Inspired by this song, no doubt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2GHlcwlT1Y
“I think it is very, very important for us to internalize the concepts of 4th Generation Warfare...”
Thanks for the tip. 4GW looks like a thing worth investigating.
That stops it right there. The LAST place in the country that one would expect to return to conservative ideals would be the northeast with their nasty tyrannies where the second and fourth amendemnts are no longer in effect. And the people there want it that way. Unfortunately they're too stupid to realize their attitudes and voting patterns are what has screwed up the economy there, so off they go to places like the GA and Fl to ruin them too.
Wow! Just spent some time glancing thru it. Great stuff, except for some major premises that I believe are wrong...
1. I do not expect to see a revitalized but traditional American culture happen in the Northeast. It just isn’t going to happen unless they kill most of the current inhabitants—which might be part of the book, but I didn’t see that. That part of the country just has too many Leftists and too many big cities. Not a good combination for traditional values.
2. The New South as a racial Hellhole. I’m sorry, the writer really doesn’t understand the Southern WHITE man. They will not put up with that $h1t. They are the traditional warriors of America (just look at military volunteer rolls for the past two centuries!) and do like a good fight, and will die before being insulted too much. The traditional Christian values that founded the country are still more present here (hence the nickname, “Bible Belt”) and this means that they will turn the other cheek, but to a point. Then the racial war the author writes about will begin, but the minority will lose, and lose totally. It might be an ugly piece of ethnic cleansing, but it will happen. So in the end, a visit to Atlanta will be far more pleasant for the protagonist.
I have often thought about this, because from a racial standpoint, I live right on the divide, with my county in Alabama being very white, and the next county over being about totally black. In a fight when all local authority is absent, I see the black county being invaded and an open season on anyone perceived as a thug. This is not just racial prejudice, but years of pent-up anger at being the constant scapegoats for the post Civil Rights era race-baiters. Jesse Jackson spit in their ice tea, and they haven’t forgotten. Payback will truly be a bitch. Meanwhile, the thugs that generally prey on each other for drugs and money will be slaughtered, without the veneer of law and order and Christian piety to hold the Good Ole Boys back.
I’m not suggesting such a thing should happen, but rather if it gets that far (from the author’s first section on the Dissolution of the USA), it WILL happen as I stated.
It is a fascinating book. I’ve been reading it for some time now. Put that in your database, Feds.
Remember the Boston marathon bombing? Remember the citizens of Watertown MA cowering in their homes while paramilitary police rifled through the neighborhood? These people are typical north-easterners and although there are exceptions in the rural areas, for the most part they are incapable of acting responsibly and independently. Just look at who they send to congress.
When I think of these metrosexual effete types, I am reminded of the puny 5th century Romans in Italy running for cover as the roaming bands of barbarians raped & pillaged.
I think that the northeast can look forward to martial law and further oppression. Perhaps someday, they will invite UN troops in to carry out firearms confiscation.
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Well the guy was right about the coming of CWII but it won’t be the Northeastern Socialist States Of America. They are too far down the Commie tunnel.
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in the northeast?? hahahahaha!!
Does this thing exist as a physical book?
I don’t agree with the premise of this book. I think his time periods are off and his scenarios are anachronistic. He’s speculating this will happen around the 2060s.
I recommend reading The Fourth Turning. We’re about a decade from a major crisis. 2060 will more probably be just after a cultural change period, like what the 1970s were like.
He’s describing military equipment that will no longer exist and cultural stereotypes that, even now, are gone (Korean and Jewish shopkeepers).
The story might be more believable as an alternative history set in the 1960s.
I finished the First Book this afternoon. Damn but I had written that.
Thank you for posting about this book.
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Religious tyranny is not a conservative ideal. It is no better than any other sort of tyranny. Nothing of value is being "conserved". Freedom is non-existent. Reason is not integral to the decision-making process. Religious tyrants are just like any other tyrants, with or without the fashionable attire.
Religious tyranny is the same as communist tyranny, in that all of a society is controlled by a small group of fanatics who dictate the terms of existence for a multitude of other people.
Thanks, good recommendation. Long, but really worthwhile. Interesting illustration of the cultural interface of war.
Interesting thread, this many years later.
Robert Heinlein the future historian also described the break up of the United States in his book Friday.
He pretty much described where we are today