The End of the World as We Know It, with Mark Steyn

[Entropy56]

The decline of the West started with Charles Darwin.

[thermmal5]

With respect, I dun really think now China is like the Persian Empire, since the Persian Empire was undeniably the most uni-powerful nation at its time. People's Republic of China, however are actually still struggling to survive from the Western blockade, and of course, the situation is better than 19th century Western colonized era, but ...... it is going be ugly, since the West wont be generous, and China, in many cases, dun give a shit, as it always has been for Thousands of years .

[Zeeceei]

Compelling watch. For a Kabbalistic view on this subject see my featured short.

[Schwyndfst]

I'm giving thoughts to these comparisons:

Rome of the Republic = The West before WW1

Roman Empire = Nowadays' West

Barbarians = Muslims, hispanics, africans

Spiritual vacuum filled by Christianity = Now filled by Islam

Then Persia = Now China?

[MrJeremyThorpe]

Racist rhetoric. When Muslims are the majority in Europe around the mid point of the century then all this racist nonsense will disappear because Islam doesnt tollerat racism and rightly so. Roll on capitulation around 2050.

[polutc]

If you guys like this check out Jared Taylor-Hispanicization debate of U.S.A.

Mark Steyn is smart, but he's not the only Canary.

[blueguitarblue]

Horrifying that what makes Europe Europe is dying...:(

[moctezuma696]

Learn from history e.g. the great Roman Empire was not destroyed by the barbarians from without but imploded from within through inaction, lack of direction and a lack of will... a travesty.

[pbodymathis]

Revelation 20:7 Satan will deceive the nations of the earth and gather them together for battle. Their numbers will be like the sand on the seashore. They will march the breadth of the earth and surround the city that God loves. Fire from heaven will come down and destroy them! Is this the point Mark is making? The only race or religion that hates Jews is Islam. The only religion that forces you to die or believe, is Islam. He has a very good point.

[JPVeigaaaa]

Important video everyone should see.

I'm going to read Mark Steyn's previous works. His words are profound.

[DESTROYER68483]

so why do the dates keep changing, the more they change the more fake it sounds.

[WeToldYouSo1]

I don't like the censorship here. Stop to manipulate your comment section here. That's so undemocratic, typically USA Stanford University!

[epidrom]

the part with america has its troops cause of the economy for germany ist total crap, sry...

[5hittter]

Looking carefully at Mark Steyn ,you will see that he has African blood in him.Also ,the reason that European people have few children is ALCOHOL.

Alcohol reduces the sexual need of men and women.At the same time,because most of Europeans are Atheist,they believe in enjoying this life with drinks and drugs.Not to mention that European are under a lot of stress to make money.

SO,European should blame themselves ONLY.

[stockinettestitch]

I don't know how this Steyn can stay as calm as he does while spouting the utter-truth which is so bleak. Thank God for him, I hope more people watch and act on this.

[mocvailable02]

Europe needs more people like Mark Steyn!

[ContolGFK]

How people can follow a cult with such rules:

Qur'an 2:191: And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.

[afghanafghan]

"God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His light is as if there were a niche and within it a lamp: The lamp enclosed in glass: The glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! God doth guide whom He will to His light: God doth set forth parables for men: and God doth know all things."

[edit] [Qur'an 24:36]

[mta415]

@robz40 whoever controls petroleum can and will control most of the world. China don't have reserve of the oil so even with our debt to them they will never completely control the US. the US is destroying itself from within and selling itself by the pound...

[TerrierToughGuy]

My vote is destroy Islam.

[azamjaved]

@TerrierToughGuy your forefathers have tried before ...check the history , yes you can kill Muslims but can not kill Islam ..Islam is a divine way of life there will always be people of conscience to accept it and follow it. you seem to be inspired by this Racist and redneck who lost to civil right movement and now he has the same philosphy about Muslims, he is so confused and scared by the values which were preached by Jesus,Moses and Mohammad .what a shame.

[robz40]

funny how he forgot about China. Chinese will dictate our future, not the Arabs.

[TerrierToughGuy]

@robz40

You really dont get it huh?

[OneCerebralSamurai]

Most of the points in this video are so obvious to any rational, observant person as to be trite. It's been obvious for some time that Western Civilization is in a very steep decline. Giving a highly advanced technological civilization to people who are culturally and morally still in the bronze age will not end well.

[BerlinMusikmaker]

Why you think it must come the end , speak about the new beginning of the world .

[tedwilson79]

Mark Steyn is an inltelligent speaker and an engaging writer, but I find his affected speech very distracting. Wasn't you born in Tah' rantah Mark?

[sidkings]

Alot of these old pubs and churches are now masjids. Who's gonna pay £3 for a pint? LOL.. I don't accept his views on the supposedly what muslims think of the holocaust, the holocaust was the catalyst for the occupation of Plaestine.

Bangladesh's birth rate has dropped to 2.7 from 7 but it will still continue to be over populated.

[StPauli321]

29:00 "US taxpayers pay for the german healthcare-system."

What a ridiculous statement! Doesn't he know about the Bundeswehr?

[TerrierToughGuy]

@StPauli321

The point he was making is that they were able to spend money on filthy socialism rather than defense and that American military presence contributes huge amounts of money to the German economy.

[ryukXsayu27]

THIS IS NOT SETH ROGEN! idiots.

[Quickgate]

We need more people like Mark Steyn

[MiladMania]

Pure crap.

[joeycusack80]

What Steyn say about the European populations demonstrating about Government "not doing enough for them" is true. It's ridiculous here in Europe,Governments raise taxes to pay for The Welfare State(which people voted for) and people then complain.

[Stn3dRaid3r]

whoever they are and wherever they are, I think that people who run the show in general (institutes & goverments) should stop treating commoners like cattle and have this process of elimination for "success" changed to a system that actually gives a fuck. Skipping certain history for instance however sinister it is, imo it shouldn't be done for how are we supposed to learn from our mistakes if we don't know what these are and have to learn about these "mistakes" thru "unconventional" means...

[leemouse]

Why has this very important video only had 27,000 hits and a mere 97 comments?

[RealTime88]

@leemouse Why is the opnion of a conservative pundit the most important video ever? What the hell is so great about being a conservative? I could never do that. Ever!

[7beers]

@leemouse Because everyone's watching Lady Gaga.

[Savechildrens]

The real owner of this planet in the mightly God and this arrangment you talked about made by him because the earth will be owned by people who believe in God and whorshiping Him .No one can stop the God,s PLAN even with force it will not succeed .Arrogancy and called civilized world is in th edge of the hell and leading all human being to hell . Culture , tech must approach people to God but we see the opposit , we can talk as much as we can but we can not change th destiny.

[dunedain101]

Meanwhile in France..

New history program in college. Napoleon and Louis XIV replaced by African history and moved at the end of the program "the part never teached cause time lacks", French revolution part also shortened..

All mosques build in France are 30% funded with public taxes, despite our principle of laicity and State/Religion separation law..

Show of strength in French cities, muslims block roads with the help of private guards and pray in public by hundreds, police do nothing..

[seanmPWH]

@dunedain101 There will not be world peace until everyone eats pork.

[MoaiMaea]

Why would they? It’s not illegal to pray in public.

[SiCGaming123]

@dunedain101 I've been in France, and they are really good at teaching history (patriotism), it's not an insult, cause everyone is.

The problem is that France is probably most tolerant country in the world.

[7beers]

@SiCGaming123 In what ways is France most tolerant country?

[emforty2]

he is a good observer nothing else while all of us are busy working or watching football

china i worry more they own us and eventually the soil that your sitting on

[Dabhach1]

Interesting, and he's hitting a lot of my personal buttons, but just off the top of my head he mentions the assassination of a British viceroy of India by Islamic forces in the 19th century. Yes, the Earl of Mayo was assassinated by a Muslim, but it was not as the result of any kind of Islamic conspiracy; the assassin was acting out of personal motives. If Steyn is wrong about such a basic item, what else is he misconstruing?

[royal3001]

I wish Mark was wrong, but he isn't, we are weak, not willing to tell those who want to harm us to just piss off !

[Delta4ms]

As if theres some big muslem conspiracy to take over. yea right and when we finally meet the aliens then we will have to worry about them.

Actually that might not be so bad because then we can unite all humankind against the aliens..... and on it goes.

[hablerz]

214 people liked this and 13 people wish to kill the infidel.

[Quickgate]

Did you know that Mohammed is now the most popular name for baby boys ahead of Jack and Harry (LONDON (AFP), October 27)?

Mohammed was the most popular name for newborn baby boys in England and Wales in 2009, according to official data released Wednesday.

[Live4Britain]

Mark Steyn is absolutely correct.The Western world must wake up and act now if it wants to surive.

Multiculturalism is nothing but a slow, bloodless genocide.

[12ut5]

34:00-35:00 immigration

[RamiusChase]

Hopefully Europe will see this and start screwing each other like there's no tomorrow. Because that's what's gonna happen - there will be no tomorrow.

[MultiUniv3rsal]

18:00 He mentions Brahms and Mozart. Mozart didn't focus on devotional works and Brahms, well he WAS an atheist. Or at least akin to one of his day and age. He should have used Bach as an example.

While I get his point, I think he's mis-representing Hitchens' (another Hoover Fellow) stance on things religious.

[gdbalck]

@MultiUniv3rsal With regards to Brahms and Mozart, Mark sighted specifically their Requiem Masses. Both of which are indisputably Christian works and together with Verdi's Requiem, among the greatest musical compositions of Western music. He made his point. Religion was the basis for the works.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@Dear me! Stupidity should be henceforth measured in Americans! They are so stupid that they do not even see that their forces stationed in Germany and Japan are not for protection but for occupation; once the Americans pull their forces out the Germans will dispatch their foul minions, which they have installed their after they deposed the motorway rule to do their bidding; and then Germany and Japan will stop trading with the USA anymore as the Dollar is worthless!

[SDlidingo]

A fantasic interview that will open the minds of the European countries.

[ChrisTheCrazy]

If the USA actually removed all her troops from Germany, I dont think Germany would spend more money of her budget on defensive measures. Also American troops dont just give the money away, they purchase goods. It's simply an economic process in which they buy goods for money, plain and simple. They're not financing anything. It's not like we would all the sudden replace American troops with German troops if they left. They dont take care of our defensive needs.

[ChrisTheCrazy]

They are not supposed to speak German in their very own communites and most of all they wont ever get to deal with German traditions, costums and patterns of German behavior and thinking. So what happens is that those ghettos actually eradicate any chance of creating a mutual way of understanding one another. What I personally expect migrants to do is to learn the language and live by the rules of our society instead of forming a parallel one next to ours.

[ChrisTheCrazy]

Let me tell you this, I am German. The one problem we have with Muslims/Arab poeple is basically that like no other immigrating group to Germany, Arab migrants seem to have the most problems adapting to German society. You will hardly find any Viatnamese "ghettos" in German cities but you sure will find large Arab communities in places like Berlin and Frankfurt.

[goeddedromm]

god, i'm quite afraid after watching this. what steyn says happens in germany for many years now and as soon as someone mentions that theres a problem with muslim immigration, this person is muzzled immediately. really frightening.

during the last election in my home town there were many political advertisments with turkish inscription..and even intelligent people think this development was good. most of the time i hope that all this is just a bad dream. i feel freakin helpless :(

[Bobduj1]

Mr. Mark Steyn is definitly one of the century's major intelectual figures.

[joeycusack80]

@Bobduj1 .Well I doubt the Lefties would agree. In the eyes of the Liberals,You can't be a Conservative and be an academic.

[unap16]

While I don't agree with everything Mr. Steyn has to say, the points on Islamic population and the implications are both terrifying and dead-on.

As long as humanity exists there will be conflicts. However, the current one with radicals trying to Islamise everything is the one we, the free thinking people, need to stop.

[getmessed]

its interesting that this video is so popular in sweden (according to the youtube statistic)

are things really that bad in malmö?

[shoooryuuuken]

@getmessed It sure is!

[ThinkerPool4]

Resolution 2 is inevitable. Islam belongs to the 6th century. If we don't pay heed now, our children or grand children will have to fight a bitter war a WWIII and we can't b sure whether they will win. Islam is much more resilient and idealistic than the Nazi ever was. Ask yourself this: If Hitler was Muslim would WWII be over today?

[leemouse]

Outstanding video but very frightening at the same time.

[LIVERLADD]

Steyn puts his views across far better than I with my more common tongue but we both agree something needs to be done

[Combine605]

Good video!

[Schniddo]

Western Muslim good, Eastern Muslim bad

Europe decided to import Muslims in order to sustain social democracy

Muslims will run pubs out of business

The holocaust is 'contentious' for Muslim children

He speaks nicely but what a load of speculative trash.. he even says himself that his *unofficial* birth figures are not likely to be sustained at current levels.

[martinkun167]

I think it needs to be mentioned that modern western countries try to create multicultural societies by reducing the importance of traditional culture in general -- hence, the multicultural state ought to function as one in which culture is stripped of its priority as the identifier of a society. Western countries have achieved this with regard to THEIR OWN culture, but due to political correctness they are not doing the same with the cultures of the immigrants living in them.

[LIVERLADD]

@martinkun167

Your bang on the button with what you said. and thats the big problem. But there are members of the middle class in my country " Britain" who are full of self loathing for their own culture and National identity that they are only to glad to crush any feeling of national pride and identity.

[ThinkerPool4]

@martinkun167 It is ok to call the Pope an idiot. It is ok to make joke of christianity, to criticise it. But when it comes to Islam.... just opening our mouth is an offence!

[msmarch4]

Best vid on youtube. This is exactly what's happening in Sweden. I only hope it's not to late for us..

[meluha99]

OK guys. This has to stop now. Wake up and start acting.

[sucka23454321]

Also, the only other thing that I have to say is that I dislike how he uses global statements about groups.

[sucka23454321]

Although I disagree with Mark Steyn on basically every issue (:P) But he is very interesting and I read his material in Maclean's all the time. I believe it is important to listen to all points (within reason, not Srah Palin or neo-Nazis) of view. I don't agree wit him, but he is very interesting.

[DeathToTV4Sweden]

And Mark Steyn is my god, everything that comes out of his mouth enlightens me. Hope he will visit Sweden soon!

[magnusTheDead]

How can such an intelligent guy slip up so badly on the issue of healthcare? The reason the government is having to step into that particular arena has nothing to do with people's inability to choose for themselves or act responsibly and has everything to do with the fact that health insurance companies have been focussing more and more on profit and less and less on health care as time goes on, to the point where they are now entirely profit-driven and offer little in the way of support at all.

[supaman789]

@magnusTheDead socialist! Ugh. Have you ever heard of a thing called freedom? The freedom of not having the government stealing your income and spread your income as they like... It's really sad to see how people nowadays have no love for freedom, what-so-ever.

[abvmoose87]

Wahabist's funded the new mosque in Gothenburg. These people thinks it's ok to kill homosexuals and kill women who are unfaithful. The people who dared critisize the project were labeld racists

[YeOldeDogge]

Hitchens point that many muslim migrants are moderate and come "for a better life" fails to take account of one important fact. Their children born and raised in Europe are (increasingly) finding an identity for themselves in the muslims lands from which their parents came, and it is very often a radical muslim identity since our own bland 'multi-culturalism' has little to offer them.

[ehsanologi]

just wasted time that i will never get back. Funny how some mens insecurity poisons the atmosphere for all.

[Vikingskog]

What he says us true, all of it. Even here in Norway there are many muslims openly going berserk when the teachers try to teach them about the holocaust, some of them even start to cheer for hitler or threaten the life of the teachers.

In certain schools they have already stopped teaching about holocaust and anything related to jews, just to not "offend" muslims.

Norwegians are also heavily discriminated in muslim dominated schools, but nobody seems to care, political correctness.

[QuartuvLarry]

@Vikingskog That's just unbelievable! Your countrymen should NOT be taking this, laying down!

[tinahaithcock]

Mark Steyn hits the nail on the head. This is a video everyone should watch.It shows us the future of Europe, U.S., Canada, etc.

[KJenkinsAF1]

Enlightening, speaking truth to lies. Uncovering the eyes of the blind. Excellent interview.

[GreatJeca]

Seeing through the façade of intellectualism, I'm never impressed by consevadorism.

Defending nationalism, to gain support from popular groups scared by social transformations, and a minimum state, for the interest of a financial elite, only shows it is difficult to hide one's true intentions.

But Mr. Steyn is fighting a lost battle. The world has already seen the consequence of these ideas through a series of wars, economic crises, and violation of human rights.

We are not going back.

[pertube8]

Brilliant!

[Search4Knowledge]

The Netherlands are skipping WW2 in the educational system? What a bull shit, this man needs to come here and see it for himself. You are reminded of the WW2 and Holocaust every friggen month.

[gaastra12]

@Search4Knowledge that's actually true, i live in the netherlands, and it is being skipped here in amsterdam, and its always being joked over

[croscream]

The conservatism of Steyn here is part of the problem: Conservatism is aging, passive, negative and to intellectual.

What we need are people with a sporting mentality: Young, aggressive, positive and physical.

Of course Steyn thinks it's the end, he is unable to bend his intellectual mind around and understand that there are people not like him, not like the average political ideologue.

Al it would take to turn the tide is action, deeds and outrage.

[schlogz]

@Reveal1912 capitalism hasn't worked much better ie. environmental destruction, greedy corporations, destruction of american middle class, rising poverty rates. civilization needs a new ideology in order to survive

[croscream]

@schlogz

That isn't capitalism but corporatism. The government and the corporations work together in order to create a stable ''order''

[aWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

and now look at the situation with the Israel....I would say Mark saw this comming.

[DanielHeartland]

Keep posting these! They're so insightful!

[bodillard]

Great Watch !

[coinage23]

Great stuff

[rerevisionist]

Why doesn't he mention the obvious fact that immigrants get PAID and PAID A LOT to breed? They also get free housing - the taxpayers (and loans) pay their housing - and this money goes to rather well hidden housing organisations.

[schlogz]

@rerevisionist i see this myself where immigrants (whose legal status of their family is questionable) receive nice fat checks from the government whereas others of a similar economic level receive none. it is frustrating!

[MetalHeadViking]

Great, great interview!!!

[skr1blz]

So he just states that mass immigration is a sign of structural weakness in society and doesn't justify of explain that outrageous argument in any way?

[skr1blz]

This was interesting until about 15 minute mark, and then it devolved into poorly thought out and illogical nonsense.

[Halo4Lyf]

Islam ends the day they pop off a WMD in an American city. It would take only half our Trident-armed SSBN fleet to eradicate the Islamic World.

[CruelSkies]

The decline in British pubs is ongoing and has come about due to continual budgets raising alchol taxes, the trend toward healthier lifestyles amongst the young, the introduction of the smoking ban and the relatively lower cost of alchol in supermarkets. To try and put there already forecast demise on an as yet non existent horde of muslim babies is ridiculous!

[rllang01]

I'm laughing because Steyn is so right. And I'm crying because Steyn is so right.

[tjmac7]

Nature promotes the most efficient and disgards those most inefficient systems.

[rllang01]

@tjmac7, Dont you mean "discard" ?

[croscream]

What better way to unite Europe then the threat of Islam? Wait 2 years when the economy has collapsed, then you will see rage and anger we need.

[schlogz]

@croscream could europe return to the ways of 1930s-40s Germany in handling this situation of unwanted people? wait and see...

[croscream]

@schlogz

No, technology will allow use to monitor and transport them much better. Most Muslims as long as they don't join the fighting will simply be removed.

[JoeFernackerpan]

Isn't it refreshing for an interviewer to actually listen to the answers, instead of butting in and shouting like those on BBC!

[1878EFC2008]

I liked him in 'Superbad'

[Slacker1967]

Awesome talk.

If only people in power would listen to this guy.

One sound-bite that I will use from this talk will be: "A dependence on mass immigration is a sign of a structural defect in a society."

How true that sentence is and just look what it has done to the UK :(

[TheJuddajeddi]

From my interpretation of this we have been used as a testing ground since the 40's or 50's...One thing sticks out, is his warning for America. Not to let mass imigration of islam into America because of whats happened in Europe. Does that mean we are fucked !

[ENDEUARABIA]

and then you have the 60 plus million abortions in the UK since 1967

and the marxist labour party have already closed thousands of UK Pubs by taxing them to death...to make way for the domination of Islam

[miiawh]

wonderful ,informative and instructive !

[WiredDragoon]

Mark is a great guy, and his example of the Muslim minister-in-waiting in Germany certainly is correct (minister of education in Lower Saxony), but what he failed to tell the interviewer was that there was quite a heavy backlash against her, politically and publically. Europe may be dying out, but we're not quite dead yet. Some of us won't go easily into the long night.

[imnotgivingmynametou]

The statistic about the Muslim population increasing ten times more than that of the general British population (on top of immigration) is definitely true - if not a higher rate than that.

[Mcygee]

Very interesting. Well worth the 38 minutes.

[Williyf]

has anyone read Isaac Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy? This strikes me as very similar to it.

[chaconj]

is that the guy from pineapple express???

[CrackerJackLee]

those in the political left are constantly barraged by foreigners on a professional and a personal basis... call it ethnic lobbying...? like shock-troops, they strive to control the left to do their bidding... their tools of enticement include solicitation through recognition and generation of pity... also political voting blocks, fear of being publically shamed by politically correct vigilantes... even sex is used as a tool to convert the thinking of those who follow the left ideology...

[CrackerJackLee]

i heard a politician in Canada once say that we should not worry about the brain drain as our most trained professionals head south to the US for money... he said "they are being replaced by immigration... not to worry..." self-neutering... good term...

[CrackerJackLee]

LOL! permanent adolescence... ball caps, short pants, running shoes, tee shirts... my father and his father used to wear suits... today i go to work with grown men in ball caps etc...

[TylerNull]

To fund their socialist Ponzi-type schemes, the Europeans imported Muslim breeders, whereas the US imported Mexicans. This is the first guy I've heard acknowledge that point.

[jahartmu]

I can hardly imagine a 38-minute YouTube video more worth watching. Peter Robinson asks interesting questions and moderates well. Mark Steyn is razor-sharp, entertaining, and has probably the coolest accent on Earth.

Anyone with an interest in politics or current events should watch this video.

[promisedeyes]

@jahartmu I couldn't have said it better myself.

The most interesting thing about Steyn to me is that you can never place his dialect. It's part British, part Canadian, and yet very American-- all in the same time.

[MrJST87]

@promisedeyes

It's a blatant English accent.....

[KeanOOO]

@jahartmu Try this: watch?v=jj8rMwdQf6k (My favourite)

[jaraid]

Mark Steyn not only funny but very informative

[txfirehawk]

I love Mark and really love it when he hosts Limbaugh's show. I also HATE round-abouts.. Meadows Place Texas is trying to ram 4 of them in a row all within a 1/2 mile down our throats... City council member stands to get the construction contract.. whole thing STINKS! We could use your help Mark! <3

[darkknight91]

@txfirehawk Yeah, he's a wild guy to say the least. Has a lot of insight when it comes to America following in the exhaust of Europe.

[Calamarion]

awesome