Billy Beck: The Hive Of The Mandarins

From Billy Beck:

"Another ten years of this, and large tracts of America will be Third World. Not Somalia-scale Third World, but certainly the more decrepit parts of Latin America. There will still be men with motorcades, but they’ll have heavier security and the compounds they shuttle between will be more heavily protected. For them and their cronies, the guys plugged in, the guys who still know who to call to figure out a workaround through the bureaucratic sclerosis, life will be manageable, and they’ll still be wondering why you loser schlubs are forever whining about gas prices, and electricity prices, and food prices."

(Mark Steyn)

"Ten years". In the span of history, it's the breadth of a single sigh. >snap< It goes by just like that.

What you have now are not the architects of this tottering Gothicity, but rather the blind termites who've grown up in its walls, floors, chairs, and bullet-proof glass, eating their daily ways through it all as if it simply grew there out of the forest before they were hatched. Not knowing or caring of its source, they just eat where they live, and react with hive-instinct at every effort to inhibit their pestilence upon human life.

There will be "another ten years of this", because there is almost no serious philosophical understanding of any of it, and that's why there can be no serious political action on it: politics is a logically derivative branch of philosophy, and principles will always have their way.