It's still not worth it, if they don't genuinely love America...and that's really hard to vet. I'm generally in agreement with you, but even that sort of thing is very dangerous.
Look at post-WW2. We imported all the Marxists, communists, and socialists to do rocketry, nuclear, and the like. I'm not sure what the numbers were, but certainly much, much less than our current immigration numbers. And they completely fucked the country, perhaps irreparably so.
A relatively small number of subversives can do massive cultural damage so, if we are going to try to poach the geniuses, we have to select for more than just skill, intelligence, and accomplishment. Even that's not enough. That said, considering we have so many Americans who hate America nowadays, grabbing a few geniuses is still probably a net gain in the current scheme of things.
You’re describing the importance of coherence. You can only change so much before you are no longer the same thing. Nationalism is pride in who you are and what you came from, which is why subversives work so hard to demonize and destroy it - so they can replace “who you are” with what they want you to be. Civic nationalism is just another type of subversion - anyone can become who you are, and take what you were given, if they say the right passwords.
You’re describing the importance of coherence. You can only change so much before you are no longer the same thing.
Ship of Theseus, and all that, yeah. That's part of it, but I was more talking individual subversives. You don't have to replace every part of the ship/nation, to change it drastically. You can leave most of the parts the same, but corrupt them. Think of it like termites versus replacing the parts. Termites, you'll have the same ship and pieces, but it will have been eaten away from the inside.
It's still not worth it, if they don't genuinely love America...and that's really hard to vet. I'm generally in agreement with you, but even that sort of thing is very dangerous.
Look at post-WW2. We imported all the Marxists, communists, and socialists to do rocketry, nuclear, and the like. I'm not sure what the numbers were, but certainly much, much less than our current immigration numbers. And they completely fucked the country, perhaps irreparably so.
A relatively small number of subversives can do massive cultural damage so, if we are going to try to poach the geniuses, we have to select for more than just skill, intelligence, and accomplishment. Even that's not enough. That said, considering we have so many Americans who hate America nowadays, grabbing a few geniuses is still probably a net gain in the current scheme of things.
You’re describing the importance of coherence. You can only change so much before you are no longer the same thing. Nationalism is pride in who you are and what you came from, which is why subversives work so hard to demonize and destroy it - so they can replace “who you are” with what they want you to be. Civic nationalism is just another type of subversion - anyone can become who you are, and take what you were given, if they say the right passwords.
Ship of Theseus, and all that, yeah. That's part of it, but I was more talking individual subversives. You don't have to replace every part of the ship/nation, to change it drastically. You can leave most of the parts the same, but corrupt them. Think of it like termites versus replacing the parts. Termites, you'll have the same ship and pieces, but it will have been eaten away from the inside.