is a term often used to designate comfort. Curiously, increasing "Quality of Life" often decreases the Quality of Life. Because, if organisms do not interact with the world in a significant manner, they degenerate. They do not develop talents and abilities. The people who do not work hard, the cultural producers, team up with barbarians in order to preserve their free time. As Haywood Says: great brutality is required to retain cultural production. The ruling class uses the trifecta of individualism, collectivism, and technology to rule the world and disconnect people from the land. Individualism is the most insidious of all, because they use it as a pretense to make the collective bigger. They say "Look! If you conquer that nation, I will reward you with money and gifts!" And all the while, the collective becomes shorter-term and lower quality. One great big mass. In Civilization, it is always those at the top who enjoy the most comfort. This is how we began: kings lived richly, as a reward for their proficiency in violence. Those who endure the most strife enjoy the most benefits when they are resting. This is consistent with the negroid lifestyle. For the negroid, violence is sufficient for obtaining food. The man who retains his territory is the man who is rich. For Western man, this may be true, but the lands are less plentiful. This means that new archetypes must form: instead of hunter and gatherer, we begin to see herder and farmer. This domestication of the Earth and the Beast is the beginning of Civilization. It is the introduction of consistency, predictability, and delayed gratification. The motions of a herder snd farmer are less explosive and free than the motions of a hunter and gatherer. By creating a herd or a farm, man is narrowing his focus to a specific pocket of reality. This is the notion of property z The largest is delayed gratification. Both of these disciplines require more thought and patience than hunting or gathering. However, they are very helpful when food is scarce. They allow man to be more stationary. This is consummate with a winter weather, in which man would rather stay with a fire than run around outside. There are exceptions, but for Western man this is the case. Even for nomadic man in the cold climate, he still must determine how to survive. He still must make clothes and shelter to protect him. This ability to control territory gave rise to an ability to accumulate resources. That is the birth of our society. Over time, resources became more plentiful. Industrialization accelerated this. The newfound offering of material wealth to peasants displaced the landed aristocracy. Suddenly, men who did not receive their credentials from war or the land became powerful. Our current decline, which began in the Enlightenment, is a phenomenon in which the peasants use kings as an excuse to gorge themselves. They use immoral kings as an excuse to abandon morality. The result of this is that the civilization becomes weaker and weaker. Because all the people become weaker.