Well, here I am at 10 pm writing a post for the morning.\u00a0 And that is the worst possible circumstance.\u00a0 Creativity and even sentience is at a low ebb.\u00a0 But life finds a way.<\/p>\n
So, our insect overlords have decided to turn the United States into Brazil.\u00a0 Well, I guess the odds are in their favor.\u00a0 They\u2019ve got all the money and are already in control of all the levers of power.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s assume they get their way and succeed in flooding the country with a hundred million random third-worlders and their offspring over the next four or five years.<\/p>\n
Okay, so that will make things very different from even the mess we have now.\u00a0 The level of chaos that will introduce into day-to-day life will be impressive.\u00a0 Crime, of course, will become an omnipresent part of life.\u00a0 And the ability of communities to provide first world amenities like utilities, paved roads and emergency services will become extremely difficult.\u00a0 More and more, these atributes will be restricted to islands of affluence and order in an ocean of poverty and chaos.\u00a0 And these islands will need to be self-sufficient and extremely well-guarded.<\/p>\n
So, this will be the future.\u00a0 It seems to me that the best outcomes will be realized by those who organize early and begin to build an infrastructure that creates one of these islands.\u00a0 Maybe the island will be built around a factory that can employ some significant number of people and then build a \u201ccompany town\u201d around it.\u00a0 The important thing is that the entire community is owned by some corporation that has enough clout to prevent the area from being infiltrated by a federal program that seeds prosperous areas with Section 8 housing and introduces drugs and crime into the community.<\/p>\n
In a red state the state government can encourage the establishment of these islands as nuclei from which larger functional areas can be created by their natural growth.\u00a0 You might think that red states can just maintain a healthy society based on their laws but I tend to doubt this.\u00a0 Every state has one or more highly dangerous urban center that will act as a locus of crime that will spread out into the suburbs and even the rural areas surrounding it.\u00a0 All that the state government can do is try to limit the exportation of this crime.\u00a0 But it will be many years before all of this dysfunction burns itself out.\u00a0 In the meantime, it is a choice for those living here whether they will find safe places to live or just sit there and be drowned in the coming tide of barbarism.<\/p>\n
I realize I\u2019m being optimistic here.\u00a0 Perhaps the only islands of affluence will be those that have already been formed by the elites.\u00a0 Maybe the red state leaders will just sit on their hands and allow the tidal wave of poverty and crime to overwhelm everything.\u00a0 That wouldn\u2019t be entirely unexpected.\u00a0 But if so then those of us who have families will be forced to flee farther afield.\u00a0 After all, even in Fifth Century AD Italy, a few safe havens were formed to avoid the rapine and pillaging of the Huns, Goths and Lombards.\u00a0 In fact, Venice was specifically founded for this very reason.<\/p>\n
So, I guess the idea is to look for places where efforts are being made to create areas of restoration and revitalization.\u00a0 The chief indicator will be the imposition of strict law and order.\u00a0 The tell-tale sign I\u2019d look for would be the liberal use of the death penalty to restore order.\u00a0 It is a very effective methodology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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