JOHN DERBYSHIRE: My Upcoming Speech At VDARE’s June Conference
05/22/2023
The cry is going round the chancelleries: “Derb’s speaking at the VDARE castle mid-June!” Yes, I am; but what shall I be speaking about?
Nothing’s final yet, but the provisional title of my talk will be: “Are We Doomed? Reflections on our cultural revolution.”
Eschewing false modesty I shall take inspiration from my own 2009 space-time–sundering bestseller We Are Doomed. Tracking forward 14 years on some of the topics I covered there, I shall try to assess the gains and losses for us, the people of the U.S.A., since 2009.
Here are all the chapter headings in my book:
- A Call to Pessimism
- Diversity: Nothing to Celebrate
- Politics: Show Business for Ugly People
- Culture: Pooped Out
- Sex: Surplus to Requirements
- Education: Yale or Jail
- Human Nature: Ask Your Aunt
- Religion: What Shall We Do To Be Saved?
- War: Invading the World
- Immigration: Inviting the World
- Foreigners: Inspecting the World
- The Economy: In Hock to the World
- The Audacity of Hopelessness
That’s too many topics for a 45-minute talk so I shall drop some, probably just covering six or seven, but … I’m still pondering.
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