RE: Extinction Threat: Jeremy Grantham Letter on Chemical Castration
Any investigation into resource abundance and population reveals that we are not short resources, but that polities are extremely bad at rational development and distribution. My research has led me to grasp that it is the centralization and concentration of wealth that is the primary cause of environmental harm.
It is the rapine competition between institutions and the pathological individuals that seize power over them that drives the least expensive development mechanisms that causes environmental degradation, by enabling the least tiny profit advantage to capture resources. Utter disregard for society is inculcated by crony capitalism, and this is the fruit of inhuman and inhumane 'legal persons' being effected by psychopathic individuals focused solely on their own benefit.
Due to the least socialized individuals undertaking means of gaining power, that normal people refuse to undertake because of their human care and concern for their fellows, global resources are captured by institutions run by psychopaths. Despite institutions defining themselves (governments are institutions) as 'legal persons' they are not persons at all. They do not have human motivations and social connections like actual people do. They are innately inhuman and inhumane, and psychopaths deprived of normal social functionality therefore have strong affinity to institutions, capturing the parasitic power institutions are availed over individuals.
This is the actual problem, not human population, IMHO.
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When we look at resource distribution, it does seem to indicate that population reduction would be for the benefit of the few who wouldn't want to change their lifestyle.
Eliminate the competition and you get to enjoy all the luxuries you want without too much harm to your environment.
What kept me from accepting this paradigm for decades was that while consumption is focused on the top 1%, production, from which that 1% parasitize all that wealth to consume with, is undertaken by the rest. That made them dependent on our production for their consumption, and made them loathe to kill us all.
Automation potentially eliminates our utility, and that dramatically changes my calculus.
We really don't compete with them for quality of life items. Personally, I eschew them to the extent possible. I intend to live hard and die free, as that's what I respect. Most of us didn't have a choice anyway. We're too honest to steal, and too nice to rob our robber barons. It's just how we're made.
I have hoped to inspire folks to undertake development and distribution of decentralized means of production to decrease their parasitization and increase their actual wealth and power relative to institutions, but I'm a tear in rain. A few folks listened to me and that got me banned off other platforms. C'est la guerre =p. I call that a win.
The problem the banksters have is they can't keep emasculating the professional military and count on them to wipe civilians out, and they can't replace the professional military themselves, because they're incompetent. They presently can't resort to automation entirely for their quality of life either, so we still have time to develop and distribute nominal means of production to render them less powerful.
If the professional military ever grasp they're being chemically castrated with the rest of us, God help the banksters. Sometime in the next two decades, they will know, and that will make them very, very mad.
I won't live long enough to see it happen, but I remain confident humanity will shake off it's fleas and deliver the stars to our posterity.
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