Mankind Must Die So Mother Gaia Can Live
Or, "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute"
In another forum, an article was circulated asserting that mankind is guilty of "...excessive consumption of both material and financial resources."
Is our family having two cars “excessive”? Is even one car not “excessive” when public transportation is available? If I eat steak once a week, is that “excessive”? Once a month? If I set my air conditioner at 72 degrees, is that “excessive”? Does it make me too comfortable?
Excessive consumption?
Who gets to determine what is excessive? And by what measure is it deemed to be excessive?
Where is individual human freedom in this mix?
There is a dictator lurking somewhere in the shadows…
This idea that we are excessively consuming both material and financial resources - that we are playing a zero-sum, static game where the more we consume the smaller the pie - seems to me to be expressive of the retrograde, Luddite, radical globalist doctrine that mankind with all his progress is destroying the planet in every conceivable way, needs to be radically reduced in population and the small number allowed to remain forced back into the trees and caves in order to save Mother Gaia:
Otherwise, we are all doomed and the earth will die.
Nonsense, in my view - nothing more than another Big Lie intended to terrorize the people and render them docile and submissive in the face of rising tyranny.
The problem is not, as the globalist elites tell us, that the world's peoples - of course not the elites themselves - are over-consuming in some fundamentally destructive way that can only be remedied by a radical, jackbooted reduction in population and a drastic lowering of living standards. How, by the way, do you get from the current 8 billion people to the 2-3 billion the “experts” tell us is “sustainable”? How do you “reduce the population” by billions - say 5 or 6 billion - without killing people or letting them die?
The real problem is that the natural economy of mankind, rooted in individual freedom and law and order - where, within the bounds of an enlightened and just legal system, the multi-faceted wellbeing of the individual is the central and supreme ideological focus and the unhindered driver of economic activity - has been grossly corrupted and distorted in order to serve the interests of a privileged, intellectually, morally and spiritually corrupt few.
These are people who are above all focused on their own interests and egos - for example that World Economic Forum coterie of unelected, self-appointed, self-congratulatory, supremely arrogant pompous asses and aspiring tyrants who gather every year in Davos, Switzerland to tell each other how smart and superior they are - vastly better and smarter than you and me - and declare to our faces that they control the future and intend to create a world where we - not they - "will own nothing, have no privacy and be happy" - a world where you will be happy or else, because these hubristic demons intend to have power to kick you out of your home, shut down your bank account and generally deny you the means to stay alive if you do not submit to their diktats - all for your own good, of course.
In the real world - the world these asinine La-La Land aspiring dictators - laughable caricatures in the eyes of decent people - do not inhabit - the problem is not over-population or over-consumption, but, as I have long argued, pervasive intellectual, moral and spiritual rot - decadence, high and low.
If the world were governed by enlightened, intellectually, morally and spiritually sound leadership, and if the populations they led were equally enlightened - all focused on individual human liberty - we - all of us - would truly live in an earthly paradise, dwelling in alabaster cities with streets at least figuratively paved in gold - all within the bounds of the resources Mother Earth makes available to us.
For example, an intellectually, morally and spiritually enlightened free people, left to their own devices, and unhindered by the anti-agriculture ideological insanity - rooted in climate change fiction - that currently plagues agriculture around the world - could produce more than enough food for a worldwide population much greater than our present numbers.
The purported limitations on such food production, as asserted in the scaremongering Malthusian argument famously set forth in the 1968 book "The Population Bomb" - have proven - like the vast and hilarious collection of doomsday predictions stretching back decades - to be complete fictions. Remember, the world was regaled by the following doomsday promise from this book, supposedly written by "experts", in the year 1968:
"The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate..."
This dire prediction - 100's of millions dead of starvation in the 1970's - like the myriad similar doomsday predictions before and after, including dreadful foretellings of climate infernos - all intended to persuade people to give up their wealth and freedom in order to save their lives - has proven a pathetic joke. People should be laughing these authors to scorn, running them out of town on a rail - yet their nonsense had massive impact on the zeitgeist of the time and, though thoroughly debunked by actual history, still does have influence. Millions believed - and some still do believe - what they wrote to be true, just as millions today believe a "climate change" Armagedón is soon to descend upon us.
There is no question that P.T. Barnum got it exactly right when he observed, "There's a sucker born every minute." This hard and unforgiving fact provides both a problem for a society that aspires to root itself in truth and reality - the optimal state of existence for both individuals and societies - and an ongoing opportunity for ever-present grifters, high and low, always on the lookout for their next individual or collective sucker.
Young people today - the current crop of recently born suckers - mostly ignorant of history, have no idea how previous generations were suckered by Big Lies like those presented in the "Population Bomb" book. Unless they learn history, as one philosopher observed, "they are doomed to repeat it."
As Ronald Reagan noted, liberty and the intellectual, moral and spiritual knowledge it is built upon are not “passed to the next generation in the bloodstream" Each new generation must acquire the knowledge and commitment to stand up for liberty.
Unless young people educate and inform themselves - or unless they are taught and encouraged by their parents - they are as readily suckered by today's Big Lies, shoveled up by purported "experts", as were their forebears. The lies always have the same objective - to separate the people from their wealth and freedom. Our youthful present generations may live to see the day when only those of great age will remember, as Reagan said, “what life was like in America when men were free”.
As I have written previously, our country and our form of government were founded on the assumption that Americans were and would continue an intellectually, morally and spiritually enlightened people. I have previously provided quotes from our Founders - some of the greatest, wisest, best educated men who ever lived - regarding the fragility of the democratic Republic (not a “democracy”) they were creating for us, pointing out that "only a virtuous people are capable of freedom" (Franklin) and noting that "our Constitution was created only for a moral and religious people. It is entirely inadequate to the government of any other" (Adams).
Some readers will be aware of the question a woman on the street asked Ben Franklin as he left the Constitutional Convention: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what have you given us?" Franklin answered, "You have a Republic, madam - if you can keep it."
Because the threats to our democratic Republic have never been greater, Franklin's challenge is a more intensely burning question today than it ever has been before in our history.
Can we keep our Republic and the freedom is provides us?
Only our collective intellectual, moral and spiritual backbone will save the day. Is there enough of that left?
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, knowledge vs. ignorance, law vs. lawlessness, justice vs. injustice, order vs. chaos, liberty vs. tyranny, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, life vs. death, God vs. the Godless...
Hmmm..... Eenee-meenee-minee-mo.... Take your pick. You can't not choose...
If you can be fooled, you will be.
These are the times that try men's souls...
Torquemada