If I Were King of the Forest

 

Here are a few examples of how those in charge in the world today are screwing up:

1. Most importantly, just as so many in our culture are yearning for tradition and religious conviction, just as there is a general collapse in meaning leading to skyrocketing suicide, drug addiction, and mental illness, the powers that be in the Catholic Church are aggressively rejecting tradition, abandoning the field. We should be in a renaissance of faith, and the Vatican and the hierarchy seem to be doing whatever they can to prevent it. It makes no sense that mass is licit in any language except Latin, and in any number of liturgical forms is permitted—except the traditional form of the Latin mass. The Vatican has become the sworn enemy of tradition, when tradition is its raison d’etre and what the world now most especially needs and craves.

2. There is no coherent reason for Canada to be fighting a trade war with the US. There is no coherent reason Canada needs to be a political jurisdiction distinct from the United States. If the US wants us, we should be happy to join. If the US has demands in order to trade, we should turn the other cheek. The last thing we can afford to do is pick fights with the US, ten times our size and considerably more than ten times wealthier. This is suicidal.

3. The pursuit of mass immigration by Western governments is also suicidal. It is not just that the immigrants in such large numbers are likely to terminally change the cultures. It is not just that they cause the collapse of social cohesion and make life difficult for everyone. The initial premise for mass migration itself is folly. The claim is that an influx of new workers is needed to fund the retirements of older workers. At best, this only delays the problem and makes it larger—it is a Ponzi scheme. These new workers will retire in turn, and the taps will have to be opened wider until it all collapses horribly. Yet robotics seem likely soon to replace much human labour. The imported labour is likely itself to soon be unemployed and a burden on the state—if it is not, on balance, already.

4. Carbon taxes, subsidies for alternative energy, and such green measures make no sense, because the atmosphere knows no borders. All such measures in one jurisdiction simply drive industry to another, impoverishing us and worsening the environment due to greater transportation needs and worse environmental regulation. The solution, if there is one, is to allow market forces and engineering advances to develop “clean” energy sources that are cheaper than oil and gas. Only when the alternative sources are intrinsically cheaper can we expect world-wide compliance.