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Well-stated, Mark!
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Japan will be the first with the solution: Robots.
We have similar existential issues here ... children with sweatshop iPods building Facebook lives, a population distracted by TV and media propaganda picking sides in a phony Kabuki theater of Democrat versus Republican, a government disconnected from its responsibilities and existing only as a shell of pretense and pretend, functioning only as a cancer killing freedom and our financial future.
Ethics ate situational, morals are relative, "all cultures are equal" ... the idea of "core values" is scoffed at by professors and politicians and preachers. We have no compass, no rudder, no direction.
But we are fragmenting along some very real cultural lines, and the unprepared will see horrors in the near future.
This article is validating his book. Both the book and the article are good and worth reading in the sense of listening to the watchman on the wall (before it’s too late).
I don’t see why this demographic problem can’t be solved in one or two generations. All that is required is for people to have more children. I don’t even think they’d need to have a lot more, just 2 instead of 1 or 3 instead of two. With the advances in child health I think the population would grow rather quickly.
So, rather than mourn the coming death of the west, urge people to have more babies.
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I find it funny in an odd sort of way, that he notes the decline of the rural areas. Here on FR we find many discussing the purchase and return to the land, unafraid of the hardwork it entails to live even partially off the land. And in many ways looking forward to overcoming the challenges. But that is us conservatives and we have our own answer to, "What is life for?" Our answer is not found in the secular world.
Government can't be noble. Government can't give meaning to your life or your work. Those things can only be given meaning from one place; the secular world has finally reached the generations that are deprived of the most vital gift.
What Steyn is really describing is the loss of Godly wisdom. James 1:5
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Steyn brilliant as usual
Interesting, yesterday I was reading readers comments from some article posted from The Guardian. I can’t remember what the article was about specifically(I think it was about how eating meat causes global warming), but I remember many of the comments of the mostly European readers were that overpopulation was a serious problem if not the most important problem in the world. And here these people are depopulating themselves out of existence. What fools.