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Subhash Kak
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Migrant caravan in Mexico on way to US border
According to the 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report, more than 650,000 people in the US are homeless, a 12% increase from 2022. A lot of people can’t therefore understand why America has virtually opened its borders. It is estimated that nearly four million illegals have crossed into the United States since Joe Biden took office.
There is increasing inequality in the US and huge economic headwinds for the middle class. Over one hundred thousand people are dying of drug overdose. Crime in the cities is rampant and leaders seem to have given up on doing anything about the homelessness issue.
Drug overdose deaths in US
The US education system cannot inspire students to get into STEM subjects, so it increasingly depends on Indians and Chinese for science, computer, and finance sectors, which eventually takes them to lucrative tech jobs. There is no attempt to reform the education sector, because the status quo is convenient.
Shrinking populations
Fertility, which is expected number of children born to a woman, is falling rapidly across the world. The fertility rate should be about 2.1 for the population to remain constant, but in South Korea it is close to 0.7; in Japan, 1.1; in China, 1.2; in most of Eastern Europe, 1.3; and in India, about 2.0. At this time, it is significantly above 2.1 only in the Middle East and Africa.
The rate of growth of populations across the world is shrinking and the populations have begun to fall in many countries. Before a kind of a balance is reached, people from higher fertility areas will relocate to countries where populations are decreasing.
Most immigrants streaming into Europe are from vastly different cultures, so assimilation appears to be an unsurmountable challenge. As ethnic tensions rise, it is possible that many democracies will be replaced by authoritarian governments.
The number of jobs for humans will decrease because of robots and AI technologies. Perhaps, useful jobs will be able to support a billion people, and not the current 7 or 8 billion. It is hard to see how thee decrease of the world population can be managed in a manner that minimizes social costs and prevents wars.
In richer countries, large segments of the population, living on dole or UBI (universal basic income), will be mired in hopelessness, with their senses dulled by mind-altering drugs, and movies. Life in childless communities will feel hollow.
If nothing changes, Western nations with closed borders will slide into second tier economies. China and India will both overtake the US in GDP as in the graph from Goldman Sachs shown below. In PPP dollars, China’s GDP already exceeds US and India’s will overtake it in the next dozen years.
GDP projections
The arch of history is clear. The center of world economy will be back in Asia as it has been for most of human history. With hindsight one may assert that Western ascendancy was a blip.
Vision of One World
If the world system continues as it is, the power will shift permanently out of the hands of the Western elite. It is to prevent this future, that they want internationalized control and free borders in which they can use their managerial skills and networks to maintain hegemony indefinitely. They seek a world in which the nominal leaders of countries are figureheads (as in the currently organized EU) and the policies are being dictated to the bureaucrats behind doors. Naturally, they are opposed to leaders who are against open borders and for nationalism. This explains their visceral dislike for the likes of Putin, Modi, Orbán, and Trump.
As jobs disappear due to AI, social problems will only exacerbate. To deal with that challenge, the ideas of Neo-Marxism, in which social conflict is expanded beyond economic classes to race, gender, and historical divisions, have been co-opted by them.
Whereas in the past, America appealed to idealism by presenting itself as a beacon of hope where only merit mattered, the DEI vision divides up people based on perceived historical injustices and narratives of victimhood.
This is the vision of the Brave New World come alive. The One World will be run by Alphas and Betas who can be from any background based on merit, whereas the lives of Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons, who serve the top two classes, will be controlled by DEI logic.
Passwords to the boardroom
After obtaining hegemony over education and culture, the Neo-Marxists have achieved managerial hegemony over industry. The catchwords of the schoolbook became the passwords to the boardroom.
Although the Neo-Marxists have become the capitalist ruling class, there is contradictory tension within their beliefs that gets projected in endless mazes of doublethink.
You shouldn’t have children to save the planet, but to save your country’s economy, you must bring in immigrants to have children. “Black Lives Matter” is progressive, but “White Lives Matter” is racist. “Immigration laws should be blind to religion” is good, but “universal civil code” is bad. People should be allowed to choose the gender they feel, but they are not allowed to choose their race.
Hold on to your seats, it is going to be a bumpy ride.
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