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 Himself.
To put a finer point on it, it’s a certain type, an ancient genome.
For example, one human looks up at the moon and it inspires him to write a love song. Another looks up and wonders. What is it? How did it get there? What are all those other twinkling lights up there? He has a 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. Anathema. 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.
Then Jesus entered the temple
and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he
overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who
sold doves. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a den of robbers.” ~Matthew 21:12-17
Donald Trump is an affable guy. Anyone who knows the President knows that. One might think the hatred and vitriol aimed at the President would diminish two years into his term. So why is it growing in intensity?
The extreme anti-Trump positions taken by the current Democratic field of presidential wanna be’s is more a symptom rather than the actual reason for the hatred.
It’s one of the psychological tools of Marxism: accuse your opponent of the very thing you are guilty of. So when, after two years of an “investigation” which in the end went nowhere, Democrats continue to claim Trump is covering-up his Russia collusion, you can bet it’s because Democrats are covering up their own collusion. And we are about to see the evidence thanks to AG Barr.
There’s a kind of fear the Democrats and many Republicans have of Donald Trump. He is that bold outsider who has walked into DC like Jesus walked into the temple and overturned the money-changers’ table.
Oh, of course I am not for one moment comparing The Donald to Jesus. That would be absurd. Although I must say the President has been treated pretty poorly by the money changers, hasn’t he? And they are trying their best to crucify the President, aren’t they? But of course Jesus never had a successful tv show, so there’s that.
The reason for the fear and hatred in DC and the media is that they are, by all appearances, corrupt. I suspect the average American thinks the top echelon of virtually every Federal Department, the Congress – House and Senate– every Agency, every branch of the military, every class of lobbyist, every embassy, the unions, the media, the healthcare system – all of it – is to one degree or another corrupt. And while Trump himself may or may not have some business corruption in his past, whatever it might be, it’s paltry by comparison. He has not been part of the deep-seated DC corruption. As opposed to our DC corruption, whatever Trump may have done in the past, it in no way negatively affected our nation.
Why is it that the Democrats have no concern whatsoever about the well-known corruption of their leaders both in the Congress and their Party establishment? Why do the Republicans not challenge what they see on the other side? Because they are all involved in this long-established tradition of corruption, and if Trump causes light to be shone on one, all the others may be exposed.
For example, a foreign power might pay a DC lobbyist to get to, oh, let’s say, a Senator or Representative, and to offer some reward for influencing a vote passing a budget element that funds perhaps a military project wherein the foreign power would have some interest. If the budget is not approved, manufacturers, shippers, State taxes, other middle men, foreign concerns, law firms, etc will all be affected. Thus Congress may approve budgets for projects which the nation doesn’t actually need just to keep the grease flowing among all the aforementioned. The grease being an amount skimmed off the budgeted amount by each player. The justification might be “Bringing jobs to my State,” or “National security.” This is what leads to $750 hammers.
Now what about the infamous Mueller report. $40 million? Do we know where that money went? Does it cost $40M to interview a bunch of people? To rent a special room and equipment for interrogations? For parking spaces? For secretarial help? To print the reports? What were the Democrat investigators remunerated, who in the end didn’t even answer the questions of the Democrats and their media partners who were hanging their credibility on the report.
What about the higher-ups in the FBI? The DOJ? The CIA? DHS the military/industrial complex and all the others? Their hatred for the President is actually fear. Fear that Trump will overturn their money changing tables.
Do you ever find yourself wondering what America’s Founding Fathers would think of their America in 2019?
I find myself wondering if, frankly, The Constitution over which they tortured themselves has much relevancy today. And if it doesn’t, why do we spend so much energy defending it, or shredding it? Maybe it’s no longer of much use. It was written as a reaction to the subjugation of the New World Colonists to England. It was a new idea. The people, the citizens, would no longer be subjects of or owe fealty to a foreign power, or a lord or king or to a tyrannical government of its own. And for a couple of centuries it was a guide for a nation which grew to become the most powerful nation in Mankind’s long history. It worked remarkably well because its government was, at least in theory, of the people, by the people and for the people. But “the people” have become the problem.
They say all good things come to an end. In all generalities lies some truth.
Before America’s Civil War, French diplomat, political scientist and historian, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can
only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves
largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority
always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the
public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over
loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age
of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
More recently, Maggie Thatcher put it a bit more succinctly: The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.
And so, here we are, a bit more than that 200 years into The Great Experiment. America has expended an ocean of its most precious blood, sweat and tears, building this nation. But among many there is great dissatisfaction with the results. The irony is that today’s dissatisfaction is to be found primarily among those who have benefited most from the least amount of effort! The young simply want what they want, and want it now. They no longer seem to believe they can stand on their own two feet, work hard, and get what they want on their own. One senses they have no desire to embrace America’s traditional moral sentiment: get ahead by working hard and being good.
Perhaps it’s not their fault. It’s how our culture has evolved. Who wants to work hard when you can “get by” on your wits?
Americans can’t get enough of puppies, kittens and kiddies. We coddle them. Spoil them rotten. Combine that with the craftiness of spoiled brats in getting what they want, and tradition and responsibility fly right out the window.
So we now have a raft of young politicians tossing caution and even the slightest hint of fiscal practicality to the wind, openly promising free college, free health care, free abortions and whatever else they can think of to generate attention and votes. A kind of new age melange of socialism, capitalism, progressivism, globalism and democracy.
Perhaps we should think of it as Neo-Marxism or cultural Marxism where the Left attempts to impose not so much class division by wealth – poor versus rich – but now by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, faith and any other way they can invent to divide us. But the division is not simply to put us in neat little boxes, it’s intended to turn one box against another.
Our Constitution was not created to handle this kind of problem. It was assumed at the start that America would never be over-populated. That we would always need more people. It would never have occurred to the Founders that their invention would ever be populated by close to 350,000,000 people, many of whom are not citizens but who receive many of the same benefits, and in many cases more, than its citizens. I suspect they would be horrified to see thousands of homeless people living in squalor, many of them veterans. They would be horrified by the drug-infested tent cities. Their Constitution was not created to deal with this. This was a thing of Roman demise.
This generation’s anxiety-driven need to be inclusive has overwhelmed their common sense, assuming they had some in the first place. They demand inclusiveness for every division and subdivision of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and deviancy except...except...for traditional white Americans. Those whose progenitors created the freedoms we take for granted, those who fought to maintain these very freedoms today’s generations enjoy, and now abuse.
What would the Founders think about free college where the young are sent to be indoctrinated in anti-traditional American sentiment? And beyond college? After indoctrination, why would a graduate feel any debt to the country which he grew up in, and now despises? Will he develop a desire to serve his country in some positive way? Embark on a useful career? Start a good family? Buy a house and become a useful member of a community?
More likely many will gravitate to becoming political activists. Or anti-facist fascists. Or members of the army of so-called journalists — which is pretty much the same as political activism — very few of whom seem to be contributing anything positive beyond partisan politics. Does America really need another journalist? Purveyors of trivia and sowers of dissent? Does America need one more lawyer? Working like mice to chew loopholes in The Constitution. Or doll-faced tv talking heads carping with that perpetually adolescent voice they all seem to have adopted?
Almost predictably, America’s wonderful Constitution has become the very instrument of its demise. The freedoms which the Constitution guarantees have enabled
our greatest institutions to be infiltrated by the very enemy of that
Constitution. Leftists and their obsession with Marxism
have virtually taken over America’s legal system, institutions of learning, medical, healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, entertainment, journalism, publishing, and daily chip away at our manufacturing, technological, agricultural, defense, transportation and even sports industries.
Virtually every potential failure of The Great Experiment can be traced to the simple fact that there are now far too many who have no underpinning of or love for traditional American values. It is as alien to aliens as aliens are to America’s laws.
Our politicians have failed the nation. Law, applied unequally as it is now, has failed the nation. Today’s culture, without morals, has failed to lift our spirits. The Great Experiment is not exactly turning out great except for a small number of the mega-wealthy. A handful of the mega-wealthy wielding their power over the rest of our 350,000,000 citizens isn’t what the Founders hoped for in this Great Experiment, is it?
By opening our borders and treasury to millions upon millions of immigrants from countries whose cultures are incompatible with traditional America, we now have a nation so divided, with a plethora of industries devoted to further the divide, that we have passed the point of any hope for assimilation. We hear a lot of blather about “bringing us all together.” Claptrap. It’s clear the more we talk, the wider grows the gap.
Tocqueville warned that modern democracy may be adept at inventing
new forms of tyranny by pushing the noble goal of equality to a radical degree. Is this not exactly what we are experiencing now? Tearing down statues. Renaming places. Labeling anyone who disagrees with the new tyrants as racist, homophobic, misogynist, xenophobic, Islamophobic and a plethora of other Marxist-inspired epithets.
If despotism
were to take root in a modern democracy, opined Tocqueville, it could be a much more pernicious version than the oppression which existed under Roman emperors or
tyrants of the past, who could only exert oppressive influence on a
relatively small cluster of people at a time. In contrast, despotism under democracy could see "a multitude
of men", uniformly alike, equal, "constantly circling for petty
pleasures", uncaring about their less fortunate fellow citizens, with the few benefiting under the will of a
powerful state which would exert an immense protective power. In this, Tocqueville anticipated Hitler, Mau, Stalin et al.
Must America’s traditionalists simply accept the idea that we’ve had our 200 years, and allow our nation to continue it’s descent into whatever chaos follows the failure of a democracy? I do not believe Americans are ready for that. What to do, what to do?
No one knows a simple, quick or painless ways to change the course, or revitalize an experiment of this size and complexity. But some experiments are simply failures — not worthy of continuing. Our three branches of government are constantly at war... not just with each other but within each. After a couple of hundred years, perhaps it’s time to invent a new and better form of governing. Before the dictators leave us no options.
Opening Scene
It’s the next Star Trek assignment issued to Captain Kirk by The Federation: correct situation on a Federation Planet whose population density is the proximate cause of its demise.
Plot twist: This time it’s not the planet Gideon. Kirk is shocked when he learns it’s his own home planet – Earth!
Pockets of Hate
It’s not an issue of “how many people can Earth support?” Whatever the number may be, the existential threat stems from local density; too many humans jammed together in megalopolises.
Worse, these urban areas have become peppered with unassimilated peoples from many different cultures and nationalities which do not easily mix. Many are non-citizens of the nations to which they have migrated. Many literally hate the native culture and citizens into which they are now embedded. They constitute growing pockets of hate which national leaders are loathe to deal with, or even to publicly criticize because of political correctness (a fact not lost on ghettoists, who are clever enough to use politicians’ squeamishness to great advantage). And so, the density is allowed to grow like a cancer which threatens the very existence of any nation in which it grows.
Clashing Cultures
On the other hand, the world’s large nations contain vast regions of geography which are very sparsely populated or virtually unoccupied. As Commander Spock quickly analyzes, it is not total world population which causes the problem, but density – human friction, the clashing of cultures. He tells Kirk that like rats in a cage, when local population density reaches critical mass, like a nuclear chain reaction, the rats begin to turn on each other. They begin to go... well... squirrely. In case you’ve missed it; it was in yesterday’s news. It’s in today’s news. It’s in every day’s news.
Density. Critical mass.
What a Mess
The crew of the Enterprise can see how the humanity mass has polluted air, ground and sea. Mountains of refuse, the detritus of life, has piled up like the magma spewed from giant volcanoes. Human density produces huge profits for corporations less and less connected to the people they produce for. The need to survive drives those less fortunate to more and extreme measures.
Crime
Doctor McCoy shows Kirk a chart where 10% of Earth’s population turns to criminal activity in order to survive, or simply because the friction of human activity produces subcultures of criminals. Spock shows how, in Earth’s ancient history, world population might have been 2,000,000, and that would mean 200,000 rats would be causing trouble in the then-known geography. Bad enough. But, spread across the known world of the time, it was dealt with. Harshly to be sure.
Jump ahead to now. Current world population is approaching thirty-five thousand times as many as in ancient times... the total number of humans currently living was estimated to have reached 7,620,000,000 as of May 2018. Over seven billion humans! – at that 10%, it ups the number of deviants to 700,000,000.
“700 million criminals!” Kirk shows his shock, “Attracted to densely populated urban areas?”
Spock points out that, “Whereas the ‘known world’ was expanding in ancient times, Earth’s ‘known world’ is now all there is for Earthlings unable to escape the planet.”
So, despite notoriously under-estimated crime statistics, the crime problem is actually far greater than in the past. And it can only get worse as population density doesn’t just continue to grow but actually accelerates.
Add to all this the growing number of misfits, and we might have as many as 3,000,000,000 problem people on the planet.
“Think of it,” Uhura whispers, “A planet in this galaxy with a population of seven billion...”
“Yeh,” says Chekov, “Three billion of whom can’t be trusted or who can’t take care of themselves. It’s like Leningrad.”
Final Scene
Seeing the population of his home planet so deteriorated, Captain Kirk, not unfamiliar with The Old Testament, realizes the solution involves draconian measures. Such a large population cannot be moved. Population reduction along the lines of The Great Flood is The Federation’s solution. But Kirk, who is often accused of “playing God,” refuses to do what has to be done. He turns to Spock and mumbles sadly, “Let’s get the hell out of here.
“Chekov, plot a course for the Aldeberan System... Sulu, go to warp ten as soon as the course is laid in.”
“But Captain... the Federation Directive...”
“To hell with it. Let nature take care of it, not us...”
“Nature?” ask Uhura.
“A pandemic,” answers Doctor McCoy.
The bridge crew stares at the Captain for a second or two before
he slowly nods and, putting his hand on the young navigator’s shoulder, gives the command, “Engage.”
Cue Star Trek closing theme; fade to black.
