Romans and the Decadence of the Empire 1847 - Thomas Couture
We can
learn much from women and their influences by looking at the decline of past
empires. During the 1st and 4th century CE, the Roman
Empire went through a decline marked by the loss of moral and ethical values as
well as the rise of the female influence. During these times, women took
eagerly to wealth and supports of beauty that they could now possess; cosmetics
became a necessity and caustic soap from Gaul were imported to turn grey hair
into auburn. Women were free to control their dowries and divorce their
husbands or poisoned them (Durant, 1944: 89-90). Price (2013) commented this history in his article When
the Romans Tried to save Marriage where
he writes, “by the end of the Republic Rome was not all that
different from the contemporary US. Men were loath to marry, all manner of
licentiousness prevailed, and the fertility rate was abysmally low.”
But Rome was not the only time or place that this has
happened; the great philosopher Aristotle wrote
in his book Politics regarding Sparta;
…for the lawgiver wishing
the whole city to be of strong character displays his intention clearly in
relation to the men, but in the case of the women has entirely neglected the
matter; for they live dissolutely in
respect of every sort of dissoluteness, and luxuriously. So that the inevitable
result is that in a state thus constituted wealth is held in honor, especially
if it is the case that the people are under the sway of their women…
…Hence this
characteristic existed among the Spartans, and in the time of their empire many
things were controlled by the women; yet what difference does it make whether
the women rule or the rulers are ruled by the women? The result is the same.
And although bravery is of service for none of the regular duties of life, but
if at all, in war, even in this respect the Spartans' women were most harmful;
and they showed this at the time of the Theban invasion, for they rendered no useful service,
as the women do in other states, while they caused more confusion than the
enemy…
What we see here are
historical accounts that suggest the fall of a civilization come about during
the time when women were in power and behaved in a licentious manner. And we
see this happening today with women and Feminism.
Women built the
Patriarchy, if there was such a thing. How? They rely on men either directly
through marriage, or by proxy through the government. The government is their
protector and provider, who uphold the traditional values of chivalry and
gallantry, encouraged by women. Women built this Patriarchy because it suited
for their survival; why not let men face the dangers of the world while women
simply sat comfortably and safely in their homes? This parasitical relationship
worked wonders until women saw that it restricted them from their pleasures.
We see this in ancient
Rome where Roman women successfully repealed the Oppian Law. The law prohibits
women from buying luxury items such as jewellery and expensive clothes hence
the women poured into the forum and convinced their male relatives to vote in
favour of the repeal. Marcus Porcius Cato laments at the behaviour of women (Bryan, 1906);
We, it seems, suffer them,
now, to interfere in the management of State affairs, and to thrust themselves
into the forum, into general assemblies, and into assemblies of election: for
what are they doing at this moment in your streets and lanes? What, but
arguing, some in support of the motion of tribunes; others contending for the
repeal of the law?
Will you give the reins
to their intractable nature, and then expect that themselves should set bounds
to their licentiousness, and without your interference? For they long not for
liberty, but for unbounded freedom in every particular. Suffer them
once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become
your superiors.
But, indeed, they only
object to any new law being made against them; they mean to
deprecate, not justice, but severity. Nay, their wish is that a law which
you have admitted, established by your suffrages, and found in the practise and
experience of so many years to be beneficial, should now be repealed; and
that by abolishing one law you should weaken all the rest.
Roman women, having
seen that the Patriarchy no longer suited them, sought to abolish it by using
their influence on their men and we see the same thing happening today; it is
called Feminism. All the modern laws that were constructed to protect and
provide women food, shelter and comfort are now seen as obstacles to their
desires and they now seek to abolish it through Feminism. Feminism was not born
from Marxism or from lesbians; Feminism is inherent female nature and they
continue sway back and forth from Feminism and Patriarchy until civilization
declines and falls.
This illustrates the relationship between White Knights,
Manginae and the women who use them. Traditionalism that was built by women, instituted
as the government to protect and provide for them, is deemed as Patriarchy and
oppressive. Feminism which is women’s own perverse nature politicized,
permeating with misandry and gynocentrism, that forced accountability and
obligation on them, is now deemed as evil and wrong. And the White Knights and
the Manginae, who dutifully serve women’s desires and are slaves to women’s
desires, too stupid to see that they are enabling women’s licentiousness, are
causing society’s great decline once again.
Everything that women did, their influence only
served them and it always brought ruin; that is why we do not want to serve
women’s desires and we do not want to be slaves to women’s desires.
We see that Traditionalism and White Knighting that is
encouraged by women and enforced by the government is what gave rise to the
perceived ‘patriarchy’ hence we need to reject and abandon traditional values
that confined us in gender roles that made fools and tools of men. And we also
see that blindly following and adhering to Feminists beliefs, disseminated via
the feminized education system that promote non-cognitive learning, upheld and
perpetuated by misandric feminist educators, consequently brought about the
decline in critical and rational thinking so crucial to the prosperity and
progress of humankind.
We know that Sparta fell not only because Spartan women
were depraved but the men were stupid and let their wives run rampant with
their debauchery. We also see parallels of this in Rome and in our modern day
society, that when men lose their critical and rational thinking and permitted
the women to indulge in their decadence, civilization with see a decline and
fall. But a greater lesson here is that as Men Going Their Own Way, we do not
want to end up like the Feminist Movement i.e. we do not want our hate and
anger consume us to the extent that we become misogynist and sexist that will
lead to oppression where we become as depraved and as degenerate as women.
We must let go of the hate or we suffer becoming
the likes of the Feminist Movement.
We do not hate women; we are angry that they refuse to
change and we are most of all disappointed. We are disappointed that women have
not evolved into more than just animal with based desires. While men continue
to push forward, we are constantly held and pulled back by women who want
nothing more than to wallow in their own depravity, and their hate towards us
men. We point this out so that others do not follow women’s example; so that we
Men Going Their Own Way do not become like them.
We must let go of our hatred and anger, we must cast away
that proud submission and dignified obedience, we must return to
cognitive-based learning and above all, we must rise from our based instincts
and instead, desire and aspire to the critical and rational being that made us
so evolved a species, so advanced a civilization that we have ventured outside the
planetary atmosphere and touched our closest celestial body. This achievement
was not born out of hate but from cautious optimism driven by noble ambition to
be much more than what we are now.
We can be those things again.
Reference:
Aristotle (n.d.) Politics
[online] not dated available at Perseus Online Library http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0086,035:2:1269b
[accessed Mar 26, 2014]
Bryan, WJ (1906) In
Support of Oppian Law: Cato the Censor. The World’s Famous Oration, 1906
[online] available at Bartleby’s http://www.bartleby.com/268/2/3.html
[accessed Apr 2, 2014]
Durant, W (1944) Caesar
and Christ. The Story of Civilization, vol 3, Simon and Schuster, New York,
1980 pp. 89 - 90
Price, WF (2013) When the Romans tried to
save marriage. [online] Feb 24, 2013 available at The Spearhead http://www.the-spearhead.com/2013/02/24/when-the-romans-tried-to-save-marriage/ [accessed Mar 26, 2014]
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