Posted on 08/17/2006 11:19:22 AM PDT by RKV
Wow. Steyn has made that argument before, but I've never seen it in such depth.
The guy is brilliant. In 10 or 20 years this message will be mainstream thought. Right now, he's the only one proclaiming it.
No, it's a war of ideas. Belief is just the doorway. There is no moral equivalence between Christianity and radical Islam, so to call them both "belief systems" is not accurate. There is an objective truth to one, and not to the other.
Wonderful Steyn! He is sounding the alarm on the civilizational issues of population and politics, but I wonder if anybody but us is listening.
Unfortunately, as most of his writings have a conservative bent, he'll never win a Pulitzer. Even though he writes rings around every other op ed contributor I have ever come across, and covers a much broader spectrum, from pop culture to the war to the future.
It's as if Frank Rich of the NYT kept up writing play reviews while doing his editorials on the world, and had talent too.
Reminds me of a question that used to get asked when I was a kid: "What will people wear in the future?"
Nine?! Wow! Good for you!
And apparently the school girls are nothing but a fantasy of the middle-aged japanese male.
Scary thought...the phrase "societal reprimitization" is quite catchy, no?
Mark Steyn is brilliant and writes well. He can even do this level of discourse live on the radio. He notices trends and tells the truth about both important and trivial issues.
I wish he was carried on mainstream media, just because that way more people would see and hear what he is saying. Thank goodness we get to read Mark Steyn here on FR.
You would think that Fox or some other channel would sign this guy up for $$$. Of course, that would mean that Bill O'Reilly would probably be out of a job, but I't take the loss.
I think that one of our big problems is that people don't get just how bad primitive can be, and how fast we could get back to primitive.
It just ROLLS off the tongue!
I think I'm gonna name my band that.
Congratulations! You win the internet!
I just realized that when people talk about us being the modern day Roman Empire in its decline, they had the right point but missed the target. It's "old Europe" that far more closely resembles the dying Empire.
Like decaying Rome, you have a center with a declining birthrate demanding its bread and circuses to keep the masses happy. The modern European welfare state. And that declining birthrate meant that you saw a demographic barbarization of the Empire, in addition to just plain old invasions. Just like they're seeing now. They really don't have the guts to fight off the barbarians -- they just buy them off with appeasement.
And other attitudes are similar as well. The late-Empire Romans feared more vigorous cultures, looking upon them as somewhat uncivilized and not respecting their "betters". That's how they looked at the Franks, etc. And that's kind of how they look on us. Loud, uncouth, too strong for our own good, and just not as "sophisticated" as they are.
They're circling the drain, dude.
Yeah...but any fanbase would probably just shorten it to the "primates", which would be the end result anyhow...
How is it going Z? The cute blonde intern already gone back to school?
Both of ours were brunettes, and they both went back last Friday . . . place is quiet around here without the kids!
Everybody thought it would be silver jumpsuits with groovy shoulder flares.
Very catchy, one can see it all around us. Some mistake it for enlightenment.
The one thing I feel confident of is that the future will not look like we think it will look. We didn't recognize that if some societies exercised population control, that the worlds population would continue to explode while those societies that exercised it would disappear.
I wonder what will happen to China and India. China still restricts children to roughly one per couple, and India still practices infanticide on female babies.
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