Overpopulation v. Willful Stupidity

Mark Walker MWalker at gensym.com
Tue Jan 30 07:43:54 EST 2001


Like I said - too many western, white, sexually indiscriminant, elitist,
racist, proselytizing, SOBs is still a function of too many people.
 
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Mark Walker
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mbpi at juno.com [mailto:mbpi at juno.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 4:44 AM
> To: LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Re: Overpopulation v. Willful Stupidity
>
>
> I'm still not convinced that overpopulation is the problem:
> I think Mike
> Gochfeld said it all with "Western values" that have been imposed,
> (whether wanted or not), through the omnipresent media and unthinking,
> intrepid "adventurers" who feel obligated to press their so-called
> "sophisticated values" on indiginous populations who have managed to
> coexist sympatrically with the natural environment for eons
> of time until
> the "western white-bread mentality" was thrown into the
> mileau.   All it
> takes is one individual with manufactured "trinkets" at their
> dispersal
> to corrupt a complacent society.  (And no, the near demise of the
> American Bison was NOT a result of "overpopulation:"  it was
> the result
> of willful, white supremecy, i.e. ignorance, by a SMALL handful of
> individuals.)   By the way...the "carrier pigeon" is doing
> just fine (!)
>
> I'd say that the MAJORITY of the "overpopulation" are ineffectual at
> best.  There are a select FEW individuals who "run the show,"
> regardless
> of the number of people involved.  It doesn't matter if it is
> a "family
> of four" or an entire nation.  To reiterate what Ron Gatrelle posed
> through Biblical references:  If one were to take the "first
> family" as a
> case in point:  Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel (and "Pinch Me") COULDN'T
> even get along in their "underpopulated" existence....and the entire
> Earth was their oyster!  Fable or not, it still can serve as
> a metaphor.
>
>
> Blame overpopulation if you must...it's as easy a "rationalization" as
> anything else.  Like I said:  all it takes is ONE thoughtless, elitist
> individual to disrupt an entire ecosystem.  We live in a
> world of EXCESS,
> however poorly distributed.  While WE suffer the pangs of obesity and
> other metabolic disorders because of our nutritionally unsound,
> sedentary, "excessive" life style, we nevertheless try to inflict our
> cultivated, capitalistic moors on undiscerning others. Third World
> countries DON'T "need" McDonald's hamburgers or Coca-Cola, much less
> outboard-motors, anymore than WE do.  They need to "evolve"
> in their own
> time and place.  Witness Russia: they are KILLING  themselves
> as a nation
> from "too much, too soon," after years of living in a restrained
> Communist regime.
>
> Does anyone recall how the AIDS epidemic "started?"  As I
> recall, it was
> traced back to ONE "sexually indiscriminate" individual who had the
> finances to "globe trot"...
>
> We don't have to "worry" about overpopulation:  we just got rid of
> 13,000+ Indians by an unforseen natural disaster...and that's
> "what they
> get" for breeding like rabbits and refusing to embrace the Western
> "status quo" (!)  Hmmph!  Not knowing enough about Indian
> history, I can
> only speculate that THEIR problems started when the British moved
> in...like Africa and Australia...and yes, North America.  (And please,
> Neil, DON'T get your "knickers all in a twist...")  We "smug
> and smart"
> Americans" are just as responsible for the current state of
> world affairs
> as the British were in their hey-day... a small fraction of the
> "overpopulation" if you ask me...
>
> Blame it on "overpopulation," but don't assume the responsibility that
> OUR white-bread elitist heritage has anything to do with it.
>
> Get me off this soapbox, PLEASE...  (This is what happens
> when you turn
> 50 and are jaded and weary with the world...)
>
> Anyone seen any good Leps lately?!
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