06-23-2018, 11:44 PM
(06-23-2018, 08:07 AM)David Horn Wrote:(06-22-2018, 12:46 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: OK, but "macho-land" is pretty extensive in the world. A lot of the Islamic world is that way with some exceptions like the Kurd tribe. Latin America is/was , [ask an expert] may be another location. In any event, macho-land seems to be a really big place on earth. So, to use an analogy, and to extend it to immigration in general try this:
You're cooking a pot of soup. A teaspoon of salt is OK, while dumping the whole can makes a horrible tasting and most likely toxic soup. Immigration is like salt, a little is fine and beneficial, while dumping a whole shit pot is a very bad thing. The "To me, the no border brigade are a bunch of clueless idealists. They ignore human nature, history, and even climate change. Humans seem to be as dumb as petri dish bacteria when it comes to breeding. Climate change + breeding will result in billions of deaths. Earth is finite and infinite things crash. The same rule for deer applies to humans. I just don't want to consume a lethal dose of sodium.
This is exactly the problem. We are rapidly devolving into two worlds: one that is orderly and rule based and one that's disorderly and chaotic. The latter appears to be growing, so the ordered world wants to stop it at its borders. I don't think that works, frankly.
We've fought major wars for less. Let's not this time, okay?
At its core, modernity is the cause. How do you fight that? The world is changing, but very few are benefitting. That's a big part of the problem. The powerful couldn't care less as long as they get theirs and a big chunk of yours to boot. Either that changes or the chaos continues to spread.
To me, it looks like we more or less agree. Here are some links which I duckduckgo'd. [I don't use google].
1. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/joergen-o...67118.html
I didn't see a reference explicitly mentioning wage arbitrage, but that's one of globalism's internal contradictions. The article says "wealth creation", but didn't go into how wage arbitrage makes for great fuel for economic nationalism. Likewise no mention of amoral elites that lead to situations like Flint, Appalachia, New Orleans, [still messed up after Katrina], and of course Puerto Rico. To me, it seems globalism is facing its own seeds of destruction.
2. https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/d...w-dark-age
Here, I'm awestruck. Here's a mainstream organization that dwells in Ragsworld.
I can't really come up with anything to add or disagree with. While the mainstream media [I guess] since I don't even pay attention anymore since they bloviates and dwell on trivial matters. 3. So, there are hard choices. Amoral transnational elites have to be controlled. Mass migration also needs to be addressed. Here, we have morons like Sessions. He's unaware that his hangup on the war on drugs is fueling the push of migrants. Neocons have really screwed things up here as well. George W. Bushes wars of choice have created a litany of failed states which are mile markers on the highway of hell to collapse. We still have neocon projects in Latin America that are likewise mile markers. Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela help nobody!
Wait, there's more.
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/hondur...ling-14265
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/right...-guatemala
I suppose as far as Latin America, the US is the empire of chaos. Blowback's a bitch.
I think Russia got dealt pocket aces. The USSR collapse cleaned out a lot of cruft. They have almost no debt.
China has lots of debt but so far has cohesion. Their industrial base may remedy their debt problem though they may have some pain. Iceland may escape since nobody wants what they have and their isolated. W Europe is a big mess along with us. I'll check back in `10 years and see if we left the highway to hell. I think Africa will be the first place to enter a dark age. Then again, Africa may well be the first place to emerge if the whole world goes dark. I think Latin America has more or less the same prospects as Africa. In Ragsworld, both may rise like a Phoenix sometime in distant future.
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