Outbred

I have been suffering from melancholy for some time now. I know the cause and I know there is no cure other than fatalistic acceptance of the distressing vision that has haunted me of late: that western civilization generally and its highest expression, the United States of America, are historical aberrations destined to be subsumed beneath the tide of the barbaric cult of statism that marks most of man's history. In previous years I had not considered that I might live to see the end of the American Idea. It has been scarred and obscured, surely, but there was always hope for its survival, even eventual victory. Lately, however, sheer demographic realities have brought me close to concluding that the last echo of the shot heard around the world would reverberate within my lifetime.

The West has been cursed with material prosperity which reduces the economic necessity of large families, makes contraception more readily available, and increases the tendency of a society to selfishness and hedonism. Child-rearing becomes an obstacle to self-indulgence easily avoided by contraception or short-circuited by abortion. All of this results in a reduction in birth rates. The West will be submerged under an irresistible demographic tidal wave. This would not, in itself, be a problem if it were not for one vital truth: heredity is the single most determining factor in the perpetuation of culture, and culture matters. By "culture" I do not mean language, or esthetics (dress, art, music, etc.). I mean the deep foundational values and world view held consciously or (more often) unconsciously by a society. It is the "deep culture" of the West generally and its pinnacle expression, the American deep culture, that is destined to be extinguished by sheer force of overwhelming numbers.

When the American deep culture, already marred and distorted by ideas contrary to its basic premise, finally lapses into the footnotes of history, with it will pass the ideals of inherent individual rights and limited, subservient government. The deviation from the norm of despotism will be leveled out. Mankind will return to varying degrees and statism. The power of the state will no more be in question, merely the length of the chain by which the individual is bound.