John Robb on the decline of the West.

For those that think that this will bring about a surge of peaceful economic vigor, you will be wrong. It will fragment society and lead to perpetual stagnation/depression, endemic violence/corruption, and squalor. For absent any moral basis (a social compact), stability, or (widely shared) prosperity: new sources of order will emerge to fill the gap left by the demise of the nation-state. These new sources of order will be first seen in the rise of the criminal entrepreneur, whether they be the besuited corporate gangster or the gang tattooed thug. For in the world of hollow states (without a morality that limits behavior) and limitless connectivity to the global economic system, these criminal entrepreneurs quickly become dominant, violently coercing or corrupting everyone in the path to their enrichment.

However, you have a choice.

1. You can stand alone and do nothing. Thereby suffering the predations of this new criminal class (these global guerrillas).
2. You can join them and prey on your former compatriots, enriching yourself in the process.
3. Or finally, you can build something new. A resilient community based on freedom, prosperity, and a new moral compact.