Posted on 08/20/2015 8:50:18 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
How Systems Get Tired
by Richard Fernandez
August 19, 2015 - 2:42 am
One of the arguments for the impossibility of an event is lack of previous failure. “It never failed before and thus can never fail ever”. The Washington Post’s editorial board invokes a variant of this logic to refute Donald Trump’s border policy, arguing there are so many illegal immigrants it is too expensive to deport them all, leaving no alternative but to accept more. Besides, America is still standing so what can be the harm in admitting more? The same argument is used to justify other policies. For example the Fed can continue to print trillions because it always has.
The contrary view is embodied in Stein’s Law, named after the economist Herbert Stein, who said ”if something cannot go on forever, it will stop”. Following Stein’s Law, neither unbridled illegal immigration nor money printing can continue indefinitely. Each of these projects has used up a margin and will eventually reach a point where something unprecedented — something which has never happened before — occurs
Social engineers are members of the first school of thought and are typically surprised by unprecedented events viewing them as perverse. For example the Washington Post notes the shock of rising and virulent xenophobia in Germany, something heretofore thought to be extinct since the end of the Second World War. ”Germany unnerved by scores of xenophobic attacks against refugees.” The past should continue indefinitely. Failure can be due only to wreckers.
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The Pharaohs surely thought their system would go on forever. The Soviets thought their system would go on forever.
Social engineering is not really a process of problem-solving, but a religious mission. Accepting limits is unacceptable.
The belief something will go on forever is linear thinking. But the world only appears linear on a small scale. When you go out a little further the linearity breaks down.
Maybe one side is unconcerned because they know the election is already stolen.
Looks good, save for later proper reading
Systems get tired. Systems get overloaded and collapse.
Our ability to.absorb more and more illegals is a good example. We can absorb only so many until support systems collapse and are not effective anymore.
The same can.apply to many formerly nice middle.class neighborhoods around the country which have gone ghetto. A community can only absorb so many section 8 resident and gang members before it collapses and goes ghetto.
I’m sure there are many other examples people.could cite.
Turn off the magnet, close the border and it won’t cost a dime to get rid of illegals...they’ll leave. It didn’t cost a dime to import them did it?
Excellent article. One can make the case for immigration in Europe. You initially get some cute ethnic shops and restaurants...then some friction, but it goes away once you hand over some money...then you get civil war (coming soon).
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I shall read it but it’s a little early so I’ll BFLR.
Arrest, charge, and jail the employers. Much easier than trying to round up tens of millions of people with nothing to lose.
“We can’t deport 10 million Mexicans”.
“Why not? Mexico did”.
We don’t have to deport them. Cut off all aid, medical and employment opportunities (by having mandatory prison time for employers hiring illegals and termination of federal funds to state agencies) and they will queue up at the border like it was a free taco buffet.
Except that isn't really true. There is very little violence against "refugees", but what little there is is greatly blown out of proportion by the media and other interested parties (migration profiteers, leftists, etc.). The few incidents that have occurred were mostly directed against property, e.g. proposed housing projects, not people.
The actual high frequency of violence by "refugees" (against each other and their hosts), on the other hand, is marginalized and suppressed by the media.
The ruling (left-wing) elites label legitimate concerns and worries as despicable acts.
In reality, it is they who are despicable. They are blind to the fact that, by their action, they are legitimizing the very extremists they want to eliminate. In that sense, they are not only despicable but also stupid.
This won't end well.
The US equivalent would be white-on-black crime vs. black-on-black and black-on-white crime.
What are the numbers, and which gets the publicity and which is ignored? /rhetoric
Many criminals don’t go far from their neighborhood when they commit crime. It is common that one ghetto resident preys on another. One member of a victimized class ‘victimizing’ another from the same class.
Good point.
Like the “refugees” bashing each other’s heads in at their accommodations. Big riot (another...) at one of those just a day or two ago. Totally trashed the place. Of course, all that’s due to their “cramped living conditions.” (I.e., not their fault.)
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