Originally posted by Solidec
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http://www.howitends.co.uk/
Read each and every section, preferably in work time. Yes, you can pick apart certain points, but on the whole it's a superb piece of doom.
It covers all the usual guff e.g. as well as offshoring of everything to China and India, the fact growth has been an illusion based on debt, and even North sea oil and gas (which got us through the 80s) is running out, blah, blah.
This is from the section on the role of women:
The apparent solution to the pension crisis is to have more people in the working population. The problem with this argument is that most of the children that are born today will make little or no contribution to the Exchequer. The type of women who has always lived off the State will continue to bear children at the same high rate. It is those who have the inbuilt desire to ensure that their children are well cared for that have restricted their fecundity and it is these children that society needs.
Most of the population take out more than they put in. What the country needs is a lot of intelligent highly motivated people. Unfortunately the economic realities of the last thirty years has seen a dramatic reduction in the number of intelligent motivated people who are available to keep society moving forward. It is a simple matter of biology. An intelligent educated woman today will tend to have her children in her mid 30's and will usually have one or at the most two children. Assuming that her children behave in the same way then her genes will be passed on three times in a century. In other words her genes will pass into 2 x 2 x 2 or 8 offspring. A less gifted woman will have say four children and start bearing before the age of twenty. In a century her genes will be passed on 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 times or 256 times. This gives a ratio of 1:32. Even if this ratio is incorrect and the figure is in fact 1:10 the prognosis for the future is not good. Another serious factor is the number of intelligent educated women who will pass the age of 40 without having children. Never in the history of mankind has so much good genetic material been lost to society. Any biological system that dilutes its gene pool in this way will fail within a few generations. The long-term consequences of having so many intelligent women who are not producing children or who are producing only one or two very late in their lives has yet to be fully considered. The consequence of this has to be very serious. The process has already started to have an impact on the functioning of society which is one of the reasons why the government has established skilled migrant programmes.
This factor also explains some of the inexorable rise in crime. The number of less gifted children is rising every year. Man evolved as a hunter gatherer. The philosophy of such a life style is you find something that you want and you take it. Many of the less able young people in society are reverting to the role of hunter gatherer. They have been told that they will have a good life with easy access to consumer goods. They will not be able to legitimately access sufficient money to purchase these goods. They have no other way to obtain them other than to steal. Even though this current recession has only just started the number of burglaries is already rising. As the economy winds down over the next thirty years so the level of crime will rise. Living in a country that is in decline will not be pleasant for the young and there will be considerable resentment as they are forced to remain in a juvenile form. Although it has not been spelt out to them most young people know that they have no real future and that many of the opportunities that their parents had will not be available to them.
Most of the population take out more than they put in. What the country needs is a lot of intelligent highly motivated people. Unfortunately the economic realities of the last thirty years has seen a dramatic reduction in the number of intelligent motivated people who are available to keep society moving forward. It is a simple matter of biology. An intelligent educated woman today will tend to have her children in her mid 30's and will usually have one or at the most two children. Assuming that her children behave in the same way then her genes will be passed on three times in a century. In other words her genes will pass into 2 x 2 x 2 or 8 offspring. A less gifted woman will have say four children and start bearing before the age of twenty. In a century her genes will be passed on 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 times or 256 times. This gives a ratio of 1:32. Even if this ratio is incorrect and the figure is in fact 1:10 the prognosis for the future is not good. Another serious factor is the number of intelligent educated women who will pass the age of 40 without having children. Never in the history of mankind has so much good genetic material been lost to society. Any biological system that dilutes its gene pool in this way will fail within a few generations. The long-term consequences of having so many intelligent women who are not producing children or who are producing only one or two very late in their lives has yet to be fully considered. The consequence of this has to be very serious. The process has already started to have an impact on the functioning of society which is one of the reasons why the government has established skilled migrant programmes.
This factor also explains some of the inexorable rise in crime. The number of less gifted children is rising every year. Man evolved as a hunter gatherer. The philosophy of such a life style is you find something that you want and you take it. Many of the less able young people in society are reverting to the role of hunter gatherer. They have been told that they will have a good life with easy access to consumer goods. They will not be able to legitimately access sufficient money to purchase these goods. They have no other way to obtain them other than to steal. Even though this current recession has only just started the number of burglaries is already rising. As the economy winds down over the next thirty years so the level of crime will rise. Living in a country that is in decline will not be pleasant for the young and there will be considerable resentment as they are forced to remain in a juvenile form. Although it has not been spelt out to them most young people know that they have no real future and that many of the opportunities that their parents had will not be available to them.
a) most of the degrees are completely worthless and useless
b) there aren't enough jobs for the graduates anyway, so all they have done is defer showing up on the unemployment figures and manage to get into a load of debt for themselves.
Good blog here as well
http://cynicuseconomicus.blogspot.co...l-of-west.html
As for what to do, it seems obvious if you want to stay in Britain then your goal should be to own a place in the countryside free and clear of debt with a bit of land and not in close proximity to any cities, or places with large council estates.
Eventually the police will only be able to control certain areas, and other areas will end up like the scenes of Bexhill-on-Sea in Children of Men (e.g. even worse than Barking is now).
Right up until that point a Labour government would be more worried about diversity training or solving the Third World debt problems, or funding the Indian space programme while our own national debt will dwarf anyone apart from the USA.
Of course all of the above might not happen, Margaret Beckett thinks houses are going to start going up again next year and everything will be just fine and dandy.
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