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.
"The media" - specifically journalism - is in thrall to the idea of their own importance. In thrall to the idea that is, that not only is the pen mightier than the sword, the sword and everything else is irrelevant compared to the glories of PR. I think that is the only way to explain the media's antipathy towards the military, the police, and business. Everything which we rely on in the real world is, inside the virtual reality of his newspaper, seen by the journalist as a mere pretender.The conceit of the journalist is that only the journalist keeps anyone honest.
Descarte's famous dictum, cognito ergo sum - "I think therefore I am" - has been called the lunatic fringe of philosophy because it suggests that nothing else but "I" can be proven to exist. But how is that different from a philosophy which denies that reality even exists if it doesn't show up in the newspapers?