Decline and fall (was Re: Canada)

[valis <valis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis R Redmond concluded:
> It's like watching the Roman provinces going belly-up, one by one, only
> starring Japan and Central Europe as the heathen MicroGoths who are just
> beginning to grasp that the masters are now the servants. Let's just hope
> they show us more mercy than we've shown to Latin America.

Money is not the whole story.  Never was.
Indeed, why should the home of Beavis and Butthead expect any leniency?
That would be just another symptom of its cultural inferiority.

One night in the early Sixties I lay on an upper bunk in a Dutch youth
hostel listening to utter contempt being heaped upon "the Jeezuzz country"
through a whole evening in at least four languages.  Both vilifiers and
targets were numerical fringe elements then; now each is fleshed out.
We have fallen beneath a certain critical threshold here and are now
producing more brute animals than people.

There are moments when I feel that the highest expression of patriotism
due America is the wish for its quick and merciful death, since it would
resist revolution with all the manic strength of its ignorance and guilt.

                                                                   valis