Conservationist
10-25-2008, 12:49 PM
Diversity, civil rights, multiculturalism and other 1968-era programs are old now. They're so old we can hear them creak. The only reason we don't say that is so many old biddies are proud of their 1968 rebellion, and they scream when you call them old. But they're old. We all get old and die.
The Swedes love their logical-emotional links, and so they dove into liberalism faster than the rest of Europe -- and it has taken it longer to prove a train wreck, since Sweden has a natively high IQ, tidy society, almost no wars, and so on.
But now that the tide is turning on multiple fronts, they're re-thinking government entirely. The Richard Florida model of "creative" communities is crap. The liberal model of education is garbage. The liberal model of social "culture" turns ancient societies into pop-culture, tv-driven junk. They're rethinking all of that.
The Americans are just starting to learn too. With this election, they're seeing that their country is hopelessly divided between a small realistic elite and masses of people who want illusions: entitlements, revenge, mystical unspecified "Change," and so on. They're going to need two countries, one of which will be first world and one of which will descend into the third world.
The Great Swedish Civil Rights Experiment Crumbles (http://www.corrupt.org/news/the_great_swedish_civil_rights_experiment_crumbles )
While this article focuses on civil law, more than that is crumbling.
Liberal economics is slowly being shown wrong.
Science is disproving many liberal (and some conservative fundamentalist) ideas about reality and genetics.
The liberal idea of big governments representing everyone with a single idea is collapsing.
Anyone else notice this?
The Swedes love their logical-emotional links, and so they dove into liberalism faster than the rest of Europe -- and it has taken it longer to prove a train wreck, since Sweden has a natively high IQ, tidy society, almost no wars, and so on.
But now that the tide is turning on multiple fronts, they're re-thinking government entirely. The Richard Florida model of "creative" communities is crap. The liberal model of education is garbage. The liberal model of social "culture" turns ancient societies into pop-culture, tv-driven junk. They're rethinking all of that.
The Americans are just starting to learn too. With this election, they're seeing that their country is hopelessly divided between a small realistic elite and masses of people who want illusions: entitlements, revenge, mystical unspecified "Change," and so on. They're going to need two countries, one of which will be first world and one of which will descend into the third world.
The Great Swedish Civil Rights Experiment Crumbles (http://www.corrupt.org/news/the_great_swedish_civil_rights_experiment_crumbles )
While this article focuses on civil law, more than that is crumbling.
Liberal economics is slowly being shown wrong.
Science is disproving many liberal (and some conservative fundamentalist) ideas about reality and genetics.
The liberal idea of big governments representing everyone with a single idea is collapsing.
Anyone else notice this?