pajama-wearing civilization collapse via unwashed britons and walmart aesthetics

If you visit the U.K., as it's now called, or London, its capital and completely dominant city, the first thing you'll notice is it's actually pretty nice. The nice parts of London are as nice or maybe even nicer than any city in the United States, certainly nicer than any city in Canada or Australia. Much nicer, actually. It's a great city filled with lots of happy people. But broadly speaking, this country has changed really, really dramatically. And it's changed in ways that are recognizable. And here's what you recognize: the people of Great Britain are going through a series of crises, and they're all internal. Drug use, alcohol use. Their appearance has changed, people are no longer as well kept, the streets, the landscape is not tidy anymore. It's got lots of litter and graffiti in some places. And to technocrats, these are not meaningful measures of anything. Who cares if you've got graffiti? Does that affect GDP? Well, maybe, maybe not, but it's definitely a reflection of how people feel about themselves. People with self-respect do not tolerate public displays of disorder or filth or graffiti or litter because they care about themselves and their family, and they understand intuitively, as every human being does, that once you allow chaos and filth in your immediate environment, you are diminished. So you just don't allow that, and no healthy society does. But all through the West, these are not just features, they're defining features. All Western cities are filled with litter and graffiti and people who look like they didn't bother to get dressed in the morning, but are instead wearing their pajamas in Walmart. It's not just in your town, it's everywhere in what we refer to as the West. The point that underlies all of this is a really obvious one that too few people say: this is the behavior of a defeated people. This is what it looks like when you lose. This is what it looks like when you're on your way out to be replaced by somebody else.