According to Wikipedia, the Tinkerbell effect describes those things that exist only because people believe in them. The effect is named for Tinker Bell, the fairy in the play Peter Pan who is revived from near death by the belief of the audience. [Examples] include:
- the rule of law,
- money not backed by, e.g., a gold standard,
- the power of the vote.
James Fulford at the VDARE blog brings to our attention a story in the Framingham, Massachusetts, MetroWest Daily News about Brazilian illegal immigrants choosing to return to their homeland. The reason most frequently cited seems to be a lower exchange rate.
Yup, you read that right. As the geniuses who run our government continue to spend like drunken sailors, the value of our Monopoly money has sunk so low that not even illegal aliens want to be bothered with it. Is Tinker Bell about to kick the bucket?
I certainly hope that we can avoid repeating the experience of Argentina. Obviously, such an event would be much worse in multicultural America. Upon discovering that their dollars no longer bought anything like the customary amount of crack cocaine, our violent urban underclass would burn all of our larger cities to the ground simultaneously. If the foreigners who supply most of our manufactured goods and petroleum were to stop accepting the dollar, we'd see widespread starvation and violent anarchy.
On the bright side, most government dependents and illegal aliens live in cities, and would therefore die off in disproportionate numbers. There would be no incentive for third worlders to immigrate for quite some time. Socialism would have been utterly discredited as a political ideology, all of its adherents having been winnowed out of the gene pool. Even so, none of this would be any fun.
2 comments:
I was just wondering: Do you suppose that our bankrupt buck might be the Administrations way of getting the illegals to go back where they came from? I mean, If the US dolar is eventually worth no more than the Mexican Peso, would the invaders figure out that they might as well be at home and reverse the flow direction?
Just stumbled across your comment today, catmoves. I think that, when the dollar falls so low that the government can no longer provide for its welfare dependents, we'll see considerable urban violence and many changes occurring very quickly. The illegals might indeed go home, but I doubt that such an outcome is intended by our ruling class.
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