Europe's End Game: Urban Death & Rural Revival

Michael Kerbow’s paintings often show what cities are and ought to be: relics of an overpopulated past not at all suitable for human habitation.

A black man from Nigeria told me he thinks blacks are occupying Sweden. Looking at Sweden, however, we see blacks are working as the Swedes’ servants, as food deliverymen, maids, street sweeps, and toilet cleaners. Blacks are not “occupying Sweden”. And without central heating, they will go extinct again.

As a philosopher, the one fundamental thing I’ve grown certain of is that people who believe in progress are confusing progress with growth. But growth always ends in death. Offspring has to start from scratch and has to re-learn everything. It is this cycle of birth-growth-and-death that produces real progress.