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Without giving away the plot, the guy makes a series of bad decisions which lead to scenes like this where he is sleeping in an ATM box. Eventually he illegally crosses the China-Burma border in an ill-judged attempt to sell his US passport. Apparently they fetch up to 15k.pic.twitter.com/K3pZKu7fqu
The book does a good job at using this story to highlight US-China relations in general and how much the prospects of American youth have fallen in comparison to China’s. I’m sure most of my based followers here will have their own theories how that became so.pic.twitter.com/lUn8EUMITn
There’s a more detailed review in Paddy Buchanan’s American Conservative about this book which is how it came to my attention. It gives a more thorough analysis than I can do justice here.https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/fleeing-middle-america-for-homelessness-in-china/ …
There are some great Boomerish comments on that review too. This one gotta be my favourite. “Why don’t these kids just find a job in a Chinese factory?”pic.twitter.com/lmJ1vYkGyp
There are thankfully some better comments. I especially liked this quote by R Tsukazaki: “Lonely, unnecessary men with no marketable skills are not in short supply among American millennials.”pic.twitter.com/X3M76dVzfc
This comment aligns with a typical theme of this account: places like Midwest US and northern England are becoming clearly dysgenic. The brain drain is real and it is having severe effects on non-metropolitan areas of all countries.pic.twitter.com/5oBVkXIMOB
“For several generations, the smart kids have left these Midwest towns, leaving behind an increasingly dumber population of people who can't manage their own lives nor the businesses and towns they inherit.” La luz extinguido is real.pic.twitter.com/VOqDMPhkJO
Guys like the one in the book did relatively well in the past before the US outsourced good working-class jobs. When left to fend for themselves to compete in a global tech-oriented marketplace... they fail. We can’t exactly blame the Chinese for that.pic.twitter.com/885SuFgUvm
You can certainly blame young men like this for their miserable existence, but this, to me, is the same contempt that Hillary and many other Progressives have for the "deplorables." Capital relentlessly favours the competitive. But can’t we do something to help our own?pic.twitter.com/T3iyYneVIx
The book is only a few dollars on Kindle so do show a good author some support. It’s important to support non-Blue Cheka writers and do your bit to chip away at the stranglehold the bugmen have on publishing. Recommended. https://www.amazon.com/American-Bum-China-bumblingly-expatriate-ebook/dp/B07XJZMSK6 …
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