Do your country’s economic leaders tell you that immigration is the solution to your stalled retail sales?

What if the sources of immigration, other countries, have created viable economic models of their own and can no longer afford to export their labour?

When the world’s labour pool is shrinking, due to decreased birthrates and increased senior citizen ranks, what should our national, let alone our global, economic expansion plans look like?

When people are living longer and suffering debilitating but not terminal diseases, on whose healthy backs shall they ride when the labour pool keeps getting smaller?

Are these anthropological signs of a species in transition?

What about the growing automation trends?

Can small groups — families and subcultures — survive with one or two children per generation but with large numbers of networked bots growing their food, reading their thoughts and designing objects to meet their wants/needs, manufacturing their goods, providing their services and caring for them when they’re sick?

Nuclear families were the epitome of health until we started paying attention to the tunnel vision and dysfunctional family traits that become unhealthy quickly.

Can we monitor and control the mass media exposure that influences families and destroys them because of the mismatch between the family’s set of changing (as opposed to [allegedly] unchanging) values and the set of values in flux that are implied by the unmanaged onslaught of advertising, each advert designed for a set of potential customers that may have nothing to do with the next advert’s set of potential customers?

If a person can get PTSD from watching too much coverage of a bad news event, then can we also experience similar trauma from too much exposure to disjointed sets of adverts, news events and disparate subcultures?

How do we know when it’s safe to let ourselves and our children see the universe in its neutral state, neither desiring us harm nor offering us good?

How do we know that immigration or emigration is really good for us if economic prosperity cannot protect from our worst fears?