Global Shanty Town

There have been countless little streams, murders, rapes, forced confinements, kidnappings… and all this relentless determination to harm, to trouble, to ruin life, which has transformed one of Earth’s most peaceful and civilized countries,
Great Britain, and with it so many others in Europe—Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany—into chaotic assortments of untidy and dilapidated wastelands, brutish and ultraviolent, which everyday put us on notice, in public transportation, in hospitals, in schools, in the street, as to their status as pioneering
outposts of the global shanty town.

Renaud Camus, The Deep Murmur

Paris burned last night. People burned today in Boulder, Colorado. The global shanty town will only be possible when everybody who remembers the old life, the rights, the culture, the standard of living—all that inconvenient, high-maintenance stuff—goes away.