Comments on: A Variety of Falls

By: The Fourth Doorman of the Apocalypse

The Fourth Doorman of the Apocalypse — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:35:41 +0000

Can we see in the behavior of our current elites their expectation that the end will not be long in coming?

This seems to relate to Mancur Olsen’s Stationary Bandits as well. Once they perceive that things are coming to an end it is in their interests to loot the hell out of the beast. To kill the goose that laid the golden eggs.

By: Rollory

Rollory — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:11:56 +0000

Chechar has written quite a lot about New Spain at his blog (chechar.wordpress.com). He has repeatedly made the point that New Spain, as a political entity, endured for nearly 300 years — comparable to the existence of the United States (and also very comparable to Glubb’s imperial period) yet anglocentric Americans have completely glossed over the lessons that might be learned from it.

By: Electric Angel

Electric Angel — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:27:37 +0000

I recall Spain holding on to most of Latin America until 1820 or so. In 1798, a man could travel from Tierra del Fuego up to Port Angeles, Washington, go east to the Mississippi River drainage, down to New Orleans, and over to Miami, and never set foot on territory not at least nominally under the control of the King of Spain. I wonder if the Tierra del Fuego to Port Angeles distance is more than Belarus to Vladivostok?