On 'The New Vichy Syndrome' by Theodore Dalrymple

I had briefly thought that the United States is becoming like Vichy France in being run by globallists rather than a native government recently. So I was rather surprised to find this book of similar title on a library shelf soon thereafter. I checkedit out.

Published in 2010 and written by a British psychiatrist I thought of radovan karoditch at first-with a little bias about psychiatrist writing about social psychology. Yet after surveying the book (a little short of reading every page) I decided that its actually not a polemic. In fact the book hasn't any prescriptive fix for Europe's troubles with miserableism and greivance mongering, low birth rate, low self esteem, influx of Moslems and Moslem culture and lack of a transcendent faith in God or anything else.

The new Vichy Europe described from the point of view of a contemporary history analysis obviously results in a diagnosis as the author is a psychiatrist. Though he offers no cure it is interesting enough to see the way the author views much of the contemporary European mailaise that is also developing in the United States as a pschological phenomenon rather than a result of material, geo-political evolution of history.

With a finite world the age of exploration seems dead. There is no place for a Frobisher or Drake, Magellen or Columbus to go. Exploration is filtered through bureaucracy, and humanity cannot just transition into the destruction of its fellow humans because the room is full.

This book does provide some interesting insights into European phenomena that I was unaware of or had forgotten. It also reiterates some useful facts of life-such as that not all people can be scholars and they actualize in this era fully in vulgarity and even debauchery in the absence of obvious productive activity. In a faithless world of luxury and ego the individual has no humility before God to be concerned about and crude, loud expression better serves to persuade that llife is being lived to the full.

I am a supporter of a steady state economy myself. New forms of high tech green agriculture incorporated in complex, intricate urban renovations could give people something to do while alive in a stable population. The Egyptians had a nation that changed little for thousands of years. Perhaps we could build solar photon collecting, thinking in artificial intelligence mountain range buildings brick by brick-exciting to climb on and live in-while conservative, responsive minimal resource wasting space colonization andplanetary exploration is advanced.

I believe that real,material, rational solutions to problems of civilization are better than diagnosing them as mass psychological issues thatmight be changed through irrational action. The author does not suggest irrational responses, yet he seems unaware that the 1960s created real awareness of the world limits to population growth vs. resource availability, and so the implication that Europe should increase its birth rate or perhaps resume the age of colonization, though not made explicitly, is about all in the book one might consider implicitly. While Moslem immigration to Europe would help destroy European culture, the proactive creation of a new way of the advance of civilization in Europe and the U.S.A. needs to be based on new inclusive principles exportable with isotropic political advantage multilaterally.