Fred Reed, contractarian, puts the case for coming American collapse. Nothing particularly new, but getting all the bad news at once is overwhelming. The core problem is that the multicult, diverse society lacks the resilience of the once homogeneous societies that the West largely had. In times of crisis and breakdown, the centre cannot hold. William Butler Yeats put it well in his poem, The Second Coming (1919):
Turning and turning in the widening gyre