Sitting through the night hoping the patient's fever and delirium will break to again allow the dawn.
Whether it is “Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” by MacKay or “The French Revolution” by Carlyle, the idea of delirium sweeping through, infecting, great swathes of people in a country is no longer new. Everyone has their opinion on the most dangerous or ridiculous current fad but mine is the unquestioning worship of globalism. Everything must and is better if it has been moved 5000 miles to the other side of the planet. This applies to people as much as goods, raw materials and services. Whether it be cost or value, moving “it” somewhere else is the preferred solution to making “it” in as short a radius as possible from the need.
All forms of worship have their declared heresies. Paradoxical beliefs are poorly tolerated, or not tolerated at all. Scientism and all other religions are a human activity. As such, like all human activities, they all are ridden with unwarranted assumptions, naive beliefs and prejudices accepted as prevailing wisdom. The one constant is that the people on the “outs” of the great and the wise in the prevailing religion are still completely stupid, even if their previous heresies are now spouted as gospel by the wise.
Immigration having positive values is the current orthodoxy to be preserved at all costs. The idea that a society will continue to do just fine staying in place by itself is the accompanying heresy. The fact it could actually be a case of paradox, with both beliefs true at once, is unthinkable to the high priests. If North America had not been discovered by Europe, or the reverse had happened, the society here today would be just fine, as would be Europe's.
At the end of the Second World War, many nations lay in ruins. The solution was not to move those peoples all over the planet to somewhere else. It was to build them back up in place. That solution worked so well, nations like China, Japan, Germany and France are among the world's top economies today.
Adam Smith's idea of dividing labour into particular jobs among ten or fifteen people to allow an area to produce more pins is compatible with not having the world's entire supply of pins produced from one giant factory in China.
Over millions of years, atmospheric carbon dioxide was sequestered into the oil sands of Alberta. Shipping this tar to the other side of the world for processing for fuel to again release those millions of years of supply into the atmosphere over the next fifty to one hundred years while pretending that absolutely nothing could go wrong or be irrevocably changed is not a bet that I am willing to make. Letting the tar be processed by a powerful dictator bent on world domination who doesn't like us only doubles down on an already very bad bet.