Programming note: Tonight, Sunday, I'll be back here at SteynOnline with Part Three of our seventy-eighth Tale for Our Time, Hugo Bettauer's pertinent satire of 1922 - The City without Jews.
~Meanwhile, welcome to this week's episode of my ongoing audio adaptation of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. I am bitter about the last twenty years, and bitterness is not conducive to one's writing. However, this last week the President of the United States - who is not; one concedes, to everyone's taste - told a prestigious assemblage of western leaders the following:
Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly, anymore, they're not recognizable.
And we can argue about it, but there's no argument. Friends come back from different places – I don't want to insult anybody – and say, 'I don't recognize it,' and that's not in a positive way. That's in a very negative way. And I love Europe, and I want to see Europe go good, but it's not heading in the right direction. In recent decades, it became conventional wisdom in Washington and European capitals that the only way to grow a modern Western economy was through ever increasing government spending, unchecked mass migration and endless foreign imports.
The consensus was that so-called dirty jobs and heavy industry should be sent elsewhere, that affordable energy should be replaced by the Green New Scam, and that countries could be propped up by importing new and entirely different populations from far-away lands.
That is a very America Alone sentiment. I rejoice that the leading head of government in the west is saying such things for the record - as is his Vice President - while the likes of Starmer, Carney, Macron and Merz are not. Instead, the remarks of the President of the United States are denounced as "anti-European". Au contraire, it is the European leadership class who are "anti-European", for what could be more anti-European than transferring the glorious heights of our civilisation into the hands of barbarians? Trump is almost as old as I am, and he is old enough to miss the Paris as was and the London as was. It's not "progressive" to take the greatest cities in the world and reduce them to crapholes.
Which brings us to today's episode of our ongoing audio adaptation of my boffo bestseller - which addresses the coming of "the state-of-the-art primitive", and revisits the infidel assault on the manhood of Khartoum:
But here's the telling detail: The vanishing-penis hysteria was spread by cellphones and text messaging.
Think about that: You can own a cellphone, yet still believe that shaking hands with an infidel will cause you to lose your penis. That's a state-of-the-art primitive.
Agreeable as it is to revisit the vapourised penises of Sudan, in other ways this is the most dated aspect of America Alone, for it operates within the bounds of Bush's ill-conceived "war on terror". In fact, our enemies have won not by "terrorising", but simply by coming to the west in large numbers and being. As I wrote twenty sod-bollocking years ago in the intro to America Alone:
One day, years from now, as archaeologists sift through the ruins of an ancient civilization for clues to its downfall, they'll marvel at how easy it all was. You don't need to fly jets into skyscrapers and kill thousands of people. As a matter of fact, that's a bad strategy, because even the wimpiest state will feel obliged to respond. But if you frame the issue in terms of multicultural 'sensitivity' the wimp state will bend over backwards to give you everything you want – including, eventually, the keys to those skyscrapers.
And so, in the mayoral offices of first London and now New York, it has proved.
On the other hand, the President assures us an American fleet is moving into position off Iran, so the "war on terror" goes on.
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