Let America Sink

My Seething Mind ^ | 11/11/12 | Moi

[A_perfect_lady]

Ten years ago, a white man from South Africa, one Kim du Toit, wrote an essay titled “Let Africa Sink.” It’s rather famous in the blogosphere in a sort of underground way. His thesis was essentially, we (Western Civilization) cannot save Africa. Life is cheap there. The mortality rate is a result of a perfect storm of natural disaster, human savagery, and unwitting complicity by Europeans that worsens the situation every time they try to help.

As a result, death is treated more casually by Africans than by Westerners. I, and I suspect most Africans, am completely inured to reports of African suffering, for whatever cause. Drought causes crops to fail, thousands face starvation? Yup, that happened many times while I was growing up. Inter-tribal rivalry and warfare causes wholesale slaughter? Yep, been happening there for millennia, long before Whitey got there. Governments becoming rich and corrupt while their populations starved? Not more than nine or ten of those. In my lifetime, the following tragedies have occurred, causing untold millions of deaths: famine in Biafra, genocide in Rwanda, civil war in Angola, floods in South Africa, famine in Somalia, civil war in Sudan, famine in Ethiopia, floods in Mozambique, wholesale slaughter in Uganda, and tribal warfare in every single country. There are others, but you get the point.

Of course, du Toit knows that the Western instinct is to try to overcome this hideous situation. Fight! Beat back the tide, conquer the savagery… we of all people should be able to do it. Give it up, du Toit advises:

1. Charity is no answer. Money simply gets appropriated by the first, or second, or third person to touch it (17 countries saw a decline in real per capita GNP between 1970 and 1999, despite receiving well over $100 billion in World Bank assistance).

2. Food isn't distributed. This happens either because there is no transportation infrastructure (bad), or the local leader deliberately withholds the supplies to starve people into submission (worse).

3. Materiel is broken, stolen or sold off for a fraction of its worth. The result of decades of "foreign aid" has resulted in a continental infrastructure which, if one excludes South Africa, couldn't support Pittsburgh.

His ultimate advice is to step back and let nature take its course.

So that is the only one response, and it's a brutal one: accept that we are powerless to change Africa, and leave them to sink or swim, by themselves. It sounds dreadful to say it, but if the entire African continent dissolves into a seething maelstrom of disease, famine and brutality, that's just too damn bad. We have better things to do--sometimes, you just have to say, "Can't do anything about it." The viciousness, the cruelty, the corruption, the duplicity, the savagery, and the incompetence is endemic to the entire continent, and is so much of an anathema to any right-thinking person that the civilized imagination simply stalls when faced with its ubiquity, and with the enormity of trying to fix it.

Now, looking at this last paragraph, let’s take a look at America, 2012. We are, of course, not Africa. We are better off. But if you consider the attitude of liberals (and the likelihood that massive voter fraud played at least a bit part in some areas) you might nod a little to yourself if someone suggests that liberals fit some of the same descriptions du Toit used above.

I write this specifically in response to the chorus of voices now crying out in this, our conservative night, “What do we have to do to win again?” Do we “reach out” to women, minorities, gays, etc, by abandoning social issues? Do we give in on immigration to “win over” the Hispanic vote? How can we triumph? How can we attain victory (which is what we now call it when another RINO shows up to slow us down slightly as we drive toward the edge of the cliff.)

Has it occurred to anyone that winning might not be the appropriate goal? Let’s face it: what would winning mean now? Most of America has driven willingly over that cliff. They no longer have any interest in becoming self-sufficient and independent. Individualism has been given a bad name. Whether you believe in God or Ayn Rand, you have to admit: they both predicted this would come to pass.

If you’re a Christian, remember that this world is temporary. If you’re secular, remember that America was a wonderful moment in time, but it may be that a gulch somewhere, or a state that withdraws from the Union, may be the next vehicle to show what humans are capable of if they model high expectations rather than low.

It may be, and this is just a thought, that the appropriate answer (for now) is Let America Sink. Let the prices for basic goods and services get higher and higher. Let the producers stop producing, let the Christians stop conforming. Let the quality of life sink until the average liberal considers himself lucky to have a one room apartment in some concrete jungle with free birth control and a plethora of electronic toys to lose his mind in… one big college dorm replete with large screen TVs and a Logan’s Run like Circuit for quick sexual encounters. Let The Matrix be… for now. Let it all settle. America was established by the philosophical efforts of a handful of men. It may be that its time has come and gone. It is now merely the area between Canada and Mexico, populated mostly by people indistinguishable from Canadians and Mexicans. These are the people whose minds you want to free, as Morpheus said, but many do not want to be freed. Whether we call it Galt’s Gulch, Zion, or Texas, we might have to consider the possibility that America is no longer salvageable.

[Travis McGee]

We're going to hit a major inflection point when the dollar tanks and the EBT cards all flash ERROR.

(When, not if.)

It might even change the moocher-looter-producer ratio.

[Travis McGee]

RRR. Reality resets the ratios.
Moochers can only outnumber producers for so long.
Lemmings eventually run out of food, always.

[CodeToad]

“Moochers can only outnumber producers for so long.”

Polidiots know that, too, they just want to get in and stay long enough to get rich off the system.

I always called it the “3/5 Plan”, which many executives have had: A five year plan, doomed to fail, but they are out in 3 as a hero that got the plan working and everyone thinks they are awesome executives. However, at 5 years it all goes bust those on the 3 year plan are long gone.

[PoloSec]

I can’t believe all these posts, this foolishness of letting the communists have there way.

You can not say you are conservative and think this way. It is our duty to defend the Constitution, our freedom, our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

To conserve our Constitution...Surrender Is Not A Strategy!

I am ashamed of conservatives who agree with this crap.

[CodeToad]

“Surrender Is Not A Strategy!”

Think of it as a “Strategic Reorganization”. Another poster put it this way: When you go too slow and get unbalanced on a motorcycle the bike is going down, your efforts be damned. So, let it go down in a controlled fall then pick it back up and get going again.

Until we unload these freeloaders, you cannot beat Santa Clause giving away free money. The Democrat party is the party of freebies, Santa Clause style. There is no defeating that. Until this system crashes and we pick it back up, albeit with new rules against stealing from taxpayers to give to party voters, you will not change a thing. Delay it, maybe, but the crash is guaranteed. Learn to fall in a controlled manner and don’t let it force you to the ground.

[DuncanWaring]

Whether you believe in God or Ayn Rand, you have to admit: they both predicted this would come to pass.

So did Rudyard Kipling:

...

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

[A_perfect_lady]

Oh, that’s awesome! I’ve always loved “If” but I never knew of this one. Thanks!

[DuncanWaring]

That’s only 30% of it.

The whole thing is here:

http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_copybook.htm

Kipling foretold the next century from the vantage point of the year after the end of The Great War.

[A_perfect_lady]

Oh, believe me, I went and googled it immediately. Now I’m trying to figure out exactly what he means by the phrase “Gods of the Copybook Headings.” Does he mean basic common sense we learned as children?

[A_perfect_lady]

Okay, yep, that’s what he meant. Well, he called it.

[David Isaac]

It is good to see that not all “conservatives” are going to take a licking and keep on... licking. We have witnessed what I consider to be our first national third-world election (there have been numerous state and local examples).