Today I had an unexpected treat. Cycling with my family in glorious weather on the the Waterford Greenway, a 30-mile walking and cycling trail formed by paving over an old railway line. Everything was perfect. Clean and perfectly maintained bikes, not a trace of litter on the well-maintained billiard-table smooth path, hundreds of cyclists and walkers, cheery greetings all round, everybody adhering to trail protocols, secure in the knowledge that in the event of an emergency rapid response teams were on hand. Is this trail a work of genius in terms of imagination, innovation, design, engineering and management? Well hardly. More a case of a job well done.
But then again....maybe it is a work of genius in its own way. White genius for creating and operating such amenities. Look at it this way. Can you imagine if it were somehow transported to a black location such as Baltimore or Detroit? Or somewhere in Mexico, Brazil or Pakistan? For a start the bikes would be badly-maintained death traps. We can be assured that few if any would be returned to the rental shop, instead being stolen outright, cannibalised for parts or thrown over a ditch at journey's end. Would a naive White traveller get even a mile down the road before being being barged off the trail by a gang of "youths", or more likely mugged or raped? Would not the trail itself quickly degenerate into a litter-strewn potholed barely passable dirt track?We all know the answer. So the genius lies in Whites' abilities to nurture high-trust, efficient, productive and peaceable societies in a way no other race can with the possible exception of the Japanese. That's why everyone in the Third World wants, as an Austrian politician noted, 'to live like Europeans but not to work like Europeans'.
Touche!
Enjoy your own local equivalents of the Waterford Greenway while you can. Because diversity is headed your way.
