To be sure, many German scientist are doing interesting things. But are their best thinkers TRULY envisioning a better future, or even a future that looks like the present?
I was talking with an Italian woman the other day, whose brother is still in Italy, and he is telling her she would not recognize her old home. The immigrants keep coming in waves in boats, and nobody really stops them, and the first things they want are a phone, a paycheck, and government housing.
What part of “you can’t do everything for everybody forever” ever stopped being obvious, common sense?
The overall scheme seems to be clear enough. Most of the world is poor. If they do nothing but move somewhere like America they will improve their living standard considerably. But if there are not enough jobs, they go on welfare. Wherever they come from, they have typically voted for socialism in some form all their lives. If you are poor, you vote for the people who promise you free shit, even if they can’t deliver it. You vote every election like you are buying a lottery ticket, hoping one day it will be true. And like the Venezuelans, you keep doing this even as things start to fall apart, even when the modest existence you had ceases to be possible, and you fall from poverty to outright hunger and then starvation. The lesson is never learned, not least because far too people are speaking of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, and far too few people are listening in any event.
But the morally and intellectually bankrupt elites of the West–almost certainly in collusion with the Communist Chinese and their ilk around the world–think they have found in the idea of the CONTROL a global government can obtain a purpose for their otherwise useless existences.
To get a global government all you have to do is change the voting patterns of perhaps 20 industrialized nations by overwhelming them with parasites, who will reenact the voting patterns of their home countries, and invariably default to those who promise them free shit. In other words, you import and subsidize mediocrity, all while watching gleefully as they reproduce like rabbits, while those who hold any residual attachment to the values which made Western civilization the default model the world over disappear.
In Europe, you use the EXCUSE of a war to import millions, many of whom are just looking for free shit, and European tits to squeeze. In America, of course, you just pretend we don’t have a southern border, that we have no poverty and unemployment at all, and that the rights of people who came here illegally are exactly the same as those who have lived and worked and died here for generations.
Obviously, the sense that there is a WE in contrast to a THEY is inimical to this project, which is why they have to condemn “nationalism” so much.
In America, our nationalism is not racial. It is rooted in a sense of a shared attachment to a LAW, which in this sense makes us a bit like the Jews, who found some union in extreme diversity. Our law is the best ever created to govern a nation. I can and would defend this notion at length.
Hence the need to attack our law. The need to attack what few residual holidays we have and care about, like Christmas and Thanksgiving.
The whole thing is founded in darkness, in nihilism. Globalism is a religion for those who believe nothing. It is not a force for good, or even for survival, if by survival we include the provision for something approaching dignity and freedom.
This is a slow motion trainwreck, which all the nations and peoples affected can still do something about. It is not too late. But paralysis and wishful thinking will undoubtedly prove fatal to all of us.
Do you know why Mark Zuckerberg wants a universal living wage? Because he is doing is level best to eradicate most of the jobs in this and every other developed country with robots and artificial intelligence.
Why? I don’t know. I can’t speak to the minds of delusional sociopaths. He has plenty of money, and on some level he has to know his plan can’t but work cultural and psychological mass destruction.