Today, on the first day of the new decade of '201x' years, I am going to tell you why that is. I am hereby triggering the national dialog on what the foremost challenge for the United States will be in this decade, which is the ultimate root cause of most of the other problems we appear to be struggling with. What you are about to read is the equivalent of someone in 1997 describing the expected forces governing the War on Terror from 2001-2009 in profound detail.
This is a very long article, the longest ever written on The Futurist. As it is a guide to the next decade of social, political, and sexual strife, it is not meant to be read in one shot but rather digested slowly over an extended period, with all supporting links read as well. As the months and years of this decade progress, this article will seem all the more prophetic.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 19, 2011 6:15 AM
According to leftist ideology, all wealth should be confiscated by the authorities to be redistributed equally among all people, except among the redistributors, who get more for being the bosses. Although the Gramscian/Fabian strategy of the Democrat Party takes a gradualist approach to achieving this ultimate objective, redistribution of intelligence has already been achieved through the declaration that all humans are equally intelligent. As Nina Power shouts in The Philosophers' Magazine:
[W]e live in an age where we see a resurgence of the idea that some people are fundamentally less intelligent than others The spectre of racism and sexism haunts these supposedly neutral attempts to measure intelligence, as in Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's "bell curve" argument, currently the most cited argument in the entirety of the social sciences — precisely because it is wrong. Thus the contemporary axiom or assertion that everyone is equally intelligent is something of a revelation, for all its bluntness.
The work of Jacques Rancière, who never tires of repeating his assertion that equality is not just something to be fought for, but something to be presupposed, is, for me, one of the most important ideas of the past decade. Although Rancière begins the discussion of this idea in his 1987 text The Ignorant Schoolmaster, it is really only in the last ten years that others have taken up the idea and attempted to work out what it might mean for politics, art and philosophy. Equality may also be something one wishes for in a future to come, after fundamental shifts in the arrangement and order of society. But this is not Rancière's point at all. Equality is not something to be achieved, but something to be presupposed, universally. Everyone is equally intelligent.
How do we know that Albert Einstein and Mike Tyson would be equally intelligent? Because to think otherwise would be racist. How do we know Thomas Edison and Joy Behar would be equally intelligent? Because to think otherwise would be sexist.
According to leftist ideology, all wealth should be confiscated by the authorities to be redistributed equally among all people, except among the redistributors, who get more for being the bosses. Although the Gramscian/Fabian strategy of the Democrat Party takes a gradualist approach to achieving this ultimate objective, redistribution of intelligence has already been achieved through the declaration that all humans are equally intelligent. As Nina Power shouts in The Philosophers' Magazine...:
[W]e live in an age where we see a resurgence of the idea that some people are fundamentally less intelligent than others The spectre of racism and sexism haunts these supposedly neutral attempts to measure intelligence, as in Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's "bell curve" argument, currently the most cited argument in the entirety of the social sciences — precisely because it is wrong. Thus the contemporary axiom or assertion that everyone is equally intelligent is something of a revelaiton, for all its bluntness.
Tito Muñoz, a Colombian immigrant who owns a construction company and won the nickname ?Tito the Builder? as a vocal supporter of Sen. John McCain... (R-Ariz.) in 2008, is running for Virginia Senate. Jo-Ann Chase, a Puerto Rican, says she is the first Latina candidate for a state House seat.
In Northern Virginia, many of the immigrants who have gravitated to the tea party have roots in socialist countries and are intensely afraid that the U.S. is headed down the same path. They embrace the tea party?s small government, socially conservative messages and say the only immigration they are for is the legal kind. They don?t bat an eye when it comes to the movement?s tough anti-illegal-immigrant rhetoric.
Muñoz hosts a one-hour Spanish language radio show called ?America Eres Tu? broadcast Saturday afternoons on WURA 920 AM out of a trailer in Dumfries, Va. He prints copies of the Constitution in Spanish and answers questions about U.S. politics from those who are new to the country.
?If the immigrants understood what was happening in America there would be a revolt against those politicians,? said Muñoz, who became a citizen in 2008. ?Obama?s talking one way and doing another and the Hispanics do not know about that hanky-panky.?
He has launched a state political action committee, TitoPAC, and a federal 527 called the Conservative Hispanic Coalition, to fund his run for state Senate.
?Why do immigrants leave their country? Because they don?t have opportunity and they don?t have freedom, because politicians control everything,? he said. ?We come to America and we are going to have the same crap? Then we might as well go back there.?
Genaro Pedroarias, the national committeeman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Virginia, said the tea party is a natural fit for many of northern Virginia?s immigrants from countries like Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua.
?Most Hispanics who come to this country come here to flee socialistic and oppressive regimes,? said Pedroarias, who is Cuban. ?They are some of the most vibrant members of the tea party.?
Lin Dai Kendall, who left Honduras when she was 33, blames the U.S. immigration system for persistent unemployment among those who are here legally. She?s part Chinese, part Spanish and part Hispanic and doesn?t hesitate to call President Barack Obama a Marxist.
?These people want to call themselves progressive; I call them regressive,? Kendall said. ?What is immoral to me is standing there with my hand out waiting for the government to support me.?
Vera Martin moved to the U.S. from what is now the Czech Republic when she was 5 years old. Now, she is hitting the campaign trail for her husband, who is running for state Senate, and Mancheno-Smoak.
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