malthus you beautiful bastard

MALTHUS YOU BEAUTIFUL BASTARD

We all know Reverend Malthus and his essay on famine and overpopulation.  What I find remarkable is that no one is celebrating his work as unfolding before our eyes ( and at this point this is NOT hyperbole ).  I’m also amazed that on average your higher educated naked apes are so friggin lacking in the slightest common sense that something as simple as the observation that population increases faster than agriculture can sustain it is considered so groundbreaking that over two hundred years later we are all still talking about it and even more embarrassing we are still debating it.  The debate on overpopulation isn’t some rocket surgery where the facts are hard to ascertain like Gore Warming.  A casual look at history will show that time and again without fail all civilizations overshoot and crash.  Malthus, perhaps on a slow day after he had already debated how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, came up with this polished turd and suddenly everyone was all spurting and sputtering and soiling themselves and the hoo-ha continues to this day ( obviously this is an oversimplification.  Malthus was primarily involved in economics, and etc. ).  As I said, kind of embarrassing for all the rest of us.  To this day, on a slow news day, central banking whores like Forbes magazine ( or even worse, The Economist ) ride Malthus like a rabid cheap pony on its way to the glue factory, trying to sell the idea that only modern man is slick and special enough to solve all the problems the ancient club draggers had no clue about and so we can safely ignore any doomers or gloomers.

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Folks like Catton update the message, essentially unchanged but gayed up with a college degree, but manage to keep the essence simple and easily understood and conveyable, and they too are ignored.  I speak of the reindeer and lichen supply on an island and the microbes in the petri dish with the yeast he used as analogies ( the book “Overshoot”- really about the only background cause and effect book a survivalist needs to understand the future ), and while he was quite successful preaching to the choir, I wonder how few folks were actually converted to worry about the future.  All this we’ve covered before, the propensity to live in denial, the ready submission to whatever paradigm pays/feeds you currently, etc.  It does very little good to preach to the heathens, because no matter how forceful your argument or logical your premise, no one is going to listen.  It is mental masturbation, only making yourself feel good.  And preaching to the choir is little better, except for the general tendency to keep the troops rallied and motivated.  At least some good comes from those efforts.  Today, I’d like to demonstrate how Malthus’ warning is now unfolding.  No longer is it theory for a bleak future we all glory in, a science fiction tale we amuse ourselves with because we are still surrounded by enough prosperity to ignore the central message.  Malthus’ Nightscape is nigh, yo.

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We don’t live in a world of abundance.  Famine is already loose upon the land and it’s kissing cousin pestilence is riding its ass harder than a lifer prisoner with a new virgin cellmate and a bucket of Vaseline.  Even in the First World countries like the US.  Our famine is, once again ( the South during the War Of Northern Colonization and afterwards, then again the South and a few other areas during the Roosevelt Bankers Whore Engineered Great Depression ) , disguised as malnutrition.  Despite generations of schoolmarm lies disguised as education, malnourishment of our general population has not magically disappeared.  It has gotten far, far worse, in line with degraded soil fertility and overpopulation.  You think famine is an either/or proposition?  That one day we are feasting at overloaded groaning tables with a vomitorium next door and the next suddenly the food supply is gone and we swoon painfully from a weakened position into the street, flies swarming our eyeballs?  Famine is preceded by small drops in the food supply ( speaking in broad, public-wide, generalities ) in a functioning but declining civilization ( obviously you have sudden complete disruptions like in war, cities besieged, etc. ).  Which cause malnutrition in the long term.  You aren’t dead from lack of food but severely weakened from not enough.  Which opens you up for disease.  Which is what kills most people, NOT famine per se.   It is important to understand this distinction, because this is the position we are now currently in.  None of us are starving, but we are so weakened by the condition of the food we eat that diseases are becoming very widespread and much more dangerous.

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It is entertaining to speculate that diseases spreading across the globe are manmade, manufactured by an evil ruling elite to kill off the useless breathers/breeders so as to leave far more supplies from a dwindling supply for themselves.  But this falls into the trap I label as “Primetime TV 8:50 Plot Windup”.  As we all know, those junkies that use television as their mind candy drug of choice, the last five minutes of TV shows are four minutes of commercials followed by one minute of a last joke and the credits.  So, at ten till you have five minutes to wind up the plot, answering all the mysterious questions piled on since the show started.  Usually it is so improbable that shown alone it would have you vomiting your show time soda up through your nose, but since we have been conditioned to view this as mindless entertainment we don’t question this standard practice.  With our public/media propaganda, we are giving the 8:50 Lie which by itself is silly but which sooths us and dampens our fears.  Blaming naturally occurring events on men has several improbable plot lines.  First, most people are stupid.  Leaders are just as stupid ( see Obammy exhibit A ), but more dishonest and more ruthless/vicious.  Secondly, man has very limited powers compared to nature, even with all that wonderful carbon fuel power at his disposal ( a single volcano can belch more pollutants into the atmosphere than a year’s manufacturing globally, and make Hiroshima look like a firecracker ).

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Third, more importantly to your survival, if you believe man made the problem, you infer there will be a manmade solution ( even under the “deliberate die-off” scenario, you can be the most inconsequential person on the planet and still hold out hope for some kind of rescue, given our self-delusional sense of self-importance ).  This belief is very dangerous, as it will cause you to relax your guard and carry on with Business as Usual for too long.  It actually behooves those in power to spread the belief that the elite manufactured a crisis, as a pacification technique.  They are too friggin stupid to know how to do the hard work of a die-off, but they are smart enough to make you think they are responsible.  I contend- and yes, I could be just as full of crap as the next uber-idiot with a keyboard- that the recent easier spread of diseases is most likely caused by something as simple as a tripping point being reached in which enough of the population is in a weakened physical condition for pathogens to spread more successfully than in the last few generations.  We’ve had widespread carbon fuel based transportation for over a hundred years now, yet for the last sixty or seventy of those years disease has been, broadly speaking, losing ground to modern medicine.  So how do you suddenly blame airplanes for Ebola?  Around five years ago we started seeing serious depletion of the grain supplies worldwide.  Due to weather change whether man made or not, as well as ethanol programs using food for fuel.  Due to overpopulation, as well as Peak Oil impacting the centralization of food production in its many aspects.  A lot of the Third World is in serious calorie deficiency because of this, making widespread malnutrition more than a hence regional-only problem.  Areas which before were adequately fed are now ripe for the Four Horsemen to graze upon a newly denuded landscape ( war was already unleashed and now famine and soon to be pestilence ).  And the First World has serious issues with eating far too many empty calories.  It has been pointed out that the US suffers from Fat People Problems, hypertension and cancers and heart attacks and etc.  I could argue that older age causes more of those, but for now I’ll just make the point that aside from Affluence Disease issues, we suffer from a diet made largely of poor quality foods.  And while this is nothing new, the recent draught added to corn misuse added to a tripping point of overpopulation in this country makes for a newer, more critical problem.

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We were eating more because we could, true, but also because our bodies craved nutrients and wasn’t getting any and hence craved more food.  We don’t crave calories per se making us over eat but crave the correct chemistry we aren’t getting.  The body craves more food in its quest to get the proper items it needs for functioning.  Now, start taking away some of that extra food because drought and lack of corn and increased herd disease tripled meat and fat prices and drought and misallocation of resources towards fuel crops doubled all other consumable prices and what you are now seeing in affluent countries is a decrease in calories ( disguised by Michele Obama and NYC’s Bloomberg as Big Brother caring and compassion and Health Conscience but really the opening salvos of soon to be food rationing ).  Which would be fine if that led to healthier eating.  But all it really means for most people is a reduction in nutrients.  Since the food is already denuded, reducing its volume is only taking away what little trace amounts of nutrients so desperately needed were in that reduced amount.  Fake Food has been around going on eighty or so years, all for corporate profit and individual laziness.  Fake Food is nothing new and you can easily avoid most of it easily and cheaply.  But now we have begun engineering substitute food disguised as “unaltered food” ( broth injected raw chicken, pink slime hamburger ), and for some time now all produce you eat is grown in dead soil and all meat you eat is injected with unspeakable things while still on the hoof.

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Take more starving people and expose them to more and more disease, more easily spread due to weather changes, then expose those people once infected to affluent malnourished people living in an area mixing drought with unchecked immigration and population growth, and while you don’t have separate pestilence or separate famine, you do have an uneasy mix and match of the two in its milder forms.  Add in low level widespread warfare ( on a barely related but interesting note, in the news Obammy the House Negro is talking about activating the inactive reserve, presumably to send them over to Africa to get far more warm traveling bodies infected.  For those never in the military, the inactive reserve are those which got out of active service, then had the additional time required to be in reserve.  i.e. you serve four years in active then are subject to another three years while a civilian to further call-up at the governments discretion.  It was my understanding while signing on the line in my time that this was only to be in cases of dire emergency such as Soviet invasion.  Alas, any common sense idea can be subverted by lawyers and I believe this technicality was how Bush used Stop Loss to keep troops active when manpower got short in Iraq.  Now I guess it just means the Prez can send you to your death even while not in war ).  Presto, Malthus Lite.  Ain’t the now the future used to be grand?

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