The View From Olympus: The Crying Child
In its quest to swamp native-born Americans in a sea of third world immigrants, the Left last week deployed one of its most powerful weapons: a crying child. You have all seen the photo: the illegal immigrant, the Border Patrol officer and the small child bawling. At that sight, we are all supposed to dissolve into tears ourselves and do something, anything so the child does not cry.
This is the sort of drivel one gets in a feminized society. Facts and reason are to yield to feelings. It matters not that this day and every day somewhere around a billion children cry. If thirty seconds later the officer handed the brat a sucker and the tears turned to smiles, there was no picture of that. A feminized society indulges in a culture of emotion, of pathos, of weakness.
In a world of Fourth Generation war, such societies will not survive. While most people think of the 4GW threat in terms of terrorism, that is a very small threat compared to the threat of invasion by immigration. We would do well to remember that the barbarians who overwhelmed and destroyed the Roman Empire were immigrants. With the exception of the Vandals, most of them did not come to destroy the Empire. They were trying to move in and enjoy its benefits. But they came in such numbers that Rome was overwhelmed.
The 21st century is likely to see similar flows of whole peoples. A combination of climate change, state collapse, and famine will see not millions, but tens of millions and hundreds of millions of refugees. Few are going to flee to India or Africa. They will head to places where life is good, Europe and North America. Unless we are prepared to do whatever is necessary to keep them out, we, like Rome, will be swamped, and all will end up in a new Dark Age. The immigrants may be seeking our way of life, but their numbers will be such that they will turn us into whatever they are fleeing. This has already happened along much of our southern border.
President Trump’s policy of separating children from their families was a disincentive for illegal immigrants to come here. We need every such disincentive we can devise. If the policy seemed cruel—again, to a feminized society—it was very moderate compared to what the U.S. and Europe will eventually have to do to stem the human tide. When most of a flooded Bangladesh boards a fleet of rust bucket ships and heads for Europe, Europe will either have to sink the ships or watch The Camp of the Saints scenario play out. We will need, along with our southern border, not a wall but something like the old East-West German border. Anyone who tries to cross dies.
That is, after all, what borders meant well up into the post-World War II era. Border patrols did not arrest people trying to cross illegally. They shot them.
A practical measure we need to revive immediately is to prohibit all entry to anyone without prior approval, including asylum-seekers. In the case of legitimate travel, this means bringing back visas. If we are talking about immigrants, we should return to the policy we followed from 1920 until the 1960s. Anyone wishing to immigrate into the United States had to be examined, tested, and pre-approved, under a quota system and with an American citizen’s sponsorship. The sponsor was required to take responsibility for the new immigrant, which meant helping them find a place to live and a job. They weren’t just dumped on the American taxpayer.
A feminized society can do none of these things because, well, a child might cry. Someone might feel bad. To America’s good fortune, feminization and the broader cultural Marxism into which feminism has been subsumed in recent decades is largely confined to the coastal elites. Heartland Americans, men and women, know the world is a tough place. A culture of sentiment and of weakness does not appeal to them. They know their children and grandchildren will pay the price if we leave the floodgates open. And, as President Trump’s election showed, the Heartland is rising as the coastal elites, sobbing all the way, lose their grips. Heartland people’s answer to a crying child is the one their parents gave them: “Keep it up and I’ll give you something to cry about.” Starting with getting sent home.
Interested in what Fourth Generation war in America might look like? Read Thomas Hobbes’ new future history, Victoria.