Happy Bastille Day to our brothers, sisters, and binary-resisters in France! Wikipedia says this day is also for “the Fête de la Fédération that celebrated the unity of the French people.”
What’s the situation in France right now with “the unity of the French people”? Are the mostly peaceful protests over and the French population, including Muslim immigrants, are now unified once more?
I can’t figure out what the theory behind low-skill immigration in France is. Even the French are no longer impressed by French culture. Why would immigrants to France want to adopt traditional French cultural values? If immigrants to France aren’t going to adopt French cultural values, why do the French want them as neighbors? It can’t be for financial reasons given that low-skill migrants in the world’s most expensive welfare state (by percentage of GDP) are going to be burdensome (the U.S. had the world’s 2nd most expensive welfare state, but that was before coronapanic enhancements so maybe we are actually number 1 now).
Here’s a picture that I took back in October 2022 from the Centre Pompidou:
Not just France. Many countries are surrendering their national identities, and getting grief in the process. The history books will struggle to explain this cultural suicide.
I’m no historian, but there’s no struggle to explain this. It’s an extension of the intentional breakdown of the Western family structure, an explicit goal of Marxists.
These and other 20th century events were generally predicted in Dostoevsky’s introduction to his Brothers Karamazov.
In the latest polls “far right” Le Pen has 55%:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/europe-leaps-further-to-the-right/
Anti-immigration parties are jumping tens of percentage points all over Europe.
People are starting to grasp the fact that small countries without any new infrastructure plans cannot absorb millions of people. The only people who don’t realize are Green voters who live in subsidized apartments which they got during university and which they’ll never leave, because on the free market they would pay at least five times more.
Isn’t the idea that you need young people in order to finance the welfare state? So presumably the French prefer retiring at age whatever and receiving a pension to preserving their culture? France has a fertility rate of 1.8, i.e., not replacing the current population, while say Morocco has a fertility rate of 2.3. The US has nothing to be smug about since ours is even lower, 1.7 — which probably explains why the Biden administration has opened the borders. So probably the more pertinent question is why those of us of child bearing age don’t want to preserve our culture, why Logan and Chloe prefer to own a dog or cat than have children? Why Mason and Ava identify as LBGTQ etc.
Your post reminded me of an earlier one of yours which I managed to find via Yandex: European readers: How do you understand the Paris attacks? How will it affect you?.
I’ll claim that my comment then answers some of today’s post too. Specifically “why do the French want them as neighbors?”. The pervasive mental illness that brought western civilization to an end has only deepened in the last eight years.
How can we be surprised that France is on fire, when they make a national holiday out of a riot that broke all their criminals out of jail?
France would be great if it wasn’t for the French!
I just want to comment that your photo is beautiful. I love Paris.
I have 3 relatives in France, they all leave around Paris in a rural neighborhood. One of them has a 5-acre land with various farm animals, including a dunky. He is a mechanic and has his own car garage but loves farmland (has no clue or interest in farming!)
All my 3 relatives in France tell me Paris is not what it used to be. Way too many foreigners from South Africa, crimes, and dirty streets. My parents visited Paris back in the late 80’s and again in 2019. They too were surprised with the difference they saw from what they remember.