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Greece Today, America Tomorrow?
The drama over Greece’s financial crisis continues to dominate the headlines. As this column is being written, a deal may have been reached providing Greece with yet another bailout if the Greek government adopts new “austerity” measures. The deal will allow all sides to brag about how they came together to save the Greek economy and the European Monetary Union. However, this deal is merely a Band-Aid, not a permanent fix to Greece’s problems. So another crisis is inevitable.
The Greek crisis provides a look into what awaits us unless we stop overspending on warfare and welfare and restore a sound monetary system. While most commentators have focused on Greece’s welfare state, much of Greece’s deficit was caused by excessive military spending. Even as its economy collapses and the government makes (minor) cuts in welfare spending, Greece’s military budget remains among the largest in the European Union.
Despite all the handwringing over how the phony sequestration cuts have weakened America’s defenses, the United States military budget remains larger than the combined budgets of the world’s next 15 highest spending militaries. Little, if any, of the military budget is spent defending the American people from foreign threats. Instead, the American government wastes billions of dollars on an imperial foreign policy that makes Americans less safe. America will never get its fiscal house in order until we change our foreign policy and stop wasting trillions on unnecessary and unconstitutional wars.
Excessive military spending is not the sole cause of America’s problems. Like Greece, America suffers from excessive welfare and entitlement spending. Reducing military spending and corporate welfare will allow the government to transition away from the welfare state without hurting those dependent on government programs. Supporting an orderly transition away from the welfare state should not be confused with denying the need to reduce welfare and entitlement spending.
On reason Greece has been forced to seek bailouts from its EU partners is that Greece ceded control over its currency when it joined the European Union. In contrast, the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency is the main reason the US has been able to run up huge deficits without suffering a major economic crisis. The need for the Federal Reserve to monetize ever-increasing levels of government spending will eventually create hyperinflation, which will lead to increasing threats to the dollar’s status. China and Russia are already moving away from using the dollar in international transactions. It is only a matter of time before more countries challenge the dollar’s reserve currency status, and, when this happens, a Greece-style catastrophe may be unavoidable.
Despite the clear dangers of staying on our recent course, Congress continues to increase spending. The only real debate between the two parties is over whether we should spend more on welfare or warfare. It is easy to blame the politicians for our current dilemma. But the politicians are responding to demands from the people for greater spending. Too many Americans believe they have a moral right to government support. This entitlement mentally is just as common, if not more so, among the corporate welfare queens of the militarily-industrial complex, the big banks, and the crony capitalists as it is among lower-income Americans.
Congress will only reverse course when a critical mass of people reject the entitlement mentality and understand that the government is incapable of running the world, running our lives, and running the economy. Therefore, those of us who know the truth must spread the ideas of, and grow the movement for, limited government, free markets, sound money, and peace.
45 Comments on "Greece Today, America Tomorrow?"
Plantagenet on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 12:01 pm
Obama’s huge budget deficits have run up the US national debt to over 17 trillion. The only thing that is saving the US from having a Greek style problem are the record low interest rates prevailing now. If interest rates were at normal levels, the interest payments on US debt would be 3-4X higher, causing big problems for the federal budget.
Hello on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 12:15 pm
Important for the wellbeing of a nation is the capacity and capability of its industry and infrastructure.
Debt can easily be shed. It’s simple. File for bankruptcy… debt-be-gone!
Building a capable new factory is much harder.
Northwest Resident on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 12:22 pm
“excessive welfare and entitlement spending”
No argument there. But what are you going to do? Just let the disabled and the disadvantaged and the feeble and sickly and the lazy do-nothings ALL just rot away?
In the Age of Oil, there was plenty of excess energy to take care of all those and still leave enough energy to grow the economy and spread the wealth. Now that the Age of Oil is winding down, there isn’t going to be enough excess to take care of those who can’t or won’t take care of themselves. That is just a hard, cold and brutal fact of life.
Very difficult and painful decisions are going to have to be made. Or, screw it, just keep printing money until the whole thing collapses, then let random chance and Mother Nature sort things out. I’m guessing THAT is the plan.
apneaman on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 12:48 pm
“excessive welfare and entitlement spending”
That would be welfare for everyone working in every major industry sucking on the subsidy tit including the majority of those working in the worlds bureaucracies. Once the SHTF we are going to see a whole lot of useless eaters with college degrees or some other professional accreditation who have been part of these legalized monopolies for their whole career. I know many people work hard with well intent, but how many realize that they are subsidized and that the house of cards has been hollowed out from the bottom?
Let the (blame) Games begin!
Is The Free Market a Hoax?
“This got me thinking about the issue of subsidies in general. See, I happen to know that it’s not only the Concorde–the entire commercial airline industry has been unprofitable. When you average out all the ups-and-downs of the commercial air travel industry and subtract the bailouts and giveaways, air travel itself has never made a profit in the entire history of the industry! It turns out that in the 30 years since the airline industry was deregulated in 1978, it has lost nearly $60 billion on U.S. operations. Domestic passenger airline operations lost $10 billion from 1979 to 1989, made profits of $5 billion in the 1990s and lost $54 billion from 2000 to 2009. A similar case is true for just about any means of commercial passenger transportation (bus, rail, etc.)
This caused me to wonder if this were really true. Will any nonsubsidized entity cease to exist beyond subsidies? If so, we’re in a heap of trouble because, try as I might, I could not think of a single major industry that was not subsidized!”
http://hipcrime.blogspot.ca/2015/07/is-free-market-hoax.html
Hello on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 1:20 pm
Ape-man:
Air travel is considered part of the infrastructure necessary for a modern economy. It does not need to be profitable, just the same way as road construction is not profitable. It’s infrastructure.
apneaman on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 1:30 pm
Considered by whom? The major share holders who keep getting rich because the tax payer is forced to bail them out? Like the banks and automotive manufactures, etc, etc. If the infrastructure is so all important then maybe it should be nationalized so the tax payer does not have to pay hundred million dollar bonuses to the upper management of dead beat companies. I thought the first rule of capitalism was you sink or swim on your own?
Pennsyguy on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 2:01 pm
In the U.S., subsidies for highways and airlines are seldom questioned. It’s as if they are part of God’s Plan. Any money for rail, on the other hand, leads to socialism or perdition. I never figured that out.
Boat on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 2:23 pm
Plant…. What was the debt before Obama. What was the amount spent in the American reinvestment recovery act to fill the hole in the economy. How much revenue in the form of taxes was lost over the next few years. What was the deficit compared to now and subtract it. Please come back with the revised numbers. Please stick with facts and numbers and don’t just throw shytt out there like the doomers and racists. Let’s have a moral conversation. No more Mak mathematics.
R1verat on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 2:51 pm
I saw a report about a year back that said that if the businesses & corporations that currently enjoy the benefits of the “Bush tax cuts” paid their fair share, that our gov’t wouldn’t be in such dire straits. Of course, then you have the justification that these tax cuts have created jobs-which the stats don’t prove have ever happened. But we all know how stats & gov’t reports can be manipulated.
It is sooo much easier to promote class warfare than address the issue of everyone paying their fair share. If I were king for a day no business would be allow to sell any of their product unless their product was completely made in the USA, But what do I know.
Richard on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 3:00 pm
The article is by the former congressman Ron Paul, somebody with some interesting view points but also awkwards views too.
He isn’t wrong about spending beyond one’s means rehtoric.
As usuall no mention of America’s foreign policy as a way of controlling or more keeping the flow of crude stable in a region with it’s own problems.
Hello on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 3:01 pm
That’s correct ape. The world indeed is not perfect. Surely you can see that compromises have to be made.
Especially infrastructure is a very interesting situation. How much should be provided by the state for free, and how much should be paid by the user?
Clearly you have read history books about the good old times in medieval Europe?
Every bridge, every road, every ferry, every town, every tunnel had to be paid by the traveler.
Surely that was fair, at least the one that used the infrastructure paid for it. But was it efficient?
Boat on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 3:08 pm
The American paradox.
First we give tax breaks for having children when statistics show 40% of all births are to unwed women. We force women to work at leaving baby sitters that they can’t afford to raise the kids or a family member. After the crash the US was over 10% unemployment. So what do we do? We continue to bring legal immigrants to the tune of 2 million per year. The girls and their kids don’t have a chance at any decent wage. So why flood the labor market with unneeded workers? Neither party wants to talk about it. It is easier and more profitable to label them as class welfare gone wrong.
apneaman on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 3:51 pm
Hello apparently your beloved system is just not working (most likely because there are no compromises since deregulation) get ready to say Goodbye Hello.
Estimated Investment Needed by 2020:
$3.6 Trillion
http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/grades/
Aging US Power Grid Blacks Out More Than Any Other Developed Nation
http://www.ibtimes.com/aging-us-power-grid-blacks-out-more-any-other-developed-nation-1631086
America’s Infrastructure Is Slowly Falling Apart
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/america-is-collapsing-a-brief-look-at-the-us-infrastructure-meltdown-130
Falling Apart
Steve Kroft reports on why America’s roads, bridges, airports and rail lines are outdated and need to be fixed
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/falling-apart-america-neglected-infrastructure-60-minutes/
Plantagenet on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 4:27 pm
@Boat.
Of course there was US debt before Obama. Nonetheless it is projected that the US debt will double during Obama’s term—-thats one heck of a lot of debt creation by any measure, especially when you remember that Obama promised in his 2008 campaign to cut the annual federal deficit level in half and instead he tripled it.
apneaman on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 5:16 pm
Hey planty, how much is it costing the great state of Alaska to fight them fires? Running up some debt there I imagine. Maybe ask them fossil fuel boys to kick in a little more eh?
The stunning statistic that puts this year’s Alaskan wildfires in perspective
“As of Monday, it is at 4,447,182.2 acres, according to the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center — a total that puts the 2015 wildfire season in sixth place overall among worst seasons on record. It’s very likely to move into fifth place by Tuesday — and it’s still just mid-July. There is a long way to go.”
“According to the Center, 2015 is now well ahead of the rate of burn seen in the worst year ever, 2004, when 6,590,140 acres burned in 701 fires. “Fire acreage totals are more than 14 days ahead of 2004,” the agency notes. In other words, and although the situation could still change, we may be watching the unfolding of the worst year ever recorded.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/07/13/2015-is-on-pace-to-be-the-worst-year-on-record-for-alaska-wildfires-heres-why-thats-scary/
They update this daily, in case anyone wants to keep score of the externalities.
http://fire.ak.blm.gov/content/aicc/sitreport/current.pdf
Hello on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 5:17 pm
Ape
Everything falls apart. That’s the nature of stuff. As soon as you put 2 bricks on top of each other they start falling apart.
The question is how “perfect” does stuff need to be? Clearly a few potholes spell no trouble, especially since most drive a truck or SUV.
Boat on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 5:19 pm
Your correct. Obama was wrong, lied or misjudged the crash. I think if he had it to over he would went for a bigger stimulus pkg. Facts remain the country went into a huge hole along with much of the world which also affected the deficit and the debt. Let’s not forget the two wars that were handed to him.
bug on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 5:22 pm
http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!http://www1.heritage.org/articles/1/essays/34/spending-clause
Planters, please read this, seems that Congress spends money
apneaman on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 5:34 pm
Hello, you tell yourself whatever fantasy you need to to keep going till it sinks in.
Plantagenet on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 6:09 pm
@bug
You are quite wrong.
The Congress AUTHORIZES the spending of money. THEN after Congress passes a budget bill and the President signs It into law it is the executive branch that actually spends it.
AND If the executive branch doesn’t spend it, it goes back into Treasury.
Cheers!
Plantagenet on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 6:31 pm
Trying to pretend that Obama’s debt isn’t his responsibility because he “inherited two wars” is silly.
Obama himself is a big supporter of the war in Afghanistan. He called it “the good war” and Obama is the one who escalated the war (and the spending) in Aghansitan by surging almost a hundred thousand more US troops into Afghanistan after 2009. Thanks to Obama we’ve had 2000 US casualties in Afghanistan since 2009 —- we had just a few hundred before that.
And as far as Iraq goes, Obama promised to END that war. Instead, he played the fool—-he marched the US troops out, and then a couple of years later he is marching US troops back in again—we’ve got about 5000 US troops in Iraq now.
This is indecision and stupidity worthy of ridicule similar to the old English poem ridiculing the Duke of York for a similar idiotic strategy:
The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men
He marched them up to the top of the hill
And he marched them down again.
When they were up, they were up
And when they were down, they were down
And when they were only halfway up
They were neither up nor down.
bug on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 6:38 pm
so then congress can write a spending bill for say several billions less and give it to the president to sign, and ….viola less spending. And Heritage is wrong? And if not spent it goes to the treasury then it is what, a surplus?
Newfie on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 7:02 pm
There is no solution. An economy based on never ending growth is doomed to fail.
Plantagenet on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 7:35 pm
@bug
Think about it. If Congress authorizes 1 billion dollars for the federal helium balloon mail service, and the executive branch doesn’t spend the money, has it been spent?
NO—it returns to the treasury unspent, i.e. Congress doesn’t spend money—it authorizes the executive branch to spend it .
Get it now?
CHEERS!
penury on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 8:45 pm
The title is wrong. The U.S. prints their own money. The Fed buys T-bills and regardless of interest rates keeps only the amount that they spend on administration. The rest of the money is returned to the Treas. Essentially the gov is borrowing interest free from the Fed. And I have a question for some: when was the last time you heard of a gov agency not spending all the money which was allocated? The story always is “if we do not spend it all, they will cut our budget next time.
Makati1 on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 9:08 pm
With all of the arguments presented above, by our panel of commenters, only one fact is obvious and true: The whole game plan by the elites is to move money and power up to them and out of the hands of the rest of us. It is working perfectly as we are too busy playing the blame game and directing our attention to the fluff of life instead of the meat.
ohanian on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 9:29 pm
Today’s Federal Debt is about $18,603,050,268,000.
Plantagenet on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 11:00 pm
Yup. Obama is on track for to hit the 20 TRILLION federal debt mark by the time he leaves office (and leaves us with the bill for all hi spending).
Makati1 on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 11:32 pm
Plant, that is ok. The next sock puppet will outdo even him. Wait and see. That is, IF the whole house of cards doesn’t fall before then.
ffkling on Tue, 14th Jul 2015 3:07 am
Planters-
So what would you have done differently? Followed the Republican proposal to deny loans to the automotive industry? When the Bush left office the country was hemorrhaging jobs at 750,000 per month. The price tag for the Bush wars is now estimated to be in the $5 to 6 trillion range. It’s all too easy using hind-site to cast blame. Even worse according to your analysis anything and everything wrong is Obama’s doing. ALL of your postings represent a dig at Obama. A tremendous amount of hate is boiling inside of you.
Boat on Tue, 14th Jul 2015 5:12 am
Plant, are you just political opposed to Obama, or are you willing to look at the numbers with a sense of fairness.
Boat on Tue, 14th Jul 2015 5:34 am
Inflation adjusted
2005….9.6
2006….9.9
2007….10.2
2008….11
2009….13.1
2010….14.7
2011….15.5
2012….16.5
2113….17
2014….18.1
Notice the big jump in 2008? So a guy gets elected, the economy has crashed and you blame Obama for 2009 even though any kind of policy move takes time to get legislation passed and time for the stimulus and policy to take place.
I find it weird that I am defending Obama when he has done so many things wrong. But Plant, seriously pick another topic. This happened on Bush’s watch.
Boat on Tue, 14th Jul 2015 5:56 am
Mak,
With all of the arguments presented above, by our panel of commenters, only one fact is obvious and true: The whole game plan by the elites is to move money and power up to them and out of the hands of the rest of us.
There are many areas that an individual or small group can have little impact. However, collectively as a country problem solving can including sweeping changes. Mak, you worry to much. One good thing about the US. Most of the changes that happen and will happen,you will oppose. That means odds are were going in the right direction. Lol
Davy on Tue, 14th Jul 2015 6:19 am
Boat, Mak is strictly engaged in a personal agenda of hate and resentment from a failed 70 years in the US. I have been here long enough to put the pieces together from his daily rants over two years now that I have been here. His rants are copy and paste drivel much like a Baghdad Bob. I agree we should have anti-American discussions here but he takes the cake as a numb nut with an agenda.
Mak’s facts are selective and used in a distorted way. His whole agenda has blown up in his face with China and Asia now in decline like the rest of us. I love seeing him squirm with all this bad news. He is a trooper though he sticks to his guns. I have to admire that. It is a pity he does not embrace the truth and talk about everyone’s mutual problems but he is a dedicated pissed off anti-American asshole.
Cloud9 on Tue, 14th Jul 2015 7:43 am
TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Yeats
Hubbert on Tue, 14th Jul 2015 11:35 am
Very interesting crisis taking place in U.S. Illinois maybe the first state to go bankrupt. Chicago is beyond bankrupt at this point with pension problems.
GregT on Tue, 14th Jul 2015 1:05 pm
@ planter,
You are one confused individual. Your “oil glut” has far more to do with the exponentially growing US federal debt than Obama does.
Makati1 on Tue, 14th Jul 2015 8:47 pm
Boat, you are a dreamer if you think the tide will turn in the US. The only option that is left is revolt by tens of millions and the bloodshed that will follow. I don’t see the drugged, brainwashed, obese, couch potatoes ever doing that. I only have to look at my own family and friends in the US to see that fact. America is a divided nation.
You do not live in a democracy, or a republic as some like to argue. You live in Nazi Germany reincarnated. The only difference is that Hitler is more than one person this time. It is the power behind the sock puppet in chief that lives in the White House. He is soon to be followed by an even more radical, war mongering sock puppet as the blood of Americans is drained for the vampires behind the scenes.
If you don’t want to believe and prepare, so be it. When the light comes on, I won’t say I told you so, but…LOL.
Makati1 on Tue, 14th Jul 2015 10:00 pm
“We will not return to a rational economy or restore democracy until these global speculators are stripped of power. This will happen only if the streets of major cities in Europe and the United States are convulsed with mass protests. The tyranny of these financial elites knows no limits. They will impose ever greater suffering and repression until we submit or revolt. I prefer the latter. But we don’t have much time.”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page3/we_are_all_greeks_now_20150712
Reinforces my comments, but Jade Helm 15 starts tomorrow. I wonder if this is what they are preparing for?
theedrich on Wed, 15th Jul 2015 2:06 am
The Greek crisis is just another example of the same Greek laziness that led to the Byzantine Empire calling on the West to fight the Mohammedans (and hence begin the crusades) because Greeks were too self-absorbed and indolent to protect their own turf, and later letting the Mohammedans completely conquer Constantinople in 1453 for the same reasons. In fact, the Greeks would still be under the Ottoman thumb if the West had not crushed the Turks in WW I. Greeks simply cannot exist without whimpering for outside help. They are now blaming all of their problems on the Germans. What a joke! Let them twist in the wind.
theedrich on Wed, 15th Jul 2015 2:27 am
No matter how well Tainter (The Collapse of Complex Societies) or others have explained the lethality of unrestrained growth and complexification, it makes no difference. The insensate urge to plunder others and the earth itself forces the balloon to expand beyond the breaking point. If we were rational, we would terminate the sob-story “compassion,” the international slave trade importing ThirdWorlders, the narcocrime and the massive hypocrisy that covers it all. But there is no chance of that, given the stranglehold (cf. the current WhiteHouse denizen) the media psychopaths have on the masses and the epidemic of pseudo-utopian leftism that dominates academe.
Boat on Wed, 15th Jul 2015 6:28 am
Countries and states around the world have way to much debt. Sometimes it takes a crisis to change bad habits. Habits can and will chang when forced upon them, Greece and America are no different.
Davy on Wed, 15th Jul 2015 7:47 am
Thee, I think you are pushing your caricatures. There is such a blending and melting of peoples in different levels of socio economic groupings and productive capacities. The difference between peoples and abilities is quite small. I agree cultures are less productive than others but today I don’t think you can push that too far as you once could. All locals and cultures have been delocalized. Comparative advantage rules with control nodes. I agree we have a mass of third world desperate peoples because of overpopulation. We will soon see desperate peoples in the developed world from a crash in complexity and energy intensity they depend on. What’s the difference desperate is desperate.
I see all locals in overshoot whether from dependence on consumption or in overpopulation. Many third world areas have good subsistence cultures but they are far to overpopulated to manage a forced degrowth of globalism without huge loss of life. The developed world is in a similar pickle with too much population dependent on energy intensive and complex networks to deliver most everything of survival.
All locals have sustainability, resilience, and tough people in a comparative way. There are people around here in central Missouri who in the right conditions could go much less complexed and energy intensive. The same is true in Greece. The issue is overpopulation of locals in sheer numbers or locals in consumption dependence. Few places have the right stuff anymore to transition out of a global world. The ones that do will be the seeds of the future. 7BIL people that should be at a sustainable 1BIL attests to this.
Our global system has spread to every corner of the earth with its dangerous complex adaptive self-organizing systemization. You cannot go anywhere of significance and escape globalization’s clutches and dependencies. This globalism has proceeded to a maximum in the last 20 years. All areas are nothing but commodities of this global network now.
To try to label people today is difficult anyway but in today’s globalism useless. There are core groups of peoples in all locals that are responsible for this connection to the global. They are the rich, educated, and connected. The rest are slaves of dependence on a non-sustainable non resilient system. It does not matter at this point if this is from excessive population or high dependency on complexity and energy intensity. Overshoot is global now.
All regions rich or poor will undergo a rebalance in the near future. Time frame is uncertain. I imagine the way the global system is wealth transferring this will proceed until it can’t. In all regions this decaying global system will be casting off less connected peoples. In rich nations the mass of unemployed will swell. In poor nations the masses will get poorer.
The rich and connected globally will continue to maintain control because this is the only way the system can be maintained without complete collapse. This is irreversible and cannot be reengineered like so many think. I hear so many on this site bitch moan and complain if only this or that group would be gone and their group in. Bullshit, we are stuck with what we have in a condition of an entropic decay of a globalized complex adaptive system teetering on descent. Once collapse is complete then maybe we can use your reasoning Thee.
theedrich on Fri, 17th Jul 2015 7:50 pm
Davy, we can hyperintellectualize about our global dilemma as much as we want. The question is, what can we DO about it? The international banking system (see PeakOil’s link on The Secret Bank Bailout) has devised a way to suck the blood and sovereignty out of every Western nation and enslave it — all under various euphemisms and coverups, we might add. No one can see how to escape this legalized crime. Just as narcotraffickers seduce pubescent children into addiction, so the banks (including American ones such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Chase, etc.) seduce national politicians with the lure of cheap loans (allegedly to be paid back with cheaper currencies due to miraculous growth through innovation and new technologies). $Trillions are involved here. And the financial system is both amoral (Georg Sörös’ word) and stateless. The bank-controlled media invents diversionary scapegoats (other nations, unspecified market manipulators, Darth Vader) to exculpate the banks and their kept politicians. (Why are the media spending so much time attacking Trump in every conceivable way? Cui bono for such attacks?)
Most people have neither the time nor the interest to delve into these matters. That allows kleptocratic elites to deceive them all the more easily. Nonetheless, even legalized theft and tyranny have their limits in a closed system. Hence the “failed state.” Evolution is based on the need for life to escape suffocation under such circumstances by developing more intelligence. (The name for this process is “evolutionary epistemology.”) There comes a time when collapse forces thitherto unpalatable choices, and a transvaluation of all values occurs. The demigod Ø seems to think that he can forestall that collapse by using White Guilt to induce Whites to commit genosuicide. He is clearly enjoying considerable success in that regard. But the collapse will come all the sooner due to that success.
You say that the differences between cultures and peoples is quite small. In fact, it is the small differences which account for evolution. Over hundreds of millions of years, they meant the difference between extinction and survival. A minor example: we are biologically very close to the chimpanzees, sharing perhaps 98% of our DNA with them. We were even closer to the Neanderthals, Peking Man and other hominids. But homo sapiens alone has survived, for the same reason. The future is going to be determined by precisely those small differences.
Davy on Fri, 17th Jul 2015 9:16 pm
Thee said “Davy, we can hyperintellectualize about our global dilemma as much as we want. The question is, what can we DO about it?” Not much we can do Thee. I enjoy the intellectual exercise of our board. I believe in mental stimulation and believe it as important as physical workouts. I can prep locally is about the extent of my ability to do something about this dilemma. Here is some David Korowicz from “How to be Trapped” on the subject “Circumstances will lead behavior. And how our behavior adapts to circumstances, that will vary. That is where there are fields of different possibilities.”