Politically:
As War World II was the defining event of the 20th century, within the next 50 years we will see the defining event of the 21st century, namely, the
collapse of the dollar. I used to think that the dollar would collapse by 2020, but given how shitty the rest of the world is, it might take much longer.
America's unsustainable debt loads spells doom for the dollar. Socialistic policies (universal health care, supporting single moms for free, supporting the sick and elderly for free) and military adventurism will mean the USA needs to take out more and more debt to pay off new programs as well as existing loans. Eventually, no one will buy US loans as no one will believe that they will be repaid in full, just like it has been with Greece, Iceland, Belarus, or any other country that goes through bankruptcy and spends beyond its means.
And once America defaults on its trillions of debt, the dollar will lose most of its value. Consider: Greece partially defaulted in 2012 and the Euro dropped from 1.5 euros to the dollar in 2011 to 1.25 euros in 2012. A small little country like Greece defaults and the Euro loses nearly 20% of its value. Can you imagine what the trillions of American debt will do once defaulted upon?
Because the dollar is the last thing holding together an increasingly racially fragmented country, when the dollar dies so too will any semblance of American patriotism.
Regionalism will then be king. As Athlone said above:
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2. Expect more religiosity and conservatism overall. This is a function of demography. Among whites, conservatives are rapidly outbreeding their more secular counterparts, and the outflow from these ideologies to more secular trains of thought is simply not keeping up (apples are not falling far from their trees). The majority of white children being born today are being born in conservative households and often are raised with religious values.
And thus the last bastions of White communities in North America will re-institute racial segregation and exclude anything except whites from living in their communities. These area's will also be heavily Christian, but, of course, like always there will be infighting between various Christian groups since no one can agree on what Christianity actually is. Regardless, they will stick together primarily due to skin color.
However, before we get to this point, there is going to be a worldwide crisis brought about by the dollar's collapse. Every country in the world will find itself in the same financial situation:
- No more dollar = savings wiped out globally. People will lose 50% or more of their savings. There will be billions who face starvation.
- No more US generosity through international aid.
- Global trade will decline, or even halt, for a brief period of time as the lack of a reliable international currency inhibits trade.
As such, it will the World's Worst Depression, and every country on the planet will find itself in the same political situation:
- Hungry masses who need food but can't afford it. In order to control the riots, massive police state measures will need to be taken. Dictators will pop up all over the world to handle the resulting instability.
- The collapse of international diplomacy. Massive international competition for valuable resources such as oil, agriculture, trade routes, etc. that will result military intervention in order to secure these resources for their own people. America will dominate this game, resulting in international backlash against American military and increased acts of terrorism worldwide.
Ironically, America might be the best off after it loses its dollar, since American elites will be the first to see the bankruptcy coming. America will frontrun its own crisis.
Demographically:
With the decline of whites and the return of racial segregation, so too will come a decline of non-white populations worldwide. Since whites created most of the world's wealth, as the whites fade so too will most of the world's wealth.
Therefore, along with the dollar's collapse, population sizes of poor countries will dieoff dramatically without reliable global trade due to starvation. Huge parts of China, Africa, Brazil, India, and Russia will be decimated.
Likewise, non-white population sizes in the USA will also decline without being able to rely on white assistance to pay for their welfare mothers and subsidize minority educations resulting in no new innovation from non-white students.
Technologically:
There will be less wealth, more fighting and war. Does that mean more or less technological innovation? Historically, war sometimes produces amazing innovation or incredible deprivation.
Technology could go either way.
Conclusion:
I base my views off of historical accounts of other collapses throughout history, especially Rome's. The dark ages are coming, and this century looks to be it.
And just because things might suck balls in the next century or so, it does not mean that in the long run things will always be bad. The collapse of Rome was not the end of Western civilization, but instead it was the birthpangs of something new and greater.
No one can predict the future. But it sure is fun...