Being retired is no bed of roses. I have time to contemplate social issues, determine where the thinking gets fuzzy or downright wrong and then formulate the proper response that avoids the pitfalls of previous theorists. Let’s take two of the most famous theories ever put forth, both by dead white guys. I’m talking about Newton’s Laws of Motion and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.
You are right, it is a trick question. Newton posed his theory and it has since been scientifically proven, that means the results have been duplicated. Strap enough rockets to your ass and you will be propelled. Darwin, as far as biology is concerned, remains a theory. It sounds good and seems to apply to social systems.
, first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859, is the process by which organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable physical or behavioral traits. Changes that allow an organism to better adapt to its environment will help it survive and have more offspring.
We have been going about it all wrong. We have limited Newton’s Laws to their application in Physics without regard to the social to the social implications. Human society was closer to getting it right in Darwin’s day than at any other time.
India is a case in point. Many of the major metropolitan areas would rival their first world counterparts. The workforce is educated enough to teach a caller 1000 miles away how to turn on their computer. In rural areas, it is a different story. There are many areas of India where villages and settlements have not reached the enlightened stage of using a privy, let alone a flush toilet. The government has begun an aggressive campaign of installing flush toilets in homes. There is also a re-education campaign to teach members of the household the value of using the toilet. The program is having mixed results. A portion of the population just can’t enjoy their morning shit until they have picked some banana leaves and squatted in a field, all the time worried if a cobra is going to bite them in the balls. Okay, I made that last part up.
Throughout Asia, Africa, Central and South America, and the Middle East are starving people who are unfamiliar with the concept of toilet paper. They come to America, discover toilet paper and suddenly their food no longer tastes like shit. One week’s travel two centuries of progress. How can it get any better?
I was born and raised part of the time in Florida. I observed a common phenomenon. All of these snowbirds come down, decide Florida is perfect the way it is. They go back home and sell everything they own and move to Florida. This with the belief that the Florida they see is perfect and nothing needs to change. The natives all bemoan the fact that the whole state is going to hell in a handbasket.
Wherever the British went, they sent their second, third and fourth sons. One for the military, one for business and one for the Church. If they ever came home they were expected to return rich, because all of dad’s money and estates went to the first son. Think about that for a moment.
Habib comes west and Chancey goes east. Chancey is informed about local custom, you want me to do what? With my fingers! Habib puts on fifty pounds because his food no longer tastes like shit. Chancey corners the market on toilet paper distribution and becomes a “chicken nabob,”( amasses L50-60K fortune). One is destined to be forever a consumer the other an entrepreneur.
Apply Newton’s laws to immigration and it all falls into place. The poor and the stupid with their shit stained hands have just enough force supplied by an obsolete Mexican railroad to make it across the border. They discover toilet paper, Oprah, and Democrats. Life can’t get any better than that. Why strive for a better job, and more education when things are hovering near perfect?
What is needed is the Quip Pro Quo that made the British Empire. To all those third world shit holes, okay, we’ll take your gang bangers, dope dealers, rapists, and murders. But you gotta take our liberals (boy did we fuck them with that bargain).
Pretty soon Elon Musk can bore tunnels in Costa Rica uniting east and west to his heart’s content. With cheaper labor costs he can lower the costs of a Tesler to a price point people can afford. The fact that no more than three Teslars can be plugged in at a time, is neither here nor there.
The Kardashians, their entourage, and seventy-five photographers are welcome, think Evita times four. “Big assed” girls could become a job description. Eventually, enough liberals will move into the third world all those psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, women’s studies professors will set up shop that expatriates will be encouraged to return.
I think that flow of immigrants could be reduced and possibly reversed in two generations. Welfare would be cut. Third world shit holes could be elevated to second world shitholes.
WE are doing it all backwards. The goal is to increase the standards of living in third world shitholes not lower our standard of living to the third world. If they can’t or won’t conform, we’ll just fence the country off and treat all the occupants like denizens in a zoo.