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The US invented the terms first world, second world, and third world. The "second world" isn't talked about much anymore because it was meant to describe the USSR. Ironically, the USA can no longer claim to be a first world nation. In the last few years we've become a theocratic example of the second world.
The USSR collapsed and we took their place as the not-quite-civilized yet unfortunately well-armed crazies.
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The real Jewish Question may be explained as follows: If there is so much emerging from the Jewish Quarter which is threatening to Western culture and to the white race which founded that culture, then how can the West allow itself the luxury of retaining the Jews in its midst? This is not, of course, to say that all Jews are bad, or even most of them; it is rather
to say that -- to use an unfortunate but apt analogy -- if a swamp keeps breeding malaria, then no matter how many innocent beings the swamp may contain, are we not justified in draining it? There is, of course, no
denying that Jews have made great contributions to the West, and no denying that their contributions are significantly out of proportion to their numbers, as is their intelligence. But there is also no denying that Jewish good must be balanced against Jewish evil, and that if Jewish evil is so profound as to be threatening the demise of Western civilization,
then the amount of Jewish good -- however great it might be -- may not really matter. But in speaking of Jewish good and Jewish evil, we seem to be engaging in the morally dubious act of judging Jews as collectively responsible for this good or evil, rather than judging them on their individual behavior. But while it is all very well to aspire to judge people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin -- or in the case of Jews, by their ethnicity -- it is another thing entirely to be able to know the content of an individual's character. Thus while skin color, ethnic origin, or other group designator is a highly imperfect vehicle for judging character, it nevertheless gives some information, and thus makes possible a probability judgment. Accordingly, if we cannot determine the individual's character, we would be as foolish to refuse to make a probability judgment based on ethnicity as we would be to refuse to ignore the likelihood that a visitor to a casino is going to leave with his wallet lightened, or that playing Russian roulette is likely to get you killed. Thus in spite of a moral preference for judging the individual rather than the collective, the fact remains that, to some degree or another, Jews will be held collectively responsible for the acts of Jewish individuals. The matter does not rest purely on probability considerations, however, but on the fact of what philosophers call emergent properties, ie, the fact that
the group may exhibit properties which are not manifest in individuals. The classic example of emergent properties is salt, which is composed of sodium and chlorine: While both of these substances are poisonous
separately, their combination as sodium chloride is essential to life; hence the life-giving properties of salt are 'emergent'. Likewise, while isolated individual Jews are, by and large, good citizens, their
combination as part of the 'Jewish nation' may give that nation an 'emergent' character which is lethal to the West.
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