The transformation of developed societies - either into old folks' homes (like Japan) or semi-Islamized dystopias (like Amsterdam, Brussels, etc) - will lead, in fact, to emigration. A young German or Japanese circa 2040 will have no reason whatsoever to stay in his native land and have most of his income confiscated in a vain attempt to prop up an unsustainable geriatric welfare system.FUCK YOU MOM AND DAD!
For much of the developed world, the "credit crunch", the debt burden, and the rest are not part of a cyclical economic downturn but the first manifestations of an existential crisis.
ReplyDeleteSteyn is excited because he thinks he's positioned himself well to claim the title Albert Camus of the 21st Century.
Our aged relatives are our existential enemies.
ReplyDeleteTime to revive the institution of mattress parties.
Still, it's a sweet reminder of how far we've come since WWII that Steyn is worried for the populations of Germany and Japan.
ReplyDeleteBookmark this, libs!
ReplyDeletewell, it does provide a succinct explanation for why all those young folks are moving to Somalia nowadays.
ReplyDeleteSo essentially Steyn is questioning the claim that unencumbered movement of individuals and capital is necessarily a good thing?
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing him at the barricades at the next anti-globalisation protest.
A young German or Japanese circa 2040 will have no reason whatsoever to stay in his native land
ReplyDeleteThey could build a wall to stop people leaving. Germans are used to that.
The sad part is that Steyn believes there'll still be ice-floes to leave the elderly on.
ReplyDeleteWe await with increasing delight the advent of Mr Steyn old age, when he will do the decent thing.
ReplyDeleteAnother Kiwi said...
ReplyDeleteWe await with increasing delight the advent of Mr Steyn old age, when he will do the decent thing.
July 19, 2009 3:53 PM
Is going Burt a movement yet?
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We can just put a halt to the use of BURT and MOVEMENT in the same sentence, now.
ReplyDeleteYeah. I noticed all the frantic hordes desperate to get out of dystopic hell holes like Amsterdam and Brussels for the safety and stability of Detroit, Michigan or Dayton Ohio.
ReplyDeleteI want to do what I can to help them get out from under the jackboot of the ten month work-year...
to be fair (and I don't recall why I ever wanted to be fair), steyn did leave Canada for America.
ReplyDeleteKind of a pilot project, one could say.
...steyn did leave Canada for America.
ReplyDeleteCan we send him back?
Shirley there must be a hungry moose somewhere...
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maybe we should try for a package deal:
ReplyDeleteSteyn and Adam Yoshida for Lifeson, Lee an Peart; or maybe that hawt news reader...
The US already can continue to tax people who give up their US citizenship, if the powers that be determine that the renunciation was done for tax avoidance purposes. Plus, now that Swiss banks have been forced to open their books to the IRS and the German tax authorities, those asset can't be as easily hidden. In other words, it doesn't matter where you live or bank, your home country can still get taxes from you.
ReplyDeleteThe US, though, is clutchier than most countries over its former citizens. There was a pretty funny article in Harper's a few years ago about how hard it is to renounce your citizenship. The Germans and Japanese might be able to get away with leaving the old folks to eat cat food.
ReplyDeleteSteyn and Adam Yoshida for Lifeson, Lee an Peart
ReplyDeleteNot without a proviso that Peart not pen any more Randroid lyrics for Erick bin Erick to quote as though they were The Republic.
That would be perful.
Hee hee.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of cat food, here's what my alter ego had to say recently:
http://www.box.net/shared/patrfvm4up