Vinland Saga is fully out in blu-ray, unlike Kimetsu no Yaiba which is still missing the final few eps, so I was able to rewatch it in full. It's about as good as I remember. I think it's very gorgeous to look at, and the characters' motivations are so understandable that it all feels very real. Unfortunately, how much can really be said about such a barbaric age? It's sort of like 'Feminism in Florence.' It's easy to learn lessons from Vinland Saga, like, wholesale massacres are bad, slavery is bad, rape is bad -- but does anyone these days even need to be told these things? It's not exactly a hot topic for debate these days whether we should invade England with longships or not.
It's sort of a story without a purpose, searching for relevance. As an answer to the question posed in the story, 'what is a true warrior?' The answer the author is clearly steering us towards is that a true warrior is someone who overcomes life's obstacles and finds happiness and success on the other side. Like Thors, who built a prosperous business and a loving family. The fight isn't with other people, it's with adversity itself, and the victory isn't over other people, but once adversity is defeated and the enjoyment of life's bounty begins.
It's sort of melancholy how simple such an ideal that is. Ideally, everyone would be fighting unhappiness and their victory would be happiness. The victorious warriors would be the happy, prosperous families enjoying their fruits of victory. But that can never be so long as humanity is in the grip of an existential threat. Individual success is meaningless if the entire collective is brought down together. Only collective effort can overcome collective menaces. And the only way to form a collective is to corral other people, which will inevitably result in conflict with other people again.
Humanity right now faces several existential threats -- we're closer to dying out as a whole than any other time in the history of mankind. Let's just grant global warming is true -- well then that's one existential threat. But it's just one of many. African birthrates are the obvious biggest problem. Then there's the spread of the insanely militant and backwards religion of Islam. The threat of nuclear annihilation if conflict with China or Russia heats up. Dysgenics leading to technological civilization collapsing in on itself as people lose the intelligence necessary to maintain it. Low fertility among the civilized races in general, leading to the emptying out of nations at a rate faster than the black plague, with no end in sight.
A sense of nihilism leading to drug use, non-reproductive sex, and suicide, as people flounder for the lack of moral guidance and religion. We were losing over 100k people a year to this issue before coronavirus with its measly 37k deaths took over all the headlines.
Liberal women under the age of 30 are self-reporting that 56% of them have been diagnosed with a mental illness by a licensed doctor. This is insane. (forgive the pun.) Literally half the breeding population is unfit for life. What will their children be like? What hope a future when it's based on such a dysgenic base?
3/4 of Americans are overweight and nearly half are obese. This is an existential crisis because fat women aren't attractive enough to bother reproducing with, never mind the health and infertility consequences -- so where will the next generation come from? Every year the obesity numbers creep up and the prospects for happy coupling creeps down.
Nearly half of America's children have no fathers. As this trend continues, what are the chances these kids will grow up healthily and form healthy families of their own?
There are so many other problems no one ever talks about, too. For instance, as people become ever more trusting of an ever more dishonest media, how will things like freedom, the economy, democracy or justice survive? We have a whole host of Democrats who seconds ago with Kavanaugh said we must believe all women and that women never lie about sexual assault now saying that we must believe Biden and Tara Read is clearly lying. And yet the American public swallows this without protest, because the press tells them to. At such a level of slavish irrationality, can anything survive?
What about phosphate depletion? Topsoil depletion? Deforestation? Aquifer depletion? What happens when the world runs out of food and water?
Most of these crises all stem from the same source -- affluence leading to overpopulation. In the past all these defective people and ideas would have been culled by nature, through famine, war or pestilence. Now they all stick around and multiply -- until they overwhelm all coping mechanisms and devour us all. Affluence cannot keep up with these ever multiplying nitwits. Eventually the curves will cross, and when they do, hell awaits us all.
It won't matter at that point whether you're a 'true warrior' who carved through life's difficulties and earned your own personal happiness. It won't matter if you got a nice job and impressed a devoted wife into being the mother of your cherubic children. It won't matter if you have the respect of your colleagues or are a faithful adherent to a loving God. No matter what you individually did, when the collective collapses the roof falls on your head too.
Because nothing is being done to shore up the roof, to keep the walls standing that protect us all, our collective security and prosperity, every individual is just as doomed as every other.
When the mentally ill retarded obese billions riot, demanding resources we no longer have, who will save your individual happiness? Who will protect you from the zombie horde? It most certainly won't be the army -- by the time this happens the army will be manned by exactly the vermin I'm talking about. Only by nipping the problem in the bud and preventing the zombie billions from infesting your country in the first place can you possibly protect your future. But instead of putting into place eugenic breeding policies and keeping out low IQ immigrants, we continue to heap fuel on our own funeral pyres at a record pace -- now all the leading Democratic Presidential candidates have endorsed completely open borders with zero immigration enforcement. How long before a Democrat wins and this policy is enacted purely by executive order, by fiat, like Obama did with DACA? And how long after that will America even exist? Can anyone imagine the coming flood of numbers from all the shittiest corners of the Earth, all invited by our dear leader senile 80 year old Biden?
No, a true warrior isn't someone who conquers adversity and carves out a good life -- a true warrior is someone who protects his people. Until we heroic types understand that and do our duty, the world will continue to fall into ruin. Only we, the thinkers, the disciplined, the fit, the sane, have the power to protect the wellsprings of security and prosperity. And it is only when we stop dicking around with personal happiness projects and start seriously trying to help others that any of these trends can be reversed. Only fascism has an impact on our fate as a collective. And only people willing to impose fascism can save the world.
I agree the Danes who invaded England simply because it was warmer and there were women and plunder to be had weren't true warriors. They were brigands and their violence was unjustified. But Vinland Saga's counsel of pacifism isn't the answer either. The real answer is the Romans -- invade England, but once you've conquered it, rule it well, such that it becomes a better place afterwards. We need to be re-conquering our own countries and ruling them well with iron fists. The alternative is every trend I just listed growing exponentially and blowing up in our faces irretrievably.
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