To:    Comment at the Guardian
Re:    The standard model of socio-economic reality is fundamentally flawed, self-deluding and self-serving
Date: Monday 15 January 07

In response to a Guardian article, "Don't believe this claptrap. Migrants are no threat to us", by Philippe Legrain, defending globalisation and mass immigration

Link to article and thread at The Guardian.
 

Mass immigration into an already natively overpopulated western Europe and the "economic forces" that are driving it, although not such an obvious or deliberate evil as Nazism, are no less an INSANITY, which, if allowed to continue, will lead to even greater devastation and loss of life.

Philippe Legrain, like most people, bases his ideas (in good faith, I'm sure) on a model of socio-economic reality which is fundamentally flawed, self-deluding and self-serving (in the short-term interests of our dumb-animal, rather than human, nature).

The problem is that social scientists, especially economists, do not go back to basics and take an evolutionary, anthropological view of human society. They are totally preoccupied with (because completely immersed in and dependent on - as we all are) the artificial "socio-economic environment", which for Homo sapiens has effectively replaced the natural environment for his continuing, Darwinian, blind, dumb-animal struggle for survival and advantage, which free-market capitalism has developed and, more recently, been honed to facilitate (naturally enough, by those who short-sightedly and materially profit from it most).

2nd Post
 
[Lamington], "The real scandal of this issue" is not "that the British people have never been given a say as to whether or not they wish to live in a multicultural society," but that they have been forcibly prevented from doing so whenever they have tried by being condemned and dismissed as "racists".

[penfold37], "if someone is willing to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to work in this country, then they have the drive and determination that this country does not see enough of", you write.

I couldn't disagree more! If they had the drive and determination (and pride of self-achievement) that generations of native West Europeans have shown - pulling themselves up by their bootstraps from the medieval state they were once in - they would create the possibilities (material wealth and freedoms) that we (and the Japanese, for example) have in their OWN countries, to suit their own histories, cultures and mentalities, instead of coming here and clashing with ours, to take advantage of what others had already created.

Not that I blame them for taking advantage of our own government's and businesses' stupidly short-sighted self-interest in their cheap labour.

I'll probably be accused of "racism" for writing that, as critics of mass immigration and multicultural society usually are, in order to dismiss them without having to listen to arguments contrary to their own short-sighted self-interests, or political ideology.

More of my views on the MADNESS of mass immigration and the "melting pot" of multi-racial/multicultural society at http://www.spaceship-earth.org/Letters/Editor/Index-non-pc.htm

 

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[AntonioV], thanks for telling us your immigration "success story”, and the moral you drew from it. It rings depressingly true, and not just for France.

Just as a century ago, the leaders of Europe's most "advanced nations" were leading us, full of self-confidence and self-righteousness, towards the First and then the Second World War (providing the fertile soil for the rise of Hitler), now they are leading us towards an even bigger catastrophe, inviting millions of immigrants into our already overpopulated countries to help grow and partake in economies and lifestyles (and lifestyle aspirations) that are inherently unsustainable on our finite and vulnerable planet.

My homepage: http://www.spaceship-earth.org