tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post4850783274455623417..comments2024-03-08T11:20:30.095-07:00Comments on Credit Bubble Stocks: Ciudad de MéxicoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-11296539849052299432019-10-21T10:58:34.820-07:002019-10-21T10:58:34.820-07:00Paul Theroux has a new book out that chronicles hi...Paul Theroux has a new book out that chronicles his recent car trip from the US border to the state of Chiapas, deep in the south of Mexico, further south, even, than the state of Oaxaca, and back to the US again.<br /><br />https://www.amazon.com/Plain-Snakes-Mexican-Journey-ebook/dp/B07LC9F6ZY<br /><br />Somebody told him he was lucky to get back to the US again, alive.<br /><br />He was.<br /><br />The problem is that Mexicans have bred themselves way above and beyond the carrying capacity of the land. There are small children everywhere. <br /><br />For example, the doorman at the last place I stayed in Mexico City had four children. He looked less than 25 years old. His wife looked to be 21- or 22-years old.<br /><br />The population of Mexico was manageable as recently as the 1990s.<br /><br />Years ago, back in the 1970s, it used to be safe and pleasant to go to Mexico.<br />A rich, young woman I used to know, back in the 1970s, used to drive a massive RV all the way to Costa Rica and back again, annually.<br /><br />If she tried to repeat that nowadays, she would be picked clean somewhere along the way.<br /><br />http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=18885<br /><br />Part of the US problem is that it is a safety valve for excess Mexican fertility.<br /><br />Theroux is sure to have virtue signaled about Mexico in his new book. I wonder how he actually made his way safely?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-67932445997562721792019-05-11T18:06:39.924-07:002019-05-11T18:06:39.924-07:00My grandpa was a socialist activist in Nicaragua, ...My grandpa was a socialist activist in Nicaragua, and eventually moved to the United States as a diplomat. When my dad was growing up, my grandpa told him the Beatles' were emblematic of capitalist Western culture, causing my dad to be indoctrinated in hatred of them for no reason at all, and my dad later passed on his dislike of the Beatles to me.<br /><br />Consequently, I hated the Beatles even before I'd heard any of their music. My first exposure to them was actually watching "The Yellow Submarine" sometime in elementary school, and I was totally repulsed by it: insipid, meaningless lyrics and haphazard storylines and plot that I could identify as drug-fueled even then. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com