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POPULATION, ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE:
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Anyone with a modicum of common sense soon notices that the accelerating increase in the population of human beings is “out of whack” with any decent regard for harmony with the rest of the biosphere. This is not meant as a paean to paganism, but to respect the most common ground needed for civilization. The obvious way to “recover whack” would generally be to incentive families to exercise moderation in restraint of appropriate sizes for households. This could be accomplished with general, civilized tax incentives for contraception, instead of with inhumane, brute force. However, any such effort conflicts with cronies whose power or financial gains are dependent on replenishing stocks of cheap, ignorant labor. It also conflicts with megalomaniacs whose empires are dependent on replenishing stocks of canon fodder and preserving control over collectives for generating technological superiority. Cronies and dupes are usually motivated more by desire to groom, soothe, and milk aphids than by desire to disseminate intelligent analysis of facts.
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Aside from aesthetics and insults to human freedom and dignity, the burgeoning of organizations of human beings brought under tight harness of an allied establishment of corporatist-collectivists is obviously closely associated with rapid interruptions in harmonies of other species with which we share the planet. Some destructive species of jellyfish and insects, in their patterns of migration, ARE expanding further from the equator, leading to potential decimation of other species of plants and animals. Rates of change are accelerating among patterns for habitats, coastlines, farmlands, and deserts. True, as floating ice melts, the water surface level will not immediately rise. However, as the melting is associated with general warming, all the water will expand and rise in level as it goes from a cold-but-unfrozen state to a warmer state. As larger populations become more and more dependent upon central organizations, any sudden and simple disruption in the central nervous system for an organization can easily bring catastrophe.
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Although the above states obvious truisms, it does not advocate switching back and forth in “sky-is-falling” panics between cronies and megalomaniacs. It does, however, suggest an obvious remedy (if not too long delayed): Simply institute general incentives for moderating sizes of families. As to any need to compete with megalomaniacs intent on building empires founded on military might based on technological advancements discovered by populous nurseries for mad scientists, consider: Computing power is accelerating at such a pace that brute numbers of scientists would seem likely to as soon become as obsolete as human fighter pilots. For middle class Americans to fight the common sense of general incentives for population reduction is to reduce themselves to mere flotsam, to be pushed back and forth for the use and abuse of contending and cynical cronies and corruptocrats and their climate-consensus carbon-crediting calculators. So long as a reasonable, responsible intelligentsia fails to assimilate among the middle class, it will continue to be reduced to cheap fodder for crony corporate collectivists, i.e., open-society free-traders of human beings as commodities to be connived among “those who know best.”
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By itself, motive to profit is not essence of God. Like any other civilizing epiphenomena, it needs for its conservation to be tempered with civilizing empathies, lest it become self-devouring unto a pit. Such tempering is accomplished by processes of cultural identification and assimilation, not by severing loyalties to God, humanity, kin, and country. There’s little need or advantage in debating with cronies and dupes whose status and livelihoods depend upon disagreeing. Simply state the obvious facts and the obvious remedies. That is, if the goal is civilization that avails decent freedom and dignity for all who incline to want it.
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Re: "fanatical opposition to the idea of internationalism"
To me, this points up some blinders on the author's viewpoint. One can, and I think should, be opposed to some aspects of internationalism. The purpose is grand, not insular. The purpose is to preserve an island exemplar for human freedom and opportunity --- against all lands whose inhabitants have few capacities, inclinations, or traditions that are compatible with freedom and opportunity for their citizens. A viable and relatively free middle class is a rare thing. Once such a flower is planted, one who cares for it does not carelessly open it up to weeds that ravage the world. That is, unless one does not prize a free middle class or expects personal gain by helping those who are bent on uprooting it.
As the rest of the world becomes a toilet for despots, why think it small minded to want to preserve a vestige of hope for freedom and dignity? Has our openness to internationalism made other lands better, or has it instead enriched and empowered despots, who now apply their riches and power more to corrupt politicians in America than to improve lives for their own peoples? If we concentrated more on presenting an example than on enriching despots, I suspect not only we, but many peoples abroad, would be better off. The idea that elites can and would, by freely trading technological expertise with despots, make better the lives of all the little people of the world, smacks of rulers who think to do best by reducing middle class voices of ordinary Americans to inconsequential pips.
While leverage availed by power of re-organization CAN raise all boats, it WILL NOT, by itself, raise liberty and economic opportunity among the masses. Qualitatively raising liberty and opportunity for a middle class requires that respect for humanity be exemplified and inspired, rather than that brawn be harnessed by elites in search of cheapest labor. When considered against pet programs of organizing elites, human freedom and dignity are coming to be qualitatively not valued. Minds yearning for liberty are being lulled asleep by cheap diversions and misleading philosophies of experts pretending to be wise enough to quantify non-quantifiables. The only hope for re-igniting liberty in America is for enough leaders among the masses to begin to recognize deceptions and delusions pandered about in established ways of thinking.
The lie used to sell dupes on various brands of open-borders collectivism (international socialism and corporatism) relates to the idea that governors and elites will serve the interests of the people. The reality is that collectivizers and organizers put a boot on the necks of cheap laborers (i.e., record, regulate, or control minutiae of their lives) to hold them in place for milking and fleecing. That method has been developed and perfected over all these long years. Socialism is one of the fairy tales used by power-worshippers to divert attention from boots on necks.
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