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Of course, Joe Bageant’s sickly death had nothing to do with this state of affairs, right? /snark a la volcán…
Just a report to the malthusian faction on one country.
As someone living six years SOTB, I defy anyone: come here, speak Spanish, make friends with the locals, as we have done. Make lots of friends here.
You will observe the following: one, almost everyone over sixty, particularly in the urban areas, is sick. People dying left and right of kidney failure and other organ disease. Healthy, leaner people with diabetes, having toes, limbs amputated due to the disease. Park outside any of the innumerable farmacias that have cropped up like weeds, you will see a steady stream of customers. The door practically never stays shut on busier streets. People are damned sick. Tumors this, cancer that, you name it.
Two. Five years ago we admired this trim, lean, witty hard-working people for not being like the US. You couldn’t find fat people anywhere. Willowy girls with hourglass figures as slender as the average US woman’s thigh. Now? I defy you to stand on any city street anywhere in Mexico and find women over 25 who are not at least fat if not obese. I mean heroically obese – lady Michelen figures, concentric rings of flab, up to candidates for burial in piano cases. Men too. Mostly the young men. This dates, of course, to the introduction of high fructose corn syrup in everything and the GMO corn getting into their tortillas. Yes, that monster corn that is said to compromise male fertility. And the men are getting fat. Park at some construction site, and observe masons hand-carrying five gallon buckets of concrete up and down scaffolding all day long… who are FAT.
This did not exist five years ago.
Five years ago you couldn’t toss a cigarette butt without hitting a baby. Beautiful babies, with rapt, fixed eye contact at mere weeks of age, unlike US babies. Quietly watching the world around them. Babies in arms as common as purses.
Now? I defy you, go to any Sorianna’s in any city, look around, and just try to find a baby under two years of age. Go to the infant’s department, which often occupies a quarter of every Sorianna store. Witness how many people are buying baby items: usually zero. None.
You just don’t see babies. Hardly ever. Rarely a pregnant girl.
Yes, malthusians, cheer yourselves on. Your globalists have done a fine job on Mexico already. All the shower of poisons are killing people off en masse and have rendered the young people sterile, thanks to this fatal and sterilizing coctail of goo that “free trade” has showered on the Mexican people.
Stamp your feet for joy! Hooray, a population destroyed! Dead people everywhere, every family busy changing colostomy bags! Wow, you’ve done it! A perfect malthusian world!
Oh while you’re at it go have a look at the sierra – pick any. Oozing with springs. Ponds in the high places. The upper part of the country 99% empty. Good thing they killed off the people to take all the natural resources for the use of you know who, huh?
/snark. But I am not kidding. If you’re worrying about population explosion, Mexico is for you. I am sorry to say.
This article encompasses most of the Illth themes and goes well beyond, published by (repentant) former Republican Party strategist Kevin Phillips.
Numbers racket: Why the economy is worse than we know.
FWIW there has been an X class solar flare which NASA currently believes is at least partly earth-bound.
NOAA https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
More in-depth from NASA https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/10mar_stormwarning/
Don’t know about longer lives. People don’t necessarily accomplish more or better. Look (for those who know who I’m talking about these days) at all Chopin accomplished in 39 years, and the enduring nature of what he did. What benefit will the average software engineer bestow upon anyone three generations hence other than his part in causing the great machine to blow to kingdom come?
Will say just this much, until the tsunami of GMO monster food found its way onto Mexican tables here, we met a lot of very happy subsistance farmers. Their urban relatives of course were ashamed of them for not pining for “a better way of life” replete with television, cars on debt and other glories of urban culture, but at least in our tiny little view of life on this earth I can say there are exceptions to the industrialized conceit that all the planet just drools to become like the Jetsons.
I’ll go with Kunstler this time who wrote that the advent of industrialized England brought about the worst quality of (urban) life ever witnessed on the planet.
Ash I really enjoy your article. With the caveat that like others I take exception to the conclusions on Christianity. I will say, the conclusions nail a dead-ringer portrait on Churchianity.
Listen, I would like to mention a certain elephant in the room about which I’ve tried to comment before but Blogger previously stuffed the issue every time. Of course the second the comment should take, probably a shotgun blast of denials will rip forth too… As delicately as I can put this, recently I have noticed this among my friends of that other tribe who share the previous half of THE BOOK: they are growing nervous.
Flipping out here and there, post-OWSer movement. Why? Because things are starting to rhyme with what took place in Europe almost a century ago. The banks passing bad paper, the proverbial tribe getting scapegoated for the sins of certain families high up the economic food chain, and… then…
I just want to say to everyone who dishes on those of the book – and I’m not defending the behavior of the thumper-class – realize that controversy about the book will also come back to bite the proverbial tribe. Sooner or later it is going to bust loose.
You even read Kunstler fretting over the possibility here and there.
Just saying.
