumstances, and justify it to myself, whether accurately or not, I would find out.
Beyond that, it will likely be obvious. This figure will be the recipient of a preference cascade, both from the masses and from segments of the ruling class who peel off to join him. Not all of either group, of course, but winning builds on itself. Successful Caesars have to pass through various tests, and avoid bad luck or assassination, but if they can avoid it, their arc is pretty straightforward, and clearly up, and fast, as they reach the top. As Kipling said: "Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne / He travels fastest who travels alone."
@@CharlesHaywood Fair points, and it sounds like this figure will likely be a gen y or z given the timing you mention. Or a very young gen x?
The question is though, will this be a spontaneous event as with the following events, or is this something or someone that is built, and planned? Do you have any personal thoughts, won't ask for you to share, already for who it may be?
At any rate, really interesting topics, and glad to have found your channel.
@@akatosh2795 Yes, I think so. (I am old Gen X, so I am out, I guess!) No personal thoughts on who it might be. Almost certainly not any current politician, at least one who is a lawyer by training, which is debilitating for something like this. (Maybe Blake Masters, though.) Spontaneous following fracture; as the saying goes, cometh the hour, cometh the man.
@@CharlesHaywood Why do you believe a lawyer would be debilitated for such a role?
@@akatosh2795 By both self-selection and training, lawyers are focused on evaluating risks so that others can make informed decisions. They are risk averse. Caesar has to largely ignore risk and be extremely decisive, often on little information.
I need a wife first
The only alternative is Bosnia, collapse without leadership.
Some combination of 2001 Argentina, 90's Bosnia, and 1990 USSR collapse all in one. Rapid currency/economic decline, ethnic strife, and politcal collapse all in one. Let's gooooooo
Our hypothetical Caesar probably emerges during this, not before or (significantly) after.