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| 2005-04-29 |
| First a disclaimer. This is a left leaning blog Gotham Image. Second the teaser: Europe is different than America. European history and culture often moves in a dialectic - thesis, anti-thesis, and synthesis. America does not. America moves inexorably forward, with mini-reversals, but with twin pistons of Good Cop and Bad Cop endlessly chugging. ... Third the entry: The dialtone-like secular quiesence one now hears in Europe, from the cafe's of Seville to the Brandenberg gate, is very real, but misleading because it will not last. The dilalectic will change. The Opera will commence. Now, Europa is in the the eye of the demographic storm. The Venus-days have started ending as Kagan went to press. Dialtones always end, if you leave the phone off the hook. You cannot forever not have children, then import workers to do your work. This is especially so when you do not like them and they do not like you, and you do not melt with them, nor share religion. This will end -first with a whimper, followed by a bang(s). Prediction: In less than a generation, after Muslim pluralities are achieved in major cities in the Low Counties, you will see a right wing reaction all accross Europe that will make Tom DeLay's most fevered dreams look like Alan Alda-type chin scratching by comparison. There will also be the emergence of a new Christ Militant - operating against Ecclesiatical approval, but ostensibly on behalf of European Christian heritage. They could be a a far more serious version of "The Minutemen" on the Mexican border, who were denounced and denied (while seemingly inspired and provoked) by their hero Bush. ... enjoy... |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #10 thibaud (aka lex): It’s a rhetorical question, but what does history teach us about Europe? It’ll be blackshirts from Belfast to the Bosporus. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2005-04-29 1:34:38 PM |
| #9 Forget the dopey rhetorical tropes. Using the standard leftist reliance on "cultural contradictions", the guy has arrived at a very valid insight: the European center can't hold. There will be a populist backlash that will at some point gain critical mass across Europe. The European political class is almost completely blind to this and will be sandbagged by new Fortuyns. They may or may not assume a religious cast, but they will all draw from a deep reservoir of popular discontent with the elites' cluelessness, fecklessness and arrogance. The big question is whether these inevitable populist upsurges will be accompanied by organized violence-- brownshirt or blackshirt, militia or vigilante or what-have-you. |
| Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-29 12:26:32 PM |
| #8 Don't feel confused, BrerRabbit. They're just using all that allegory cuz they're too dense to use reason. That's why narrative is so important to them since they don't understand little things like causality, probability, confidence intervals, risk premiums, analysis, synthesis [here is where I wish I could do the shrinking text thingy, but am too lazy to look up the source]..... |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2005-04-29 12:16:23 PM |
| #7 .com, interesting graphic. Whence did it come? |
| Posted by: RWV 2005-04-29 12:14:35 PM |
| #6 The use of allegory in most leftist articles leaves me confused. I don't have their knowledge of popular culture to understand the points they are trying to make. The comment section, as usual, was more informative. At the bottom was a link to an article about the different schools of political thought in this country. To abuse a punchline from a old joke i'd like to say, I thought I was a cowboy but I just found out I'm a Jeffersonian. http://denbeste.nu/external/Mead01.html |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2005-04-29 7:38:37 AM |
| #5 He prolly ran across this old graphic. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-04-29 5:46:40 AM |
| #4 Phil maybe, but it is painfull to watch, slug's speed would be almost a blur in comparison. |
| Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-04-29 2:42:21 AM |
| #3 I wouldn't be too hard on them. They are just begining to recognize that multiculturalism, large scale immigration of unassimilated and largely unemployed minorities might just be a problem. To date the Left has considered this 'progress'. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-04-29 2:28:43 AM |
| #2 We get to listen to the Gotham Image chucklehead's near-unreadable whining about it. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-04-29 2:00:59 AM |
| #1 What's the downside? ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-04-29 12:53:06 AM |
