Amerika

At the end of the day, the human quest involves personal sanity and to that end, adaptation to a functional group as well as a natural environment, since humans are social creatures (or possibly herd animals, depending on who you ask). Civilization is natural to us like breathing.

However, civilizations lose unity when people are moving in different directions, their vectors confused by lack of a clear path:

Their experiments confirmed that the transition from ordered to disordered flow occurred somewhere around the theoretically predicted 13 degrees. That is, if an average person veered more than 13 degrees away from straight ahead, the pedestrian flow could tip into disorder, with little lane formation. What’s more, they found that the more disorder there is in a crowd, the less efficiently it moves.

Conservatives argue that the error is lack of a clear goal as in “walk from point A to point B.” Leftists argue that the error is not having enough rules about the proper way to walk with enough space on the sides for others, which means that people will walk in a straight line even if they miss point B.

Regardless, it is clear that when there is no longer an agreement about a goal, such as “Anglo-Saxon Civilization,” then people walk in whatever way they want and arrive at random places. Progressivism, which protects people from natural selection by undoing social order, accelerates this, but diversity turbocharges it.

As it turns out, diversity causes people to withdraw socially and stop trying to figure out what the goal is, only to walk far away from others:

Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam — famous for “Bowling Alone,” his 2000 book on declining civic engagement — has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings.

Putnam claims the US has experienced a pronounced decline in “social capital,” a term he helped popularize. Social capital refers to the social networks — whether friendships or religious congregations or neighborhood associations — that he says are key indicators of civic well-being. When social capital is high, says Putnam, communities are better places to live. Neighborhoods are safer; people are healthier; and more citizens vote.

“People living in ethnically diverse settings appear to ‘hunker down’ — that is, to pull in like a turtle,” Putnam writes.

Diversity replaces culture. Where you had one culture, you now have a bag of loose rules in which to hold multiple cultures. This means that no action can be assessed in advance as socially acceptable or not; everything is a conversation, a struggle session, a discussion.

People find it easier to simply avoid as many of these questions as possible and fall back on law and commerce (the type of stuff that “civic nationalists” want you to make the center of your life). Culture dies, and in its place bureaucracy and business take center stage.

As a result, like in Communism, people do the minimum: they go to jobs, buy stuff, and then run off home to distract themselves with hobbies, perversities, and consumption in order to numb the pain of living in what is at a gut level obvious is a failing civilization.

Much as the solution to Communist states is to remove the benefits that people depend on that therefore make them servants of the bureaucracy, in a diversity state, the solution is to remove the welfare magnets that bring in foreigners:

The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for natives or EU immigrants. The policy was later repealed and re-introduced. Based on a quasi-experimental research design, we find sizeable effects: the benefit reduction reduced the net flow of immigrants by about 5,000 people per year, and the subsequent repeal of the policy reversed the effect almost exactly.

The more of the free stuff you remove, the less diversity you have. Similarly, the less bureaucracy you have, and you have more of a chance for organic culture to resume as your civilization reverts to mono-ethnic status. Until then, you have no hope of survival, and diversity will destroy you from within.

Tags: civic nationalism, diversity, flocking, robert putnam, welfare magnet