Age Before Duty

“The single most important fact about the early twenty-first century is the rapid aging of almost every developed nation other than the United States: Canada, Europe, and Japan are getting old fast, older than any functioning society has ever been and fast than any has ever aged. A society ages when its birth rate falls and it finds itself with fewer children and more grandparents . . . These countries—or, more precisely, these people—are going out of business” (Mark Steyn, America Alone, p. 2).