You want to know the real existential threat to mankind?
It’s not global warming.
It’s not plastic straws.
It’s not white privilege.
It’s mankind itself.
To put a finer point on it, it’s a certain segment, a certain type, an ancient gene set which is the existential threat to mankind.
For example, one type of human looks up at the moon and it inspires him to write a love song. Another type looks up and wonders. What is it? How did it get there? What are all those other twinkling lights up there. He has the need to know. To learn. To explore. He wants to get to the moon, but doesn’t want to disturb it or anything else in nature. He just wants to know and learn.
These are positive types, contributors to our fountain of art, science and knowledge.
But there’s a third type. He looks up at the moon and thinks How can I exploit it? How can I make it mine? How can I profit from it? Maybe get a bunch of human or robotic slaves to mine it so I can be the richest man in history? Or he thinks How can I use this moon to propel my political career?
He may be able to sell his ideas to you because he knows you are curious about the moon too. This type is an exploiter. He is anathema, has no passion to advance mankind. Indeed, in his quest for power, because he is convinced that he is right about anything he thinks, he will do anything, say anything, run over anyone to get what he wants. And what he wants can’t be interpreted, in any way shape or form, as a good thing for the human race.
There is a sub-set of this type. Those mean-spirited people who don’t have what it takes to achieve anything worthwhile on their own, but who attach themselves to the exploiters, who then abuse their little positions of authority, enjoying the opportunity to make your life miserable.
As we look around today, the exploiter dominates the news. He and she are in every field of endeavor, exploiting everything that crosses their path.
A young fellow creates a website that becomes incredibly popular in a short time, making him one of the wealthiest men in the world. Is he satisfied to be wealthy... to live a lifestyle which can only be dreamt of by mere men... to be able to use his wealth to help those who need help? No. He wants to control you, and as soon as possible, the world.
Another fellow builds the most successful on-line sales organization in history, making him possibly the wealthiest entrepreneur in history. Is he satisfied? No. This exploiter also wants to control the world.
A hurricane destroys an island nation. How can I exploit the disaster for my benefit? How can I play on my fellow man’s sympathies to generate profit for me? There, my friend, is the trick. They use your sincere sympathies against you, to control you and your very beliefs. They make you feel guilty of things of which you are not now, nor have ever been guilty.
The list of those who control you, what you do, what you eat, what you buy, think, say or do is growing exponentially. They are today’s social dictators. Tyrants in their domains, but they are not satisfied with their domains, they seek to control everyone on planet Earth.
They know who you are, every one of you. When and where you were born. Who your parents, ancestors and extended families are. Where you live, how much money you have, what kind of car you drive, where you drive it, what you do, what you buy, what’s in your refrigerator, what you say on-line, who you know, what kind of sex you enjoy, what kinds of pills you take, what you eat, smoke and drink. What breed of dog you like. What you feed your pets. How many guns you have, where you buy your ammo. What bank you use, what kind of checks, credit cards and stocks you own. Your credit rating. Your debts. How much you weigh, what music you like, what brand of shoes you wear, how many parking tickets you’ve had, your medical history, what clubs and political parties you are associated with. Where you go to school, church or to party. They know every on-line word you ever posted regardless of how you try to hide your actual identity.
Believe it... they know who you are. Next time you get something as simple as a parking ticket, if “they” don’t like you for your politics, or your color, or your religion, they can bring all of it up at the touch of a keyboard, and your parking ticket can become a nightmare.
Everything about you is now searchable on-line. It’s all available in milliseconds from enormous banks of digital storage. And they profit from your private information, which is no longer private because you willingly or inadvertently agreed to turn it all over to them in return for nothing but using their platforms to unwittingly give them more and more information about you. You are being willingly exploited.
The exploiters, my friends, are the real existential threat to freedom, to the sovereignty of your nation, and decency in this world. Because while they are convinced they are right about everything... they are not. Measured by what tradition said was success, they are geniuses. After all, isn’t human technical progress driven by the exploiters? Of course. But the Good Book warns against evil genius. And this type of genius is an existential threat when the evil outweighs the genius.
