02-27-2014, 03:40 PM
swampy, I don't think there's any country in the post-Columbus era that has experienced significant immigration that has attained a pureed mush, so I don't see that as a credible threat. Even if they look monolithic from the outside, as soon as there's instability all the factions come back out of the woodwork, e.g. Russia.
The threat of pureed mush comes from conservative (small "c") religion (Christian, Muslim--or even political "religion" like communism). They aren't interested in coexistence...they REQUIRE conformity to survive. They demand it of themselves, and they demand it of others because the "others" represent a vector of corruption undermining the conservatives.
The threat of pureed mush comes from conservative (small "c") religion (Christian, Muslim--or even political "religion" like communism). They aren't interested in coexistence...they REQUIRE conformity to survive. They demand it of themselves, and they demand it of others because the "others" represent a vector of corruption undermining the conservatives.