Signs of a Dying Empire

[David Horn]

(10-05-2017, 05:21 AM)Galen Wrote: ... While the next quote from James Dale Davidson will annoy most of you hear it contains much truth and you would do well to contemplate it.  The cultural equivalence that the SJW crowd believes in is completely absurd.

"Cultures are not matters of taste but systems of adaptation to specific circumstances that may prove irrelevant or even counterproductive in other settings."

-James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age.

This is true but incomplete.  It describes the establishment of a culture but ignores its decline into something else.  For example, the culture of Appalachia was built on resentment of the British upper class, and continues with resentment of the American upper class as they see it.  It was viable at one time in the not too distant past.  It's dying now.  What replaces it, if anything, is still TBD.

The same scenario is playing-out in the Rust Belt.  Though the initial state was different, the dynamics are much the same.  DJT tapped that to get elected, but that is far from a solution to their problems ... one of which is the rapid departure of their children and arrival of new immigrants.  A new culture may emerge or the present culture may succeed in driving the new arrivals away and decaying into insignificance.