Collapse Chorus Addendum:

The collapse chorus is poisoning itself into irrelevancy.  On Occidental Dissent, we have an article about how America is being 'flushed down the toilet' because American workers are no longer being employed by American businessmen, who prefer to set up factories in China.  This of course is nonsense, because the majority of jobs are in the service sector, not manufacturing, and even the poorest Americans are ridiculously well off from any historical perspective.

http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/08/01/the-engineered-obsolescence-of-the-american-people/

 Another article claims that Mexico is 'imperialist' for sending millions of legal and illegal immigrants across the border.  This is nonsense, none of the immigrants are politically connected to Mexico or are trying to attach the United States to the Mexican government.  One could call them 'colonists' who have come to settle new land, but then that's a good thing.  Since Whites refuse to have even replacement birth rates and our country would empty out over the natural course of events, what right do we have to the land anymore?  Even then, the goal of Mexicans is far simpler, they are 'workers' hoping to receive a higher standard of living for themselves and their families than they could hope to achieve by staying in Mexico.  That's the long and short of their shadowy designs.  Naturally, by increasing the supply of labor in our country, they cause higher unemployment and lower wages.  And due to their low IQ, they are net tax eaters who strain our hospitals, jails, and schools.  But whose fault is that?  We're the ones who invited them in, give birthright citizenship to their children, and refuse to deport illegals or prevent businesses from hiring illegals.  Any sane individual would seek a better life in America if they could, it's the same thing whites would do if they were in the Mexican's shoes.

Vdare.com has multiple blog posts saying our economy is doomed and unemployment will be going up continuously from here on out.  Even if this were true, this could easily be solved by a citizen's dividend, which no longer cared whether someone was employed or not and granted them basic living amenities anyway because they are human beings.  The only truly worrying situation isn't localized poverty, which can be cured through redistribution, but total poverty.  America's GDP is growing, though, and is already sufficiently high to meet all possible needs.  No amount of joblessness among the weak will have an impact on America's true sources of wealth -- her bright minds, her vast natural resources, her super-power momentum, her freedom and business-friendly legal code, her commitment to free trade, etc.  Until America adopts the citizen's dividend, we can predict increasingly harsh stories emerging about the lower classes, like tent cities, starving children, and so on.  But if this really does happen among our poor, the backlash among voters will immediately set it right.  Just as food stamps were extended to the poor, and HUD housing, and Medicaid, measures will be adopted through the democratic system to redistribute wealth to the lower classes until everyone in America has everything they need.  We have already shown we are a caring society which wouldn't abandon its own people to starvation or homelessness.  Just this year, the government acted to give 40 million people without health insurance free/subsidized health care.  This is part of a long tradition of taking care of our poor -- so long as America is rich, Americans will not suffer egregiously from any walk in life.

I have many complaints with the current system.  First among them is the collapse of the monogamous, traditional, nuclear family and the corresponding low birth rate.  Mass immigration of unassimilable undesirables is my next complaint.  Our 20% unemployment rate is a third.  Our vast military spending and overseas adventures is a fourth.  It is easy to find problems to worry about, and it is true that 2010 looks a lot grimmer than 2000 looked.  We've been suffering some really hard times, relatively speaking.  But none of these problems lead to a collapse or portend some coming doomsday.  Every generation has its challenges.  This is still better than Carter's complete screw-up of the economy, LBJ's Vietnam war, WWI or WWII, the Great Depression, the Civil War, etc.  This is nothing.  When an entire philosophical group is determined to magnify everything bad in America and the world and downplay anything good (like saying technology hasn't made any advances since 1960), what you're seeing isn't rational criticism but the advancing of a sinister agenda.  'The worse the better,' except for the far right, they are fine with life actually being worse, or just getting people to believe in the illusion of the world being worse.  Perception is reality.  They want everyone to perceive that everything is worse all the time, until their prophecy of 'worse is better' is fulfilled and a revolution puts them in power, from whence they will save the world.  But worse is never better.  Nazi Germany wasn't an improvement over Weimar Germany, it ended with Germany in cinders and tens of millions of Germans killed, raped, ethnic cleansed, or orphaned.  The USSR was not better than the czars, it ended with tens of millions of people killed or rotting away in gulags for no reason, and everyone else constricted under an economic strait-jacket and a moral noose, never able to speak their mind or be themselves.  The French Revolution resulted in the Terror, the Napoleonic wars, and eventually just returned to the Bourbon dynasty they had kicked out in the first place.  Where has worse resulted in better?  When is worse better?

Even supposing a situation could be found where worse (like say, Nero killing his own mother, and fiddling while Rome burned), was followed by better (the assassination of Nero and placing of a new Emperor on the throne), there's no proof the future would follow this benevolent course.  Most likely, along with the vast majority of other real world history, worse just means worse.  Better just means better.  And A just means A.  Pinning your hopes on a fanatically slight opportunity of remaking the world after it has been destroyed is patently inferior to just trying to make do with the current system and hoping it improves despite its problems.

Here are a few links backing up my critique of the 'technology hasn't improved' Alternative Right article.  These are all news articles that just came out today:

http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/view?q=view%3Apopular&a=Kpt4c5L3LzXvqM&source=news&type=embed

This one's about the Kepler telescope finding that there are millions of earth like planets in our galaxy.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-07/ikaros-successfully-changes-attitude-solar-pressure-alone-using-no-propellant

Over here is the Ikaros spacecraft I talked about, Japan's solar sail spacecraft successfully navigating space for the first time in spaceflight history.

http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/view?q=view%3Apopular&a=i1y01eE-ekakcM&source=news&type=embed

And over here is an article on solar power coming out of Stanford university.  Apparently they've found a way to double solar power efficiency from 30% to 60%, by capturing the energy of the Sun's light and heat simultaneously.  Obviously this has only been successfully implemented in the lab, and will require years of effort to turn into a manufactured industry, but the potential is obvious.  This is just one of many solar power advances being made daily all across the world.  If they were ever combined into a single super-cell, we could have nearly infinite energy at a lower price than current fossil fuels.  And all of this will happen long before we run out of fossil fuels, thus ending another doomsday scenario of the whole 'peak oil' crowd.  This will also help eliminate any complications due to global warming, as we stop putting more greenhouse gases into the sky, eliminating another doomsday scenario of the 'day after tomorrow' crowd.

I've mentioned before that electric cars are coming soon, which have higher engine efficiency than the internal combustion engine we currently use.  Combine this with our cheaper-than-fossil-fuels solar power and fuel efficiency will become stratospheric.  The Chevy Volt is selling for $40k, still too high for reasonable middle class families.  We will need a new generation of battery improvements, lower labor costs, or something to bring the price down further.  But $40k isn't impossibly high either, many internal combustion engine cars sell for more.  It's obvious progress.

All I ask is for the far right to look at the world with unclouded eyes.  Don't insist everything, always, is horrible and getting worse by the day.  There is a limit to grumpiness before it just turns into pathology.  If the far right can't get excited by the Large Hadron Collider, the ITER Fusion Reactor, the James Webb Telescope, the Olympics, the World Cup, the International Space Station, the Chevy Volt, or anything else, it isn't the world's fault for not being 'good enough.'  The fault lies within.