Trying to read a scientific paper, but too tired to realize I’m too tired to read it, so keep stumbling over the first few sentences and realizing they are easy but still unable to comprehend them.

Don’t worry, I broke out of that time loop.

I think.

One huge advantage the US has is that no matter what, it won’t face overwhelming waves of Muslim immigration any time soon.

This is going to doom much of Europe and by 2050 due to that and climate change, it’ll no longer be economically competitive and will be mostly a backwater again. Anyone able to flee will have fled.

While the conservative “Eurabia” wil not quite be the case, countries that have allowed high levels of Muslim immigration are going to have absolutely huge problems. Unmanageable ones that will transform and destroy most of their current societal arrangements.

The US’s primary immigration pressure is from people with a mostly-similar culture (Mexico) and so will face no such problems, really.

My grandfather on my mother’s side was also a member of the last generation of traditional sharecroppers. He grew up just outside of Valdosta, Georgia.

He rarely talked about that life or his experiences because most of it I think was so horrible. He did describe to me once how he’d wake up at 5 AM every day, seven days a week, to tend to the animals and to do his chores. Amazing he even graduated high school with that sort of burden.

The post talks about the neo-feudalistic sharecropping economy that is returning. Looking back at history, though, the amount of personal freedom enjoyed by certain swathes of people in Western Europe and the US for a period of time is anomalous.

Feudalism and oligarchs in control seems to be the way humans operate. Suspect the remainder of human history will look that way, too.