Decentralizing vs Centralizing Forces and the Problem of Efficiency
Throughout the calf path of history, there is always an embattling between centralizing and decentralizing forces. When a political entity has grown too large, as within it it has barriers of expansion, it must quickly realize it cannot fulfill certain promises and plans of exponential good times. This is where your infighting begins, and those with a certain way of words in the right place at the right time will be able to take a slice of the empire as there arises a question of imperial legitimacy, and from it, a vacuum of power.
The natural conclusion big political systems inevitably take is one of multiculturalism and celebrating the decadence of its people, regardless of its real riches. In order to keep its nation a nation, it is obliged to set up a vague, aimless political strategy that keeps its most rowdy of its polity at bay. This is why every empire has to develop welfare systems and built-in systematic distractions, which it utilizes through constantly having an enemy to blame any of its key issues. If there is no enemy, then there are no friends, and the decentralizing forces start to embattle the centralizing ones.
Obviously, there will always be issues in an imperfect world. Even in so-called good times (decadence) there are still problems that must be addressed, even if they’re “good problems.” However, when the good times have most certainly passed, and generations of decadence must face real challenges, the infighting is inevitable. Throughout history, different leaders have had varying levels of success dealing with these tumults.
What we have seen, however, in modern times, is the decadence reach its full capacity, in a global trade system where maximum levels of convenience, efficiency, and consumption have been met in sacrifice of culture, spirituality, autarky, national self-confidence and integrity. This is where capitalism, regardless of how regulated or unregulated it becomes, resources being freely traded to achieve such a level of high consumption has created a very fragile, interwoven web of economies where no self-reliance can be had, and the cutaway from exponentially-increasing GDP numbers post-2008 has left most nations in the nuclear fallout of broken dreams and national visions.
So the mummified corpse of vague freedom and multiculturalism carries on; the state utilizes decadence and desire-related addiction and autonomy as a great pillar of how truly civilized and ahead-of-the-times we are. With vague, unrealistic dreams of maintaining the same level of consumption, but in a pod-living, bug-eating future of solar farms and turbine tributaries, the aging technocrats of once-prosperous nations are tasked with maintaining the vigor of consooming, while maintaining distractions and enemies that keep any decentralizing forces that would vindicate the superiority of autarky and self-determination at bay.
“The capitalist” as a communist might call such apparatchiks, in times of stagnation and collapse, are really just Professional Damage Control Artists (lol). Conflating power and money tends to be the communists’ biggest issue. They don’t quite understand the flow of money, but know that there is something inherently evil with where it ends up. This is where the centralized force of the modern capitalist bureaucratic manager-state has entered into what the ultimate ends capitalism becomes, and what modern blue-haired communists label “late stage capitalism.” This, I will humorously label, “Financial Incest” or if you prefer, the “Financial Feedback Loop of Capitalism.”
Thought Experiment - The Feedback Loop of Centralization
Say you have a hundred nations on a piece of land - all equally-sized, with equal productive capacities. However, the main difference between these nations’ abilities is how they run their government and economies. Some refuse to trade, some trade quite freely. Some run their society with an iron fist, some are made up of their own tribes or corporations that maintain free competition.
Regardless of how they are run, we can all understand that every little nation has its own systems within, that have different efficiencies and power apparatuses. However, regardless of how they are run, they will culminate in the more efficient system usurping, buying out, or conquering other systems that are less efficient.
Let’s say a company in Nationland becomes so strong and efficient, that is employs and takes care of everyone within its nation. Regardless of the system it operated de jure, or what the nation looked like before, this nation now is the de facto ruler within its borders. Now, let’s say a neighboring nation called Nationoria sucks and isn’t as efficient at building a powerful, productive system to bring the same level of productivity, consumption, and wealth that Nationland has developed, well, through some generous “Nationland’s Burden” or whatever it may be, Nationland comes in and helps this nation enjoy the benefits of Nationland’s system. Now, Nationoria, overtime, effectively becomes apart of Nationland. Whether it be in writing or not, the de facto state of power is in the hands of Nationland.
Overtime, Nationland will effectively rule over all other nations it can usefully reach, and due to it reaching its maximum size, whether due to its debt, foreign invaders/nations, infighting between all the cultures it has usurped, or a mix of all this and much, much more (which is how it usually happens), decentralizing forces will act on Nationland’s hegemony, and it will start having to face inevitable collapse or breaking up of its system.
How This Makes Capitalism Inevitably a Failure
This is the ultimate problem with capitalism, in all its forms, that has yet to be remedied, as it focuses utterly and only on efficiency and productivity, and nothing else. It cares not for power to be used at the expense of riches in preservation of culture, religion, haplogroup, spirit, or language. It operates solely on adopting whatever skin it must wear so that it can further dig its tendrils as far as it can go until it can go no more.
Such is the situation with the GAE (Global American Empire), as our apparatus of power was solely spread by the monomaniacal motive of expanding freedom and democracy (AKA death, vinereal disease, and the spirit of the antichrist) to every corner of the world. Capitalism, while it is not an ideology, or functions in any ideological sense, is simply the operandi for which poz could spread so well. It is a hyperfocus on consumption, and nothing else. When viewing the world in this mindset, where spirits are gone, and the only sense of right and wrong is a vague sense of bodily autonomy and wanting to enjoy every sinful desire under the sun, the inevitable end is one of utter destruction and decay, that not only has to happen, but is bound to happen.
This is the inevitable flaw with libertarians. This is the inevitable flaw with liberals. This is the inevitable flaw with conservatives. They all are engaging in a feedback loop of carving out a bigger leviathan for all groups to enjoy, which is inhuman and antispiritual. The entirety of the political machine in a democracy turns every living thing in its territory into a political animal, which is not what man, and especially woman, is bound for. They are spiritual creatures.
Ideology corrupts because it is the idealization of systems that are as fluid as water. There is no one great system, nor is there one system that doesn’t have some reminiscence to the enemy system it actively wants to destroy.
That being said, understanding the flow of money and resources doesn’t make someone a libertarian - it just makes them a good accountant. This is why, ironically, many of us on the NRx side are well-read in Austrian and Chicago Economics, even though all of us would not consider ourselves libertarians. We simply understand the pragmatism of power, and the forces of centralization and decentralization working against one another at all times. We are not idealists, although we can be equally as brooding.
In Conclusion
The system is not one of failure of ideology, but the failure of monomaniacal desire to expand towards reaching efficiency we can never achieve. This is why capitalism is bound to fail when it is treated as the central point for our society’s “successes.” When we celebrate higher GDP or wage growth, we are simply celebrating the ability for the machine to entrap more people in a life of spiritual anguish and higher capacity for material lust. Pride comes before a fall, and the latter half of the 20th century is a prime example of that.
When we inevitably manufacture better societies, one thing must be kept in mind: Community is number one. Everything is tangential from this, and it is why America could organically grow into something great before we took materialism to a whole new level post-WWII. There are aspects to an empire’s rise that are admirable, and a society must be well-aware of its power levels before it is destroyed, or before it does more harm than it intends.
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
Teddy Roosevelt