10 Replies to “When the Edge of the Map Moves Inward”

  2. Ah, oh, well, I never…

    Suddenly the “outsource everything, they will invest in us” crowd realizes that not all is so nice and and dandy.

    I do not pity any one of you: you had called this onto everyone. Now pay the consequences. I, on the contrary, had the rectitude to deny the cheap, short term savings, and stayed entirely on shore, even though I struggled all along. But I can look people straight in the eyes and say: I have not contributed to any of the plagues – you have and you have only yourselves to blame.

    I have been telling people for over 20 years: immigrants from the 3d worlds bring incurable diseases. No one wanted to listen. Everyone expressed indignation. I was right.

  4. I love Steyn, but really, Lincoln’s assassination!? How about the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918-19? Seems a tad more relevant as a comparator to me. And from a time when the world was rather less globalized than today.
    This is a rare column by Mr. Steyn that I find not-so-impressive.

    2. I was going to bring the Spanish Flu into the equation but you beat me to it Jim. Interesting that the Flu originated in Kansas at a military camp, and then was spread to Europe by troops sent to Europe towards the end of the War. So a hundred years later we have another possible pandemic on the horizon and this one because of easier and faster travel methods as Steyn has alluded to will spread quicker and faster. Mortality rates in the Spanish Flu epidemic in Western nations were well documented, I don’t believe that the mortality rates reported in China are anywhere close to accurate. If the numbers are under stated then we have no way of establishing containment and that may be the reason that there are so many outbreaks happening across the globe. Indeed the phrase “Here be Dragons” is quite apt since indeed the Dragon, perhaps has unleashed the contagion that may be the Spanish Flu of the Twenty-First century. On a side note some of the links to the Spanish Flu fail to mention where it originated.

    3. The “Spanish flu” was caused by vaccines. Vaccines have killed far more than they have supposedly helped.

  6. Rise and fall of civilizations.
    From a defined centre a useable ideal expands,growing the known world.
    As civilization falls the unknown world expands.
    As useless ideals expand the world we know diminishes.

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