European pathologies

« It is amazing how different and at the same time, France and the United Kingdom are similar. The differences are obvious, and the similarities are fundamental. These similarities include the imperative need and the impossibility of the reform.

Both countries live well over what they allow and this has been happening for years. Have large deficits of all kinds. The standard of living of the population has been deindustrialized, for the moment, for cheap imports and loans-not for investments, but for current consumption. Social pathology is the same in both countries, although it is more visible and seems more extreme in the United Kingdom, because, geographically, it is twice less than France and has about the same population, which is why the presence of this pathology jumps more in the eyes. Contempt for political class is the same in both countries, as well as the powerlessness of governments to protect borders and inability or refusal of police and justice to prevent or eliminate crime”, Writes Theodore Dalrymple, for Takimag.

« The world champion at France’s pessimism is Pierre Vermeren, a historian who regularly publishes in Le Figaro. He is not interested that France is a country that attracts (not for nothing has the greatest number of tourists), that life expectancy is among the greatest in the world and that poverty, as it was known in the past, has been eliminated. He focuses on the gloomy tendencies related to the French civilization and the life of the French.

The birth rate in France is long below the level of population replacement. However, the population increases due to mass immigration. And the nature of immigration has changed. In the beginning, it was a cheap labor force for the industry, but since the 1970s, it has been more than the reunification of families, and it has proven a process that is self-fun.

According to official statistics, 40% of those born in France have immigrant parents, most of them. Another 10% of those accounted in these statistics are born in the overseas departments of France, such as Guadelupe, Martinica, Mayotte and so on. Of course, none of these things matter if you think that what is more important for a country culture is the number of inhabitants, because all people are the same. But Vermeren is not of the same opinion.

Whatever you say, the UK is in the same boat as France from this point of view. The country began to sow more with a hotel than with someone’s homeland. The UK looks like a luxury hotel for some, and for most it starts to look cheap and fallen.

Vermeren says that « to choose international immigration to compensate for the decrease of birth rate has reached its limit: the population increases, but the social, cultural and anthropological balance of the country has changed … The acceleration of this phenomenon demonstrates the unstoppable will of our elites, without the people being consulted. »

However, it is possible that France has remained a democracy throughout this period. But we should ask ourselves what are the causes of decreased birth and what are the reasons why a policy for the « repopulation » of the country has appeared?

The decrease of birth is a universal phenomenon, except Africa. Everywhere, women have been absorbed in the field of work, which makes family life not only more difficult for them, but less attractive. In Europe, in particular, there was the shock of World War II and the « moral heritage » of genocide, which Vermeren says haunted those in the Baby Boom generation, a generation whose leaders in France have set equality between the 1960s police and SS. The easiest way to avoid repeating the war scenario was not to reproduce. Hitler’s legacy was that any reference to national interest and any desire to keep a way of life began to be likened to genocide.

Vermeren says that the hatred of France was generalized among the country’s intellectual elite in the 1960s, simultaneously with a revolution that became playing with old moral perceptions, and then eliminated them right.

Radical ecologists and neofeminists have convinced many young people that having children means endangering the planet or extending the patriarchate and slavery of women. Equality as power and wealth has become the only purpose worth pursuing.

For that part of the population with fewer intellectual inclinations, a vision of life has been promoted as fun or perpetual distraction. Each minute should be filled with fun, and children are a kind of distraction. In addition, the difficulties for those with average income multiplied. The ordinary workers can no longer expect housing from the state, because they are now allocated to immigrants, drug dealers and unemployed. This does not create conditions for having children. Eight out of ten low and medium income worker have never lived in the couple, and the prospects of people with not much education are not pink. Three addictions graze these people: gambling, pornography and drugs.

And then, says Vermeren, we talk about children, who are small tyrants who kill you any desire to have children. They are spoiled and naughty, and witnesses are a lot of people who have seen them on the train or bus. Children are no longer told to close their mouths and go to their room. Now, parents are trying to find some deep causes for the hystericals of the offspring and reward them with great care and small incentives.

I thought I was a pessimist, but Mr. Vermeren surpasses me in this chapter. Fortunately, I will no longer grab the day I realize whether or not he has justice. ”