The Question of Immigration

This goes to what I previously wrote. Our society has lost its guidelines, its morals, its sanity. This has resulted it a tremendous lowering of the actual standards required for a society to function well. It shows.

Drastically declining education standards have necessarily resulted in a substantial decline in the expertise needed for many positions in a modern society. 

Plummeting morals have resulted in sky-high illegitimacy, which results in higher crime, higher welfare, higher resentment, higher illiteracy and higher mental problems across the board. 

Both have led to people's inability to discern reality from fantasy, or to the outright denial of reality. This leads to a society becoming unhinged and unable to address the problems which all communities face. In fact, the denial of reality has dramatically increased the number of problems which society has to face, by the creation and promotion of "problems" which didn't exist before, or had been contained by the developed customs of sane societies for centuries. 

With an ever increasing incompetent and detached populous, one can expect for more unqualified and malevolent characters to fill the void and take over the institutions which support a society.  Unfortunately, these types will have also been products of the declining community as regards education and morals. Perhaps they will be even worse. Whatever the case, stupid people in the positions of power across a country will take the wrong lessons from history, science and the study of human nature. Both the well-meaning, but merely incompetent, and the crooks amongst them will substantially overestimate their abilities. Both will (are) lead (ing) us to perdition and are too oblivious to notice this.  

This will (is) result(ing) in a noticeable general decline of the West. We are seeing it very clearly now. This is not only apparent to us in our own countries. Everyone else around the world, not living in the West, is seeing it as well. 

Unfortunately, but ironically, I am beginning to believe the only way to stop this decline will be a major defeat overseas. I believe only a substantial decline in our power, relative to other nations, will get our attention. Only a huge shock to the globalist system, which we have allowed to grasp so much power and money, will have any chance to wake up Americans. I see that defeat developing, because the leftists in our midst have been working to destroy the country for a long time. And they have been assisted, knowingly or not, by the money-grabbing right. But I think the loss of America's standing, the shock which is coming our way, will surprise them. It will wake up, maybe even stir up Americans. Not defeat them.  

A good analysis of the S&G but missing a crucial element. Both were brought up in Jewish homes just after WWII. The Sounds of silence touches S&G Jewishness in a strange manner. There is a tradition among the Hasids of Eastern Europe of raising children in silence, especially those who have demonstrated intellectual accomplishments. A father recognizing his son(s) may be intellectually superior to their peers will after about age 6 only have the most necessary conversations with his son. This is not to inflict pain, although it does, but to teach the son to better regard his and others soul. I don't know if either of the two was raised in this manner, but there is a very Jewish cry of pain in the Sounds of Silence, surely both knew what they were talking about. 

That's an interesting perspective. No doubt there's an element here that would be hard for me to understand. Here's the full lyrics:



I don't consider this song overly important. But clearly "silence" in this context is not a good thing. It does seem to mean a lack of connection, the dullness of unawareness. And maybe that unique Jewish context.

I guess the song means something to me because our culture, for all intents and purposes, is worshiping the Golden Calf. The lyric "the neon god they made" certainly reminded me of that.

Certainly Psalm 46:10 mentions an idea of silence that is (or was) more resonant to philosophical, emotional, psychological, and/or religions connotations in the sphere of non-materialist/non-atheist culture: Be still, and know that I am God

In modern language you might write is as: Turn off your phone. And you're not the center of the universe, Snowflake.

The Biblical original is more concise. But once in a while you do have to interpret things for a modern oddience.

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Abso-friggin'-lutely. And are you saying (Googled on "transgender") that perhaps the following is indicative of the inability (or unwillingness) to discern reality?

I agree, yet Simon was growing as a song writer. Here, in my opinion, is an even better song with very tight lyrics. No vague verses with a number of possible interpretations. Simon hits the listener with a hammer. I loved this song when it came out. I must have been 11 or 12 years old. 

Yes, great song...and lyrics.

A winter's day
In a deep and dark December

I am alone
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow
I am a rock I am an island

I've built walls
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain
I am a rock I am an island

Don't talk of love
Well I've heard the word before
It's sleeping in my memory
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died
If I never loved I never would have cried
I am a rock I am an island

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock I am an island

And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries

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In a Wiki article, Simon explains:



Give that guy special marks for his honesty, at least regarding this.

Having read at least half of his Wiki page, what a momentous career. He packed a lot in. Astounding, really.

That is stupid beyond my powers of description. But I'll try.
Since the beginning of time, some people have had to work harder than other people to achieve success of one kind or another. It is called "trying to better oneself through extra effort." Not only can one improve in the specific area one is addressing, but a couple of additional gains might be gained, e.g. learning the virtue of hard work and that everything in life is not easy. This is normally part of the maturation process, but our sociopathic overlords want a nation of infants.  

Two more observations.

1. Any business venture which turned out such a defective and deficient product as that produced by our public-education system, would close in a month. I am convinced that one of the main reasons this has not happened is that the public-school system is, to a very degree, a national baby-sitting service. The powers-that-be wanted to socialize the cost of child care so they could get more cheap labor in the work force. industry. 

2. One might reasonably posit that the real intent of these demons is to keep "people of color" (read blacks) so ignorant as to keep them on the modern plantation. 

Just what we need, more Muslims (potentially terrorist plants) flooding our country. Haley has committed Seppuku with this position.

Let's have more Palestinian refugees  

This title of an article at Weltwoche.ch sums up why the left is so bent on flooding the West with refugees.

Die Linke braucht «Flüchtlinge»: Nachdem der Kapitalismus die Proletarier mit Wohlstand ausgestattet hatte, ging die Linke auf die Suche nach neuen Proletariern und wurde in fernen Ländern fündig

translation

The Left needs "refugees": After capitalism brought prosperity to the proletarians, the Left searched for new proletarians and found them in far-away lands.

These bastards will never give up.