Nairobis ( 12 years ago )
Along those lines: In 1987 this story was fresh; In 1997 this story was familiar; In 2007 this story, along with the iSteve coermntamy, is boring.Steve, your hometown Los Angeles is dropping off functional America's radar. And your California stories increasingly register as missives from a boring, brown version of the USA. In another ten years you'll need to move to another state in order to maintain an audience for your local color stories. Because the truth is that "hot-blooded" Latin culture, with the corrupt plutocracy sitting on top of the dysfunctional brown masses, is intensely boring. There is little innovation in art, and no innovation in science. And there is only a sideline role in world events.This is the most insightful post that I've ever seen at iSteve.Yet it's also trivial - it's a tautological conclusion of everything which Steve Sailer writes about.At some point, Sailer is going to have to follow his ideas to their logical conclusion, and ask himself whether the war has been lost - whether there are no more battles which could possibly be won, and whether it isn't time to start planning a strategic retreat into hiding.On the other hand, the problem is that this time there isn't anywhere to hide.The Puritans, facing annihilation from the Catholics [both Roman & Anglican], could flee to Massachusetts.The Jews, facing annihilation from the Tsar & Hitler [and, in limited cases, Brehznev & his successors], could flee to New York & Chicago.As could the Moravians, the Amish, the Armenians - the Irish, Protestant & Catholic alike, facing starvation in the potato famine - and countless other groups who fled persecution [& starvation] and found succor in the New World.But this time there isn't any "New World" to flee to. Everywhere is known. Everywhere is established. Everywhere is Old World now.Today there's  about a new secessionist movement in Tennessee, but as I posted in another thread, the last time that was tried, it ended in the greatest carnage the world had ever seen.And ironically enough, just yesterday, the Washington Times had an article about  in the aftermath of the Civil War.Anybody care to flee to Brazil these days?There just isn't anywhere to run to this time.And demography is destiny - the people who make the babies make the future.Right now, our future looks , and it's not clear that "functional America" can survive that much dead weight.Personally, the more I look at the numbers, the less hope I have for any pretty resolution to this mess.And I know that the future is a notoriously difficult thing to predict, but right now, all of the most likely futures for this country look very ugly to me.