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writingA recent report has found that the US currently has 7 million workers from Mexico, an increase of 2 million from six years ago… meaning that one in 7 Mexican workers now works in the United States.
Ironically, one cause of the increase may be better border enforcement, effectively trapping Mexicans in the US who might otherwise cross the border back to Mexico.
In 2005, 9.4% of native Mexicans were living in the US, and 14% of working Mexicans had jobs in the US (as opposed to 2.5% of working Canadians). This year, Mexicans accounted for nearly 5% of the total US civilian workforce.
Several approaches have been attempted to fight ideas.
1. Deprive them of hosts and transmission vectors, by quarantining people that have contracted them, e.g. as McCarthyism attempted. Or worse, what Stalin did with purges etc.
2. Refute them openly, logically, rationally. This tends to work in science, mathematics, and philosophy. It also works to dispell children of simple mythological constructs such as Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. More complex mythological constructs have for the most part evolved immunity to reason and logic. This doesn’t mean you should stop trying (hat tip: Mike Linksvayer).
3. Replace them by developing better idea(s) which outpropagate, overwhelm, and ideally displace the idea(s) you are fighting. This is how science could defeat widespread superstition. How freedom has a chance at defeating fascism. How hope can defeat fear. How love can defeat suicidal hate.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross, author of On Death and Dying, asked people on their deathbeds “What do you regret most about your life?”
The number one response was: “I wish I would have taken more chances. I feel like I lived my life playing it too safe.”
The number two response was: “I wish I would have taken more time to reflect. I never stopped and smelled the roses in life.”
Tarik Saleh, dokumentärfilmare: “Jag var utarbetad och luspank.
Vi har haft som princip sedan vi startade vårt produktionsbolag Atmo att inte göra reklamfilm. Anledningarna är många.
Jag har tidigare jobbat på reklambyrå. Jag vet att även om man tänker sig att man bara skall göra reklam för att finansiera sina hjärteprojekt, slutar det med att man bara gör reklam. Pengar är som knark - beroendeframkallande. Reklambranschen är full av snabba pengar.
Alla jag känner som jobbar med reklam använder alltid Roy Andersson som exempel; det går att vara en stor konstnär och samtidigt hålla på med reklam. Men pengarna går aldrig till hjärteprojekten, de går till villaombygnader och Suvinköp.”
Wolf Dieter Enkelmann, director of the Institut für Wirtschaftsgestaltung (institute for business structuring) considers what makes Europe what it is and comes up with the following thoughts:
“Europeans are eccentric in the literal sense of the world. This shines vividly through most of the history of the world. But unbeknown to them. So strongly has this become second nature even to those for whom respectability has pride of place. They seek their identity in their aims, their centre in alienation. Hard-line defenders of the status quo look quite different. Europeans see chances where others see only abysses and the end of all justice. What would Europe be without the migration of peoples, without its adventurers and soldiers of fortune, its refugees and expellees, those who have betrayed their fatherland or lost their homeland, without all those who found Europe intolerable? A longing for distant shores: it is tempting to think of this as a European invention. Eccentricity is a hallmark of Christianity, but it was already written into the original mythology which the peoples of this continent invoke through their common name.”