Tag: charlemagne

Here’s a picture of Charlemagne, fighting Saracens. That’s what they did back in his day, instead of inviting them to move in and go on welfare and rape and murder. The reign of Charlemagne is frequently considered to be the beginning of Western Civilization, though some would argue that it goes back further. But it certainly had begun by his time, and just as certainly, it’s ending now. In order for a civilization to survive, it has to reproduce its numbers. It’s population has to be maintained. And not by alien immigrants, either. You can’t keep a herd of horses going by letting deer and jackrabbits join it. The horses have to make little horses. Whatever effectuates reproduction, then, …