I can teach my kids to salute the flag, to revere the Founding Fathers, to recite the Constitution; I can even try to inculcate American virtues like optimism, courage, enterprise, ingenuity — but teaching these as a rote catechism is obviously not the same as learning them by digging a sod house in Comanche territory.

And more importantly, I can’t give them a cooperative equilibrium with a group of other people called “Americans”, in a state governed by Americans, that represents American interests. That equilibrium is broken.

The physical borders are defensible, but the conceptual borders are not.

This is occasionally used by open-borders types to justify further mass immigration — after all, the cat is already out of the bag.

But obviously more heterogeneity, more defection, more betrayal of existing Americans’ interest will only make the coming conflicts more vicious, and harder to sort out.

It looks like the system of nations is breaking down. It is time to head for the EXIT and find how to reshape the world in an image that is fit for humans. The trick is who aligns with whom or another way: who is your friend and who is your enemy. Do you consort with your enemies? Societies are built upon these foundations. This is an interesting read if you think everything is peachy-keen and even if you don’t..