Posted on 04/20/2018 4:18:55 PM PDT by davikkm
“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.” – Cormac McCarthy
It doesn’t take a biologist to see that mother nature has cruel and violent tendencies. Consider some of the fiercest competitors in the animal kingdom, such as apes, crocodiles, bears, snakes, hippos and many others. These creatures’ natural instincts are to resort to violence when it comes to the pursuit of power, territory and resources. Humans are playing the same game but on a much higher level.
In the early days of human evolution, humans were not far ahead of the animals I mentioned. Total warfare, as we know it today, would still take thousands of years to be waged. Humans still had very crude weapons, such as sharpened sticks and rocks. The violence back then could have involved conflicts between humans, but most of it was probably directed towards hunting and defending against large animals.
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So what does he want us to do, when confronted with totalitarian or warlike ideology or theology, which seeks to destroy us?
I can’t count the number of times I have heard a liberal spout some version of, wouldn’t it be wonderful if something wiped out half (or more) of the human race. (I’m certain they never see themselves as being in the half that gets wiped out.) But as technology explodes, I expect we, The People, are in greater danger from the liberals who have money and tech enough to wage their own little genocidal war of annihilation against the basket of deplorables in flyover country, than we are from Russian oligarchs or Chinese communists.
From the perspective of many of the survivors, however, the impact after the plague was more happy, for their labor was in higher demand. Hilton has argued that those English peasants who survived found their situation to be much improved. For English peasants, the 15th century was a golden age of prosperity and new opportunities. The land was plentiful, wages high, and serfdom had all but disappeared. A century later, as population growth resumed, the peasants again faced deprivation and famine.[1][2][3]
Just tell them that because of the ban on DDT, over a million brown people a year (mostly children) die of Malaria; that should cheer them up some. “Just think of how much more rice they would need if those kids had lived!”
Of course “one of those kids” might have been the one to lead some of those countries onto a better path, or a breakthrough with crops, water, etc. - but they don’t see things that way.
“From the perspective of many of the survivors, however, the impact after the plague was more happy, for their labor was in higher demand. Hilton has argued that those English peasants who survived found their situation to be much improved. For English peasants, the 15th century was a golden age of prosperity and new opportunities. The land was plentiful, wages high, and serfdom had all but disappeared. A century later, as population growth resumed, the peasants again faced deprivation and famine.[1][2][3] “
I would argue that in an agrarian society you could remove half the population and the rest would survive. If you removed half of our present population, the disruption of power generation, services, farming, product and energy delivery would all multiply to kill even more people. The survivors of a new 50% killer plague would likely fall all the way back to barbarism. How many people could even identify edible plants or prepare animals for eating? Take away our cell phones and our credit cards and we have the survival potential of snowflakes in Hell.
Yes, we’re in such a symbiotic relationship with technology, there’s no telling how far back we’d slide if massive EMPs were deployed successfully, and still farther back with the resulting depopulation. Seems like the veneer of civilization is perilously thin, doesn’t it?
After the wipe-out of advanced civilization, those cat fish catching red necks would be continuing on as if nothing had happened. At least that is a methology that we would all like to believe in.
“After the wipe-out of advanced civilization, those cat fish catching red necks would be continuing on as if nothing had happened. At least that is a mythology that we would all like to believe in.”
Distance means nothing today. I can hop in my car and be fishing in thirty minutes. But with no gas, no electricity and no car those fish might as well be on the moon. We’d all have to relocate close to water, which is what all previous civilizations did. The sudden reduced living circumstances will bring about more disease from insects and poor sanitation.
half the population has already fallen back into barbarism
“...It doesn’t take a biologist to see that mother nature has cruel and violent tendencies....” [original post]
The nation needs desperately to get over both its universalism and its moral absolutism.
The notion that the victor in a conflict suffers moral “injury” by killing enemies, therefore we should refrain from killing them, can do nothing except hasten our decline and defeat - the moreso when we are confronted with today’s adversaries, who seek our destruction and disdain kindness as weakness.
The mere call for mercy in dealing with a foe can be objectively defined as treason.
Nature is not “cruel”; it’s anthropomorphic hubris to think that the world apart from humankind can or should be governed by a collection of moralistic rules. That world is beyond good and evil, as we are pleased to understand them. Believing we can master it and turn it to our own purposes is a form of arrogance approaching insanity.
First, win the war. Then fuss about morality.
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