Much food for thought here, an excellent piece of writing. I have always thought professional sports functioned as another form of propaganda for the fake polis. People root for teams often owned by foreigners or people who don’t reside in the same state. The team has players who didn’t grow up in the area and have no particular ties to the geographical region. It’s really a faux loyalty to a corporation. They extract wealth from the people by demanding billions of dollars for stadiums or else they will move to another locale. Truly this is a modern leviathan that provides a false sense of community.
Thanks! Yeah, lotta complex situations and edge cases out there. And lots of great non-White people, obviously. But we all have to have a homeland. This is the only way anyone has a unique culture.
I'm old enough to remember when discrimination, bigotry, bias and racism were completely different things. My parents never used the term racism because that's not what they faced, they faced xenophobia. For one, racism used to narrowly refer to anti black discrimination and bias which had a unique dynamic because black people have been here for hundreds of years.
And my parents always reminded me of that, like we can go back, black people can't so it's not really racism. Black people are legitimately *stuck*.
Xenophobia wasn't considered racism because when I was younger, the most recently remembered wave of immigration was from Southern and Eastern Europe and people would even complain that foreigners were racist on some level. Then there was the wave from Latin America in the 1950s but Mexico is a very similar to culture to the US on some level. They're even called the United States of Mexico.
Now, being a Chinese immigrant (Sciurus vulgaris sinensis, but with grey fur so I pass as a small local) and my parents came in 1979, the scale of the new immigration is completely different because you can't separate racism from xenophobia. Like you can't separate the xenophobia from the Islamophobia from the racism so people mash it all up together and call it all racism. But I think that once we separate the streams it's just going to be a better way for arguing altogether.
I'm not sure what you mean by national divorce. I'm more for a Dubai Model for "free cities" similar to what China does with Hong Kong. We can have NYC, LA, the Bay Area and those can be a mass immigration zone similar to Dubai. The rest of the country would have more conservative immigration policies.
Free cities is part of what I imagine will happen in the decentralization of the next 50 years. My guess is the map of North America circa 2100 will look more like the map of the Holy Roman Empire circa 1500 than the current map.
Most likely people will still call it the "United States" the same way people were talking about the Roman Empire in the west, long after it has ceased to have any political meaning.
The age of centralization seems to be coming to a close. Possible that Trump and maybe his successor pull a sort of Justinian and give the empire a little more life, but I don't see them changing the overall trajectory. And IMHO, this is a White Pill.
I’d look at the map before entertaining the peace pipe dream of National Divorce. No competent people or government would accept anything less than ocean to ocean and geography doesn’t negotiate. The winner takes it all- they must.
Much food for thought here, an excellent piece of writing. I have always thought professional sports functioned as another form of propaganda for the fake polis. People root for teams often owned by foreigners or people who don’t reside in the same state. The team has players who didn’t grow up in the area and have no particular ties to the geographical region. It’s really a faux loyalty to a corporation. They extract wealth from the people by demanding billions of dollars for stadiums or else they will move to another locale. Truly this is a modern leviathan that provides a false sense of community.
Reading this while being a white man with mixed-race parents in a third world country made me feel a confusing set of emotions.
Great writing by the way. You're good.
Thanks! Yeah, lotta complex situations and edge cases out there. And lots of great non-White people, obviously. But we all have to have a homeland. This is the only way anyone has a unique culture.
I'm old enough to remember when discrimination, bigotry, bias and racism were completely different things. My parents never used the term racism because that's not what they faced, they faced xenophobia. For one, racism used to narrowly refer to anti black discrimination and bias which had a unique dynamic because black people have been here for hundreds of years.
And my parents always reminded me of that, like we can go back, black people can't so it's not really racism. Black people are legitimately *stuck*.
Xenophobia wasn't considered racism because when I was younger, the most recently remembered wave of immigration was from Southern and Eastern Europe and people would even complain that foreigners were racist on some level. Then there was the wave from Latin America in the 1950s but Mexico is a very similar to culture to the US on some level. They're even called the United States of Mexico.
Now, being a Chinese immigrant (Sciurus vulgaris sinensis, but with grey fur so I pass as a small local) and my parents came in 1979, the scale of the new immigration is completely different because you can't separate racism from xenophobia. Like you can't separate the xenophobia from the Islamophobia from the racism so people mash it all up together and call it all racism. But I think that once we separate the streams it's just going to be a better way for arguing altogether.
I'm not sure what you mean by national divorce. I'm more for a Dubai Model for "free cities" similar to what China does with Hong Kong. We can have NYC, LA, the Bay Area and those can be a mass immigration zone similar to Dubai. The rest of the country would have more conservative immigration policies.
Free cities is part of what I imagine will happen in the decentralization of the next 50 years. My guess is the map of North America circa 2100 will look more like the map of the Holy Roman Empire circa 1500 than the current map.
Most likely people will still call it the "United States" the same way people were talking about the Roman Empire in the west, long after it has ceased to have any political meaning.
Kulak wrote an interesting piece on this a while back: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/after-the-state-the-coming-of-neo
The age of centralization seems to be coming to a close. Possible that Trump and maybe his successor pull a sort of Justinian and give the empire a little more life, but I don't see them changing the overall trajectory. And IMHO, this is a White Pill.
I’d look at the map before entertaining the peace pipe dream of National Divorce. No competent people or government would accept anything less than ocean to ocean and geography doesn’t negotiate. The winner takes it all- they must.
Better decide to win.