Malthusians V Muggles.

06 April

Malthusians V Muggles.

 

Thomas Robert Malthus was a piece of work and it occurs to me that no-one in History is so adequately positioned as to represent the divide between those in the know and the ignorant, the one’s socially positioned and the herd.

His controversial theories have been discussed by such powerful entities as Darwin, Wallace, Marx and Engels. He is well known in educated families and yet strangely enough, virtually invisible to the Muggles. I say ‘strangely enough’ because he could be the biggest threat to their existence. If a wealthy organization valued his contributions to academia, and held his theories in high regard, then they would be in a position to implement his final solutions to the population problem; Eugenic management.

If you, or your family, don’t quite measure up to A grade beef standards, then in theory, you could be weeded out of the herd. If your genes aren’t valued then maybe you should be interested in his argument:

"Malthus argued that population was held within resource limits by two types of checks: positive ones, which raised the death rate, andpreventative ones, which lowered the birth rate. The positive checks included hunger, disease and war; the preventative checks, abortion, birth control, prostitution, postponement of marriage, and celibacy."

Don’t let me worry you though because I’m sure the rich and powerful people, in this world of ours, have your best interests at heart.

* By the way here is a link to the school he haunts Haileybury

Sex, lies & Internet filters

28 March

Sex, lies & Internet filters

While my first point grabbed your attention and my second is a compulsory part of modern life, it’s the third obscenity that is the controversial one; at this particular point in time.

Sex has always been around, we wouldn’t exist without it.

Lies were found to be useful in the Garden of Eden.

Internet filters, on the other hand, have yet to be proven a good or bad thing and more to the point, a connection to the ability to know the difference between good and evil. Now while no decent person would object to spam being ejected from our daily electronic discourse, those who would censor free speech are a scourge who camouflage themselves as purveyors of morality. I don’t know about you, but I think the Chinese governments’ track record of riding rough shot over their characterized google-ing ability and their you tubing, voyeuristic, human right is a travesty of international proportions.

Nothing said here breaches the stable datum of current thinking but if I venture to say, or comment upon Australia’s preoccupation with becoming the world’s most filtered consumers of digitalized porridge, then no doubt I would raise the hackles of many a social guardian. Never the less, thoughtful, law abiding and erect citizens of our great nation take heed; because if you go down to the woods today be sure of a big surprise, tomorrow a powerful elite of bureaucratic wolves will be in charge of you children’s future and there will be no governing them.

DON’T confuse a minority of sexual degenerates with the somewhat maligned, outspoken dissidents who, rightly or wrongly, criticize the dem-mock-rat-ically elected ruling class because in the end they maybe putting their freedoms on the line for your rights.

CRIME & PUNISHMENT (the short version)

02 March

CRIME & PUNISHMENT (the short version)

Spare the rod, spoil the child; hang the bastards; nuke ‘em all. These terms have had their day to all but the uneducated, mean-spirited, right-wing ass-holes. They don’t represent anything but an intolerant, outdated, failure of policy but still we are surrounded by well meaning people who haven't managed to associated their way of thinking and speaking to the verifiable error of pursuing the hard line. So here I go again with a rant aimed at begging some to change their view, even if it is totally foreign to their regular habit.

Catholics, Jews and Muslims, God bless their souls, are, by their own admition, victims of their chosen religion in the ‘guilt’ department. If all was fair and equitable in the church, as well as more secular concerns, changes of policy would have kept pace with common knowledge. So all have become victims of the slow pace of change, in the sense that those who feel it is their godly duty to condemn sinners to the fiery pits suffer as well as those they judge. Red necked, pro- 911- retribution advocates sit squarely with terrorists and the financial neo-cons as world opinion swings decisively away from their bad judgements, extreme reactions and poor results.

Nothing I have said here comes as a revelatory cognition, we all know it. Why I have chosen to pontificate on this subject comes from a personal realization that if you treat people badly they react badly. If you offer people respect and understanding, you see the best come from the worst, no matter what the percentage; don’t take my word for it, try it for yourself. If you want to see your children grow and mature as responsible adults, invest in giving them the space to act like responsible adults. If you want to see criminals or terrorists act in away that you would desire , try treating them in a similar way and you might just be surprised at the results.

I have seen the nicest, most well intentioned, honestly godly people turn into the nastiest, mean spirited, old devils that we all are glad to see the back of, for the lack of understanding this issue. Don’t propagate the trend.

The Good Lie

24 February

The Good Lie

In the cult classic  movie ‘The Matrix’, a tech savvy freedom fighter deserts his post on the good ship Nebuchadnezzar and sells out to an alien power broker for the pleasure of believing a lie. He sits in a virtual restaurant and comments on how good virtual steak tastes, whilst pondering his ‘Judas Purse’ which consists of the hypnotic delusion of freedom, wealth and power. Those who followed the trilogy, know this scene well but for those who don’t I will explain the significance.

In a world where the bulk of humanity is considered a resource to be tapped, agents of the beneficiaries move through the farce with an unstoppable determination to maintain the totality of mass delusion. Anyone who breaks the mould by waking up to the reality of their plight are hunted down, imprisoned, tortured, if not exterminated. Now the reason for the unprecedented success of this fictitious epic is that, for the devoted, it parodies real life. We the ‘milked’ are pleasantly oblivious to the business going on around us, if we wake up and fight the agents, life can become very unpleasant so we choose to chew the virtual steak and chatter to one another on how good it tastes. Every time we laugh at Australia’s Funniest Home Videos we masticate on digital slock, when we waste an hour or two visiting the house of Big Brother we are virtually vegging. You know what I’m saying, whatever your brand of virtual cuisine, we choose that over the mind numbing boredom of the milking shed or the dangers of fighting agents.

If there is a ‘Zion’ where this scenario isn’t true; if freedom, peace and equality aren't delusional concepts and even if you think all this is a load of crap, how do we distinguish that from which we have now?

When WW2 was in full swing and Hitler ruled Europe, no-one would have had trouble understanding my parable because his agents were very visible and they were sucking the life out of everyone. Propergander was the main tool used to ‘hypnotise the sheep"’ and they used the state of the art media techniques to broadcast the mind numbing messages. Hoards of people bought the ‘virtual steak’  and either died or lived to regret it. Every radio station , newspaper, movie maker and bookseller was working for the beneficiaries and the people lapped it up. In England and America this did not go unnoticed and pretty soon they were doing the same thing to meet their needs.

Very good lies were being broadcast, published and filmed, all over the world, we all know that. I just want to know; when did it stop.

The Mob Rules!

09 February

The Mob Rules!

I don’t think anybody would disagree; Mobsters ruin communities, when they do what they do, in any society. To get a picture in your mind, of what I am on about, just think Chicago during the prohibition years. Al Capone and Frank Nitti rode rough shot over a whole metropolis, while they ran Gambling, Prostitution and sold booze and drugs on every street corner. Now stop for a moment and ask yourself who carries out that tradition in our society today?

Mobster require one main ingredient to formalize their rule, a mob; so regardless of who’s the boss, it’s the mob that empowers. The average person empowers the big bosses of this country and every time they put money in a slot machine, back a horse, buy grog or suck on a bit of smoko weed, they are financing a system that is responsible for the bulk of family hardships, illness and death. Now I hear the cries: surely not. Our responsible leaders of industry and government should not be put in the same category, they don’ carry machine guns, they don’t mow down innocent people in the course of maintaining their monopolies, or do they?

Our society doesn’t tolerate irresponsible, profiteering, drug dealing, pimps because they prey on peoples weaknesses for their own greedy ambitions. Well call me a liar, if you want to, but when  the big company executives and governmental bodies budget for large profits in the fore mentioned areas, are they not doing exactly the same thing? You may well put forward an argument  in support of this kind of irresponsible behaviour, quoting the fiscal necessity and the befits of job retention, as overriding the moral imperative but then you are exactly the problem I am talking about.

For those who get it; you may well say ‘what can we do about it, we are just the victims’ or ‘that’s the way it always been and after all you can’t change city hall’. Well to that I say ‘BULLS*IT; don’t  curtail social reform for those reasons, fight for you children’s rights to live  in a better era’. There IS no rational reason that we have to put up with mobsters running our lives and making bad decisions that affect the very core of our existence. Demand substantial social reforms and don’t hand over your power to representatives that don’t have the highest moral agenda on this issue, because if you do, then you are the mob.

Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and Non-believers.

25 January

Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and Non-believers.

“For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.” Barak Obama, inaugural speech 2009.

With all that in mind;

Christians don’t have the right to monopolies on morals, civic duties, education policies, medical dilemmas or scientific directions. Muslims don’t have a right to dictate on alcohol prohibition, dress codes or women's issues. Jew’s can’t expect special treatment when it comes to discrimination laws and Hindu’s don’t get to set the menu. Nonbelievers have to get in line if they want the same respect others receive in regards to being entitled to your opinion.

My choice to be known as a non-theist, should not distinguish nor discredit me when commenting on any of the above subjects but represent  the thrust of my argument as a guide and a courtesy to others involved in any debate where it is relevant. Their particular beliefs should not influence my logical processes when assessing their input and all participants put in the same boat. Recently, I have noticed, Atheists have been making a pain of themselves when commenting on others rights to believe what they will, in a similar way that new bourn (again) Christians do until they have matured in the faith or till youthful exuberance exhausted.

Let us all settle down when it comes to telling people what they can or cannot believe and join together in BO’s vision of ushering in a new era of peace.

WWW

Sex, lies & internet filters

While my first point grabbed your attention and my second is a compulsory part of modern life, it’s the third obscenity that is the controversial one; at this particular point in time.

Sex has always been around, we wouldn’t exist without it.

Lies were found to be useful in the Garden of Eden.

Internet filters, on the other hand, have yet to be proven a good or bad thing and more to the point, a connection to the ability to know the difference between good and evil. Now while no decent person would object to spam being ejected from our daily electronic discourse, those who would censor free speech are a scourge who camouflage themselves as purveyors of morality. I don’t know about you, but I think the Chinese governments’ track record of riding rough shot over their characterized google-ing ability and their you tubing, voyeuristic, human right is a travesty of international proportions.

Nothing said here breaches the stable datum of current thinking but if I venture to say, or comment upon Australia’s preoccupation with becoming the world’s most filtered consumers of digitalized porridge, then no doubt I would raise the hackles of many a social guardian. Never the less, thoughtful, law abiding and erect citizens of our great nation take heed; because if you go down to the woods today be sure of a big surprise, tomorrow a powerful elite of bureaucratic wolves will be in charge of you children’s future and there will be no governing them.

DON’T confuse a minority of sexual degenerates with the somewhat maligned, outspoken dissidents who, rightly or wrongly, criticize the dem-mock-rat-ically elected ruling class because in the end they maybe putting their freedoms on the line for your rights.