Comments on: Bidding the Horsemen Adieu

By: Lupo

Lupo — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:25:04 +0000

Hey Welmer: followed you here from Roissy’s place. Bernie is a hoot; I TA-ed for a couple of his classes. His statistics are spot on as well. One of the things which boggles me is the boondoggle of Fusion research. Fission power: you put a piece of metal in a jar of water, water gets hot, spins turbines. Fusion, all kinds of impossible things have to happen, nobody knows how to do it, and it *still* won’t be particularly “clean” because of all the damn neutrons.

By: Lukobe

Lukobe — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:51:09 +0000

I would wager that in this case, as in so many others, the majority of immigrants are a boon, and it’s the small but vocal minority that comes with an “innate hostility toward natives.” Unfortunately, they’re the ones that get the press.

Most of the immigrants are probably working the corner gas station, laundromat, deli, convenience store, etc., and don’t even have the time to think of anything else.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:52:50 +0000

Opportunities for natives certainly have declined considerably over the past generation, but after a long, hard look at what’s going on I’ve come to the conclusion that it is mainly other natives who are responsible for this. Mass immigration is a problem, but we have people such John McCain declaring that there’s no alternative solution.

Not to say the Democrats are better (they aren’t, IMO), but the impulse to smash one’s compatriots appears to be a systemic illness. Personally, I think it can only be cured through a philosophical reorientation that introduces reason and natural law to our sense of morality.

Obviously, some newcomers are a boon to our society. Sadly, many are not, but we have to take care not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. However, if people come here with an innate hostility toward natives, they obviously don’t belong, no matter how talented they may be. I’m all for sending them back with prejudice.

By: Lukobe

Lukobe — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:55:19 +0000

You’re blaming latter-day immigrants for this, Harry?

By: Harry Springer

Harry Springer — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:49:38 +0000

People in China, India, and the middle east feel no such apocalyptic intimations. Former third world areas like Africa and South America, likewise also feel great optimism, having emerged from tribalism & colonialism, into a new dawn of Chinese-produced TV sets, clothing, and modern gadgetry. Things are better there.

In Hollywood, where the Democratic Party line is written by drug-soaked black-leathered oddballs, the engine of doom pumps out its silly message of fear to only the USA, and the Euro states.

Feeling bad about society in these countries is a reality-based outlook. Outsiders are dragging these areas down to a social level on a par with the former colonized areas, and opportunities for native born mainstream ethnicities are becoming cut off.

So the phenomenon of which you write, is a strictly Caucasian-as-minority angst, peculiar to the former colonializing states, and localized in their formerly dominant ethnicities.

In this smaller cohort, the feeling may be indeed fact-based.