Posted on 07/17/2017 10:00:10 AM PDT by libertarian27
Longtime Steyn readers will be familiar with the demographic thesis of his 2006 international bestseller America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Almost the entire developed world is mired in deathbed demography from which no functioning society has ever recovered.
Mark's book was a big success a decade ago. But it is a melancholy fact that most people in the western world remain entirely unaware of this remorseless arithmetic or its likely consequences. So this brand new SteynPost is a kind of primer on demographic trends, and where they lead.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Has anyone here read it? Can you provide a synopsis?
If it was Steyn’s usual brilliance I have to go get it
+1, Cliff’s Notes please.
“What we have here is a failure to procreate.” Steyn states citing European countries leaders as anecdotal evidence of a pervasive (white) barrenness.
Whites can’t afford their own children when they have to pay to subsidize so many of the non whites’ children who will soon become subsidized parents themselves. End generational welfare now.
Spengler (alias David Goldman) made the same argument in a book I read in 2011: “How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying Too).” He saw birthrates falling almost everywhere, except in Israel.
This post is a video from Mark Steyn’s YouTube page.
Easy way to end that- Anyone on welfare who has ANOTHER child is an unfit mother and ALL her children are taken away and her welfare REDUCED.
Plus, any woman who does not name the father does not receive welfare- the father AS PROVEN FROM DNA SAMPLE ONLY is forced to pay child support or go to a work farm to earn the money supporting his children.
I'll give it a try...
The population of much of the countries of the developed world is shrinking to an extrapolation of extinction because "modernist" views are that it's best to have no children or be gay. Muslim countries and impoverished Africa are exceptions.
Much of the developed world has incorporated the Ponzi scheme of the young paying for the old (ie. Social Security). But at some point the young Muslim population will refuse to pay for the old and there won't be enough people left to withstand the worldwide Muslim jihad.
So far, America "stands alone" in this scenario.
This is total BS.
Government programs always work so well.
I have read it. It is brilliant. He does the mathematical projections of the birth rates among developed Western nations vs. the much higher and welfare-assisted birthrates among third-world immigrants to those nations, and concludes that the developed West has committed suicide. It’s only going to take a few more years as today’s children grow up for the West actually to expire.
This would explain the sudden demand that we accept ‘refugees’ because a stupid government problem usually calls for a stupid government solution.
Facts are facts and numbers don’t lie. This is very different than statistics.
Statistically your car will last a good 20 years if you take care of it- but if you are driving straight towards a cliff, then that FACT changes what the statistics predict. Your car is only going to last a few more seconds.
The Bible talks about the final war to end all wars...
It talks about wave after wave of men - sounds like millions. I cannot see this happening by boat over an ocean.
There is only one country that has millions of men like that... China.
They are not going to quietly let themselved be taken over by the muzzies.
You can see it now- when muzzies attack they respond with vengeance. When 4 muzzies tried to take over an aircraft, the passengers beat 3 of them to death.
There is a video right now of two trying to chop peoples heads off with a hatchet - the other patrons chase them with long swords- I am not sure if they suvived.
So, the final war starts... and then China sends wave after wave to the middle east, and kills all military aged men- they have a shortage of women, you know... this would help that problem
The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. Rev. 13:2The leopard = islamist army ?
The bear = Russia ? China ? Russia plus China ?
The lion = Western civ? UK? Christendom?
The dragon = Islam ? Satan ?
Yep. Steyn (whose witty writing I generally appreciate) beating on his mostly-dead horse yet again...
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