Motus Mentis

In my previous post I expressed qualified approval for Tuesday’s State of the Union address. Some commenters took me to task for this, because hey, we’re still doomed.

They’re right, we probably are. And make no mistake, there’s plenty for a conservative, let alone a reactionary, not to like about Donald Trump, and about the speech he gave. In particular, Mr. Trump had in the past expressed serious concerns about the flood of cheap foreign labor that comes in under the H-1B visa program, and in the speech he seemed not just willing, but eager, to flood the country with more imported labor. (And he checked off some other items on the Democrat wish-list as well, such as Federally sponsored family leave, massive infrastructure projects, and so forth.)

There is a very good chance that we have already passed the demographic tipping point in America. Please read two of my older posts: Simple Common Sense About Diversity And Multiculturalism, and The Narrowing Effect Of Diversity to understand why I think the effects of too-rapid and too-diverse immigration are both irreversible and fatal. (You might also read Culture And Metaculture, while you’re at it.)

In 2015 I wrote:

All of the erosive forces at work here — demographic displacement by poorly assimilated immigrants, low birthrates among cognitive elites, multiculturalism, galloping secularism, centralization of Federal power at the expense of local government, anti-traditionalism, hedonistic apathy, instutionalized disparagement of America’s history, mission, cultural heritage, and mythos, and behind it all the universal acid of radical doubt that is the “poison pill” of the Enlightenment itself — all of these things attack and corrode the horizontal ligatures of American civil society, leaving behind only an atomized population with no binding affinities save their vertical dependence upon a Federal leviathan that is, increasingly, the source of all guidance and blessings.

What this means is that as these forces do their work, they weaken at every point our society’s structural integrity — even as the disintegrative influences, particularly the destructive action of demographic replacement, intensify. It follows naturally, then, that the pace of decay accelerates.

In passing, we should note also that this horizontal “unbinding” was, a century ago, the precursor of Fascism. The ancient symbol of the Fasces, from which the movement took its name, is a bundle of wooden rods, individually weak, but lashed together with an external binding. It is the perfect symbol for a society that has lost its organic, endogenous coherence, and so must be united by an artificial and external power.

So, yeah, I get it. Critics of multiculturalism used to say that a nation had to be something more than “a border with an economy”, and they were right. Now one of our two dominant political parties doesn’t even want a border, and an awful lot of people roosting within what used to be our borders — quite likely a popular-vote majority — seem to agree. The ones who don’t agree are increasingly silenced, reviled, denounced, shunned, ostracized, and insulted. They are also, in large part, the people who build and maintain the nation’s physical infrastructure, defend its security, and grow and distribute its food — and they are heavily armed.

The state of the Union is, in fact, very worrisome indeed, and anyone who thinks I don’t know this hasn’t been reading this blog for very long. That I took a moment’s pleasure in watching Donald Trump stick his thumb in a few well-deserving eyes on Tuesday, or stir a few nostalgic chords in the heart of an aging American who remembers when there was still hope for this nation, doesn’t change any of that.

OK then: yes, things look bad, and Donald Trump isn’t going to save us.

Any suggestions? I’m all ears.

Bueller?

Bueller?