DEEPLY DISTRURBING.

“Look around you. From now on, it gets worse. In ten years’ time, there will be no American Dream, any more than there’s a Greek or Portuguese Dream.”—page 24

I’m not a big fan of end-of-the-world, doomsday-scenario books, and Mark Steyn’s dystopian screed, ‘After America: Get Ready for Armageddon,’ is certainly one of those. In this book he manages to insult almost everybody on the planet, and, those few he doesn’t insult, he scares the crap out of. Yet much of what he has to say makes too much sense. The incredible statistics and demographics he shares are enough, by themselves, to scramble your head.

He writes, on page 295: “There is a fine line between civilization and the abyss.” For most of the rest of the book he postulates that America, along with all of western civilization, has already crossed that line and are now terminally plunging into the abyss—and that the post-America era is going to be an exceedingly dark age. Probably the darkest age in history.

Recommendation: It’s hard to think to whom one could or should recommend this book, because it’s just, overall, too frightening. Perhaps, instead of “Get yourself a gun, while you’re still allowed to.”—page 235; I could just say, you might want to go ahead and read this book, while you’re still allowed to.

“Changing the culture (the schools, the churches, the movies, the TV shows) is more important than changing the politics”—page 313

Adobe Digital Editions [.ePub] on loan from http://www.lapl.org/catalog/emedia.html/, 368 pages