This is going to rile a lot of people.
‘Aryan’ is what we consider to be the finest of European thought and culture. There is no such race as the Aryans, as there is no evidence for ‘race’ in human DNA.
By the end of Aryan civilisation, I am talking about the end of this brief period in human history where the West has basically run the world, and has made most other cultures and civilisations idealise the West as their model for growth.
The rise of the Indo European languages, of democracy, of modern economic theory. of globalisation and of consumerism has taken us on the whole, away from the way our ancestors have lived for tens of thousands of years. We have forgotten about the very important concept of balance, that is the foundation of all ancient religions, including the ancient religions of Europe. We have forgotten to keep ourselves in a state of harmony with the planet and with each other, and we are bringing upon ourselves the destructive madness that we see playing out every day. Some call this destructive madness the manifestation of Nature’s or God’s wrath.
Let’s recap where we are going wrong.
Democracy is not the halfway house to Utopia as Brodsky believes. It is an ingenious tool to make the masses believe that they are in control of their lives. Governments do not govern in the best interest of the people, even the ‘best’ governments care about themselves first and the people second. The best form of government has always been and will always be a benevolent monarchy, and there is no better example than that of pre-dynastic Egypt, where the best warrior, in terms of courage and ability and intelligence, was crowned King for 8 years, and then killed, to be replaced with the next candidate. Today we choose leaders based on their oratorical ability and the depth of their pockets, either in cash or bullets.
Globalisation is what happened when early humans spread far and wide tens of thousands of years ago, propagating our species to all the corners of the planet. It is not this unsustainable experiment we are conducting now to break down barriers on paper. This is mass consumerism, forced on people, on a global scale.
Fiat currencies are the raison d’etre for the rise in prices of commodities, and the concomitant inflationary cycle we are stuck in. Things are not becoming more expensive…it is “money’ that is losing its value. That is because we have substituted Gold and Silver with coloured bits of paper which basically have no scarcity built into them
The Greeks and Romans are not the epitome of civilisation, they are mere shadows of the great civilisations that preceded them, the Etruscans and the Celts and the Macedonians and the Minoans and so many more. But today we choose to ignore the bulk of our collective history and divide thought on that line that we call Socrates. We have discarded Dionysus for Apollo, and now we have no idea of what either stand for. We have bought into the lie that truth is beauty and vice-versa.
We have all become specialists, and have forgotten to keep the generalists, that can see the whole, in our midst. We have dumbed ourselves down to MTV and text messages. We are evolving to become the forgettable.
It is time for the ancient ways to return. To self sufficiency in city states. To seeing God in nature as opposed to religion and heaven for the right price as it is practised today. To the individual and not the label.It is time for Atlantis to return.
Few will understand this, and I used to think that pitiful, but now I consider it unremarkable.
