Europe is finished
Posted on | August 30, 2009 | 8 Comments
Europe is Finished, Predicts Mark Steyn
[NY Sun title: “Steyn’s New Book Combines Humor, Accuracy, Depth”]
Mark Steyn, political columnist and cultural critic, has written a remarkable book, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (Regnery). He combines several virtues uncommonly found together – humor, accurate reportage, and deep thinking – then applies these to what is arguably the most consequential issue of our time: the Islamist threat to the West.
Mr. Steyn offers a devastating thesis but presents it in bits and pieces, so I shall pull it together here.
He begins with the legacy of two totalitarianisms. Traumatized by the electoral appeal of fascism, post-World War II European states were constructed in a top-down manner “so as to insulate almost entirely the political class from populist pressures.” As a result, the establishment has “come to regard the electorate as children.”
Second, the Soviet menace during the cold war prompted American leaders, impatient with Europe’s (and Canada’s) weak responses, effectively to take over their defense. This benign and far-sighted policy led to victory by 1991, but it also had the unintended and less salutary side-effect of freeing up Europe’s funds to build a welfare state. This welfare state had several malign implications.
The nanny state infantilized Europeans, making them worry about such pseudo-issues as climate change, while feminizing the males. It also neutered them, annexing “most of the core functions of adulthood,” starting with the instinct to breed. From about 1980, birth rates plummeted, leaving an inadequate base for today’s workers to receive their pensions.
Structured on a pay-as-you-go basis, it amounted to an inter-generational Ponzi scheme, where today’s workers depend on their children for their pensions. The demographic collapse meant that the indigenous peoples of countries like Russia, Italy, and Spain are at the start of a population death spiral.
It led to a collapse of confidence that in turn bred “civilizational exhaustion,” leaving Europeans unprepared to fight for their ways. To keep the economic machine running meant accepting foreign workers. Rather than execute a long-term plan to prepare for the many millions of immigrants needed, Europe’s elites punted, welcoming almost anyone who turned up. By virtue of geographic proximity, demographic overdrive, and a crisis-prone environment, “Islam is now the principal supplier of new Europeans,” Mr. Steyn writes.
Mark Steyn, author of “America Alone.”
Arriving at a time of demographic, political, and cultural weakness, Muslims are profoundly changing Europe. “Islam has youth and will, Europe has age and welfare.” Put differently, “Pre-modern Islam beats post-modern Christianity.” Much of the Western world, Mr. Steyn flat-out predicts, “will not survive the twenty-first century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most European countries.” With even more drama, he adds that “it’s the end of the world as we know it.”
(In contrast, I believe that Europe still has time to avoid this fate.)
America Alone deals at length with what Mr. Steyn calls “the larger forces at play in the developed world that have left Europe too enfeebled to resist its remorseless transformation into Eurabia.” Europe’s successor population is already in place and “the only question is how bloody the transfer of real estate will be.” He interprets the Madrid and London bombings, as well as the murder of Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam, as opening shots in Europe’s civil war and states, “Europe is the colony now.”
The title America Alone refers to Mr. Steyn’s expectation that the United States – with its “relatively healthy demographic profile” – will emerge as the lonely survivor of this crucible. “Europe is dying and America isn’t.” Therefore, “the Continent is up for grabs in a way that America isn’t.” Mr. Steyn’s target audience is primarily American: watch out, he is saying, or the same will happen to you.
Pared to its essentials, he counsels two things: First, avoid the “bloated European welfare systems,” declare them no less than a national security threat, shrink the state, and emphasize the virtues of self-reliance and individual innovation. Second, avoid “imperial understretch,” don’t “hunker down in Fortress America” but destroy the ideology of radical Islam, help reform Islam, and expand Western civilization to new places. Only if Americans “can summon the will to shape at least part of the emerging world” will they have enough company to soldier on. Failing that, expect a “new Dark Ages … a planet on which much of the map is re-primitivized.”
Big question: When Muslims rule the Earth, will they be capable to build civilization? Or will their rule only be one of numbers?
Wake up EUROPE if you wish to retain your culture.
https://www.danielpipes.org/4121/europe-is-finished-predicts-mark-steyn#latest
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August 30th, 2009 @ 11:48 am
Muslims are brainwashed by their horrifically unholy book the Koran and their bloodthirsty imams that their false pagan moon “god” rock Allah commands that Muslims must convert Infidels to Islam or tax them as second class citizens or kill them.
These are the Muslims only options when dealing with non-Muslims.
The Muslim “prophet” Mohammed was a pedophile and is considered by Muslims to be a perfect man.
And Muslims are stupid enough to believe that garbage.
August 30th, 2009 @ 4:21 pm
Mark is wrong…America is not alone…America is on the same boat with Europe…Muslim infiltration is alive and well in America…and Canada…and the countries south of the border….
August 30th, 2009 @ 4:59 pm
Mark Steyn, being a Canadian, is a loyal subject of her Royal Britannic Majesty. He is not an American patriot except inasmuch that Canada is one of the Americas, and citizens of the US of A tend to claim the title of American as exclusively their own when it really is not.
What he is, is a wannabe elitist who has been snubbed by the elite, not being to the manor born you understand, and therefore, since he is a clever boy, gets back at them by roasting them in their own juices. If you want the dirt on the Western elitist mentality then for sure, Mr. Steyn is the boy for you as he knows all about it, it being his desired world as it were. Much like Coulter is the gal for you if you want the dirt on Democrats she dislikes – but don’t hold your breath for dirt on equally dirty Republicans.
What he really is, is an ex-DJ. His idols are those fabled stars of stage and screen who while may be drunken, besotted, perverts still exude that aurora of fame that he so desperately lusts after.
His awakening as to the plight of Europe occurred a few years ago when, for some reason Freud would probably understand, his attention was caught by news reports that towns in former East Germany were having problems with their sewage systems because their populations had diminished to the point to where their usage of this most basic infra-structure had fallen below necessary flow requirements. This set him off on his crusade to awaken the world to the collapse of European populations – and libidos as well as other things, I imagine.
Back then he hadn’t caught on to the economics behind population movements – he was apparently too enthralled with thoughts of diminishing bowl movements. But then what do you expect from a Canadian ex-DJ who desperately needs something to justify his rising reputation as a world class spokesman for the American Conservative Class? Now he seems to have figured out the welfare state and the perils of uncontrolled immigration – perhaps while meditating on a porcelain throne about fulfilling his personal duty to keep American Culture and Society alive he read some of my earlier critiques…
The main point here is that Mr. Steyn should never be confused with someone who is a true American patriot, and while some of the stuff he writes sounds very good, you have to look for the worm in the apple because it will be there as he isn’t who he pretends to be – just the opposite. He is of the same stuff as Tom ‘Mr. Philadelphia’ Hanks – you know, the voice of the Greatest Generation. smoke and mirrors – dolts and moles – baffle them with brilliance and if you can’t do that then do what Mr. Steyn does….
August 30th, 2009 @ 7:03 pm
“destroy the ideology of radical islam, help reform islam”
BALDERDASH.
There is no radical islam, only islam. There is no reform of islam, islam is all or nothing or mukawama. Either they subjugate and destroy us,visa versa or they continue to try until one or the other fails. I have no confidence or optimism in the west.
August 31st, 2009 @ 2:07 am
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“Faithfreedom.org echoes the voice of ex-Muslims who want to stop the spread of Islam, expose its violent nature, and help Muslims to understand it and leave it. We believe in the oneness of humanity and oppose Islam for inciting hatred against non Muslims. Muhammad instructed his followers to conquer the world by the sword and to rule it with terror. We are determined to not let that happen.”
August 31st, 2009 @ 2:08 am
https://www.faithfreedom.org/
Faithfreedom.org echoes the voice of ex-Muslims who want to stop the spread of Islam, expose its violent nature, and help Muslims to understand it and leave it. We believe in the oneness of humanity and oppose Islam for inciting hatred against non Muslims. Muhammad instructed his follower to conquer the world by the sword and to rule it with terror. We are determined to not let that happen.
August 31st, 2009 @ 2:08 am
https://www.faithfreedomDOTorg/
Faithfreedom.org echoes the voice of ex-Muslims who want to stop the spread of Islam, expose its violent nature, and help Muslims to understand it and leave it. We believe in the oneness of humanity and oppose Islam for inciting hatred against non Muslims. Muhammad instructed his follower to conquer the world by the sword and to rule it with terror. We are determined to not let that happen.
August 31st, 2009 @ 2:09 am
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Faithfreedom.org echoes the voice of ex-Muslims who want to stop the spread of Islam, expose its violent nature, and help Muslims to understand it and leave it. We believe in the oneness of humanity and oppose Islam for inciting hatred against non Muslims. Muhammad instructed his follower to conquer the world by the sword and to rule it with terror. We are determined to not let that happen.