Posted on 08/17/2017 2:41:13 PM PDT by ETL
[by Jason Kessler]
12/6/2015
Here's a different kind of question I've often had about large scale tragedies like natural disasters, diseases & gun violence:
We get so caught up in the emotion of the violence that we don't consider the long-term, historical consequences. To put it bluntly: the planet is overpopulated already. Maybe we shouldn't try to cure every disease, we shouldn't confiscate all the harmful drugs, etc.
Perhaps we'd be happier if we made peace with the fact that rabid animals are going to dwindle the herd from time to time (as they have in much greater volume throughout history) & that's not really a bad thing in the long run.
Should we try to stop as many large scale attacks as possible? Of course... but I don't think the zeitgeist should have an aneurysm every time one occurs either.
I think we be served to draw some historical perspective on how difficult the human condition has always been & how that is something of a blessing in disguise.
Take for instance how valuable the conquerors throughout history, as bloody & awful as they were during their reigns, have been to population control.
We think the planet is overpopulated now: the environment sick, the resources dwindling; where in the world [would] we be without Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Julius Caesar or for that matter the bubonic plague, cancer & AIDS?
Here's an article on the beneficial impact Genghis Khan's conquests had on the environment & sustainability, for example.
There are already 7.125 BILLION people on Planet Earth.
Try to extrapolate out how many people would be here now if EVERYONE had survived & had kids, which seems to be the ultimate aim of modern society... a right if you will... to defy the boundaries of nature.
It'd be one hell of a dystopian nightmare that's for sure.
I just an hour or so ago dug up his blog writings on jasonkessler.net from the internet archive site WayBackMachine (web.archive.org), and now am beginning to wonder if his (warped) intentions with that predictably volatile event was to deliberately trigger a war that would ultimately reduce the human population.
Here is the main link to his entries from Dec 10, 2015 through July 21, 2017:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160501000000*/http://www.jasonkessler.net/
thanks for digging
The guy obviously thinks he’s twice as intelligent as he really is.....
Go work. Certainly the writing of a deranged person.
Malthusian jackass.................
https://web.archive.org/web/20170402131210im_/http://www.jasonkessler.net/uploads/6/6/5/1/66515277/6211279.jpg?618
Isn’t this the Obama/Hillary guy who suddenly decided to start a skinhead war in Charlotte as a right winger??
Also pro-Occupy Wall Street
Smoke some more PCP Jason, maybe partying will help /s
Probably a Stanford grad.
Thanks for finding / posting.
Guy is obviously a lefty lunatic, not an ‘alt’ right; Be quite at home with leftist icon Margaret Sanger.
Perhaps he has no understanding of what happens to people that play both sides.
I invite you all to see what you can dig up on the archives.
Lot of stuff there.
JasonKessler.net
2015:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150601000000*/http://www.jasonkessler.net/
2016:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160501000000*/http://www.jasonkessler.net/
2017:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170915000000*/http://www.jasonkessler.net/
This guy reminds me of Philby and Burgess who were extreme leftists and then took a sharp right turn and wormed their way into establishment institutions.
We’re onto you.
Even Noam Chomsky is back pedaling.
All while spinning the narrative.
Burgess & Philly never turned right! They came from the right families, went to the right school, it was WWII & Stalin was on the Allied side (eventually! .. sort of!) and they were supposed to grow up and forget all that silly youthful commie stuff! They didn’t!
Not withstanding food distribution issues (many), the earth is not over populated. ALL of humanity today would fit in 1/5th of the Grand Canyon.
Philby and Burgess were always communists but they publicly repositioned themselves to move into establishment institutions.
Which may be what this Kessler has done. But in his case to move into the alt-right.
The start of WW2 was the era of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. So anyone who took the pro Moscow pacifist line was blackballed from the UK war effort.
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