Posted on 01/01/2006 2:52:39 PM PST by twntaipan
ping to read later
Do not try to read this article with a hangover! LOL
Or a laptotp as I was :)
Every time I try to read this I start to fall asleep. I sure he has great pointszzzzzzz, wait, thatwasgreatzzzzzzzzzz.
Bumped to read more in depth later....
This is longer and less amusing than the typical Steyn article. But it's a wake-up call on the most serious issue confronting the west today. Namely, the fact that most of the civilized world as we know it--Europe, Japan, Russia--are going to die unless they act much more decisively than they are likely too within the next ten or fifteen years.
Steyn does his best not to preach to the choir but to try to wake up the sleep-walkers who are taking Western civilization to its death, while they worry about trivial issues instead of confronting the real problem.
I'm sending this one out to my list, not that most of them will probably make the necessary effort to understand it.
THIS is what the war is all about. And Steyn is right: we're losing.
Sounds like we need marriages that last and bigger families. Sounds like we need to TRY to educate our population to read, write, spell and pass a drug test. :o) But, then, all that requires self-sacrifice, cooperation, chemical independence and dumping the me-me-me, victimhood, government-nannyism, return to the old fashioned ethic of, in this order, education, job, marriage, children.
European countries HAVE been financially bribing their population to produce children and more that 1-2 children for 25 years, at least.
They HAVE BEEN accepting non-European immigrants. The consequences will occur and they will never be acceptable to either side, especially when our media take over and disseminate the pros and cons, blaming countries with their standard onslaught of any European country's past.
Each European country WILL handle their future as best they can. THAT also will fail the U.S. smell test because....just because of our anti-Euro-attitude.
The Muslim countries, especially the Arab countries, will always be wrong. That's a given.
The "others" (I name India, China....since they have a combined population of 2.3 billion, 1/3 of the world.) will struggle along, emerging with "fresh, hopeful and new" with accompanying news stories, movies and books portraying the equally vivid squalor and corruption. Nothing new there either.
NOTHING will change in the future. Human nature will be IDENTICAL as it is today and was 60,000 years ago. We are merely healthier, live longer, better educated and have high tech stuff. We aren't ONE iota smarter, wiser, nicer, better or happier.
Things will be re-arranged, as the author writes. That is the no-brainer prediction of all times. He's saying that the sun will shine and the snow will fall.
America can survive but it has to move MORE towards what we used to be. For too many that won't be possible. We CAN do it. Who knows if we will. I think we will.
One thing for sure: our media won't like it, think it's good enough or accept that anything we achieve is good.
I think we are the BEST. Whatever we are doing is making us the BEST. Author is wrong, mostly, but not completely.
Sounds like we need marriages that last and bigger families. Sounds like we need to TRY to educate our population to read, write, spell and pass a drug test. :o) But, then, all that requires self-sacrifice, cooperation, chemical independence and dumping the me-me-me, victimhood, government-nannyism, return to the old fashioned ethic of, in this order, education, job, marriage, children.
European countries HAVE been financially bribing their population to produce children and more that 1-2 children for 25 years, at least.
They HAVE BEEN accepting non-European immigrants. The consequences will occur and they will never be acceptable to either side, especially when our media take over and disseminate the pros and cons, blaming countries with their standard onslaught of any European country's past.
Each European country WILL handle their future as best they can. THAT also will fail the U.S. smell test because....just because of our anti-Euro-attitude.
The Muslim countries, especially the Arab countries, will always be wrong. That's a given.
The "others" (I name India, China....since they have a combined population of 2.3 billion, 1/3 of the world.) will struggle along, emerging with "fresh, hopeful and new" with accompanying news stories, movies and books portraying the equally vivid squalor and corruption. Nothing new there either.
NOTHING will change in the future. Human nature will be IDENTICAL as it is today and was 60,000 years ago. We are merely healthier, live longer, better educated and have high tech stuff. We aren't ONE iota smarter, wiser, nicer, better or happier.
Things will be re-arranged, as the author writes. That is the no-brainer prediction of all times. He's saying that the sun will shine and the snow will fall.
America can survive but it has to move MORE towards what we used to be. For too many that won't be possible. We CAN do it. Who knows if we will. I think we will.
One thing for sure: our media won't like it, think it's good enough or accept that anything we achieve is good.
I think we are the BEST. Whatever we are doing is making us the BEST. Author is wrong, mostly, but not completely.
Bump!
"But, if one part of your population believes in liberal pluralist democracy and the other doesn’t, then it becomes a matter of great importance whether the part that does is 9 percent of the population or only 60, 50, 45 percent."
For 9 read 90.
Look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp.
SORRY for the double post. I'm in Waikiki at an Internet Cafe and I haven't got the rhythm down yet.
Of course once Muslims become the voting majority in EU countries, why should they want to pay taxes to support Dhimmies? Shouldn't that be the other way around? Isn't it customary for Dhimmies to pay taxes to ensure their right to live?
This guy knows how to write. He must be the time-warped love child of Ann Coulter and Victor Davis Hansen ;-)
Cheers!
...oh, and Happy New Year!
The dominance of oil money in the world economy, and the abundance of oil in the Middle East and Southern Russia is creating a massive bias, for over a half century now, pulling money and power from Western Civilization, dominated by former British colonies, to Islam.
Behind the successful blocking of oil drilling and refining expansion in the West are no doubt the powers built on the oil money going to Russia and the Middle East. They obviously don't want the competition.
Money funds babies. Babies drive demographics. Big aggressive civilizations over run shrinking decadent civilizations.
Damn ... just damn.
Just as I will grow old and die, so will the freedom loving culture that has served humanity so well these last couple centuries.
One can only extend the years of relative health, and delay the burial.
This was one of his most serious, most important articles. Reread it when you're not hung over.
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