IMMIGRATION thread

[Montmorency]

And what do you base this on? I would put my money on nativism or some nebulous cultural maxim.

There is some intersection between what we said.

The 19th c. was driven by European states (and to some extent the US) transitioning to new economic modes while managing internal political activism and the export of ideology.

The 20th c. was about the maturation of super-populous industrial economies in need of resources and markets, the friction they experienced amongst each other as they developed weighty managerial states with both huge powers and huge obligations, and the sparking and steaming that resulted.

What we are seeing so far in the 21st c. is the genuine maturation of nationalism (which is ultimately inextricable from nativism) along increasingly fragmentary and incongruous lines, some being new and some being forged composites of ancient distinctions ...

And even this is but a subset of the 'pluralism saturation'. You see, there are too many identities coexisting at the moment, and in historical terms they are all absurdly powerful in the magnitude and scope of their expression, yet there is no clear way for one identity or its competing constituents (e.g. nerd, feminist, patriot, connoisseur, pervert...) to settle in amongst the rest; in other words, I'm drawing a parallel between national states bursting at the seams in the 20th c. on the way to establishing an international order.

So what we should see now is a culling of identities, including national identities. 'Everyone is queer' is not a stable circumstance, and we will see some kind of process of consolidation.