Mark Steyn with a cheerful perspective

Mark Steyn is always full of good cheer about the demographic future of western nations.

Here is a particularly peppy bit.

The transformation of developed societies – either into old folks’ homes (like Japan) or semi-Islamized dystopias (like Amsterdam, Brussels, etc) – will lead, in fact, to emigration. A young German or Japanese circa 2040 will have no reason whatsoever to stay in his native land and have most of his income confiscated in a vain attempt to prop up an unsustainable geriatric welfare system. So many will leave. Where will they go? At one time the obvious answer would have been America – but Good King Barack seems determined to saddle us with the same unaffordable entitlements that have scuttled the rest of the west.

For much of the developed world, the “credit crunch”, the debt burden, and the rest are not part of a cyclical economic downturn but the first manifestations of an existential crisis.

emphasis added.

almost makes you want to sing Happy Days are Here Again, doesn’t it?

go ahead.

exponential times

according to this video, we live in exponential times. what do you think?

hat tip to Tom Ascol, who wisely points out that the need for men of Issachar has never been greater.