Steyn has helpfully (if one can call it that) put together the blueprint of stages of grief for a dying culture. He notes that "all the stories are different, and all the stories are the same".
Indeed.
Please also note:
That little nugget is exactly the same kind of "magnificent compression" that Steyn has noted about the recently departed George Jonas.
On Jonas, Steyn rightly points out "He was a wit, which is a higher art than being a jokester," said Mark Steyn, a longtime friend and colleague."
"His elegance had a magnificent compression to it, which I think comes in part from writing poetry or writing opera libretti, in both disciplines of which you have to say it in a very short space of time."
But now, back to Steyn's Five Stages of Loss and Grief for the Western World:
"Denial: Mass Muslim immigration isn't a problem.
Anger: The real problem is those Islamophobes who think mass Muslim immigration is a problem.
Bargaining: So we'll be okay if we just rein in a few peripheral rights like free speech.
Depression: But funnily the old multiculti utopia doesn't seem quite so vibrant now that all the gays and Jews and uncovered women are gone.
Acceptance: Still, life's okay as long as you're culturally sensitive and don't provoke anyone by wearing short skirts or leaving the house."
On Jonas, Steyn rightly points out "He was a wit, which is a higher art than being a jokester," said Mark Steyn, a longtime friend and colleague."
"His elegance had a magnificent compression to it, which I think comes in part from writing poetry or writing opera libretti, in both disciplines of which you have to say it in a very short space of time."
Anger: The real problem is those Islamophobes who think mass Muslim immigration is a problem.
Bargaining: So we'll be okay if we just rein in a few peripheral rights like free speech.
Depression: But funnily the old multiculti utopia doesn't seem quite so vibrant now that all the gays and Jews and uncovered women are gone.
Acceptance: Still, life's okay as long as you're culturally sensitive and don't provoke anyone by wearing short skirts or leaving the house."
It's the sad, honest truth.
