We Don't Need No Education

In which I involve myself in a Vox Popoli debate on the efficacy of schools and civilization...

Simply put many people do not reason well. Emotionalism and mindless support for an ideological position is no more attractive from the people I have a philosophical kinship with than from those whose philosophy I abhor.

Et tu America?

Los Angeles is at the leading edge of a U.S. demographic trend, with half of its workforce immigrants, many of them unskilled and speaking little English.

As baby boomers retire, the same pattern will emerge across the country, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Demographers estimate that by 2025 most of the growth in the workforce will be from immigrants.

Suppose that in some ways the decline of America mirrors that of ancient Rome... we allow the 'barbarians' to settle inside the empire for the purpose of filling our armies etc... The result ultimately was the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the continuance of the Eastern Roman Empire... If the fate of America is the same, what portion will reconstitute itself as the Eastern Empire...

Or, are we instead looking at the end of the Republic and waiting for an Augustus to usher in a new society?