[NNWM] New Material
Nov. 7th, 2004 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldRight here. And no, I've not done the word count.
In this particular setting, the United States is in a perfect situation to experience the generic panic over demographic decline that has become the trend of late: no baby boom, no significant foreign immigration, deteriorating living standards. The rest of the world remains more-or-less demographically vibrant, or at least untroubled by fears of general population replacement. (The Bulgarian gastarbeiter of Germany and the growing Angolan community of metropolitan Brazil don't exactly pose serious threats. The East Africans of Egypt, now, threaten to Christianize and Africanize that ancient Muslim land.)
Owing to a variety of internal factors, the United States lacks this sort of security. I said elsewhere that it can be thought of as entering a period of decline and chaos comparable to that of Argentina in the 1970s. Adfd to this more than a touch of Yugoslavia in the 1980s.
Comments, as always, are more than welcome.
In this particular setting, the United States is in a perfect situation to experience the generic panic over demographic decline that has become the trend of late: no baby boom, no significant foreign immigration, deteriorating living standards. The rest of the world remains more-or-less demographically vibrant, or at least untroubled by fears of general population replacement. (The Bulgarian gastarbeiter of Germany and the growing Angolan community of metropolitan Brazil don't exactly pose serious threats. The East Africans of Egypt, now, threaten to Christianize and Africanize that ancient Muslim land.)
Owing to a variety of internal factors, the United States lacks this sort of security. I said elsewhere that it can be thought of as entering a period of decline and chaos comparable to that of Argentina in the 1970s. Adfd to this more than a touch of Yugoslavia in the 1980s.
Comments, as always, are more than welcome.
