Are you aware of the time you live in? Do you have any perception of the prevailing spirit of your age? According to Sir John Glubb - The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival there are six ages of Empires.
1) The age of Pioneers
2)The age of Conquest
3)The age of Commerce
4) The age of Affluence
5) The age of Intellect
6) The age of Decadence
In my time anyone can become an Emperor or King all you need do is create your Empire with an idea or platform and you may develop an arching pyramid hierarchy that leads back to you at the top. Influencer, Entrepreneur, Day-Trader, CEO, CTO, Bitcoin Millionaire, Shitcoin Flipper... the list goes on and on. What a great time to be alive so everyone can become Kings and Queens; is it safe to say that most people in your time are lovers of money? Yes actually it's a defining a characteristic of people of my time.
Decadence is caused by an Empire
1) Too long in a period of wealth and power
2) Selfishness
3) Love of Money
4) Loss of a Sense of Duty
Signs of the Age of Decadence
i) Defensiveness
ii) Pessimism
iii) Materialism
iv) Frivolity
v) An influx of Foreigners
vi) The Welfare State
vii) A Weaken Religion
"It was the best of times and the worst of times. "Many people were socially conditioned by social media platforms which enforced the norms of the state by their authoritative rule, suppression of freedom of speech and banning of ideologies that didn't conform to the status quo. Kings of my time were born on these platforms and as the rule of money was their ethos the little Kings and Queens conformed to the wishes of the Oligarch of their platform. People tried to acknowledge their loss of rights with other platforms that were for and by the people but the majority of the masses were not awake always checking the trending page and being content to be entertained rather then educated. What happened to the struggle of the few? They served the prevailing ethos only in another way with other Oligarchs.
In one of these Kingdoms a Geheime Staatspolizei was instituted for the sole purpose of the enforcement of the Terms of Services agreements that everyone had to subscribe to use the platform. How they abused their power... banning anyone deem not socially relevant to possess their adoration. Kings were deplatformed without any explanation; the sweet life that they had acquired for themselves had abruptly came to an end and the Oligarch of that platform showed everyone that even if the Gestpo liked you, you were not immune to the real ruler. Why did the people continue to use these platforms under these pretexts? There was a great plague over the land and suddenly breathing, coughing and interacting became unlawful so it was better that they spent their time behind their magic mirrors and SIMPed over the girl they liked the most. Many of these THOT-provoking ladies had existential crises of the meaninglessness of their lives and cried before their white knights. The whole Mushroom Kingdom gave rise to Doomers and meme culture where we laugh at someone's creativity meanwhile ignoring our own plight and gave way to sensuality and frivolity.
Salve, Salve, Salve, parve? Without the light there's less danger. Here we are now, entertain us. I feel stupid and contagious. Here we are now, entertain us. A barbarian, an albino, a mosquito, my libdo! What hymn is this? It was the anthem to a genre called grunge way before anyone had a inkling of the impeding calamity but alas how prophetic. Back to our tale... One Queen in the Mushroom Kingdom was so entitled and enamored with love of money she suggested that during this plague when everyone had lost their jobs and were stuck at home, watching her through their mirrors could afford the 5 denari to subscribe to her channel and if they were enjoying her content for free and couldn't afford the tax then they didn't have their priorities straight and should go out and earn this sum while no work was available. The HYPOCRISY, the INDIFFERENCE, ooohhhy did the mob want her head. But not too long after this event the United Shadow Council of the Kingdoms started minting 1200 denaris for everyone and the mob soon forgot the atrocities of the entitled Queen. Were the economics of your time different from the rest of human history? You are possible to referring to the myth that the government can't go bankrupt, no everyone knew that the government printing more money created inflation but that was tomorrow's problem not today's.
"The impression that the empire will always be rich causes the declining empire to spend lavishly on it's own benevolence, until such a time as the economy collapses, the universities are closed and the hospitals fall into ruin."
