It's what they don't say that counts

Just A Minute

A page of text (albeit with some really large margins) equals roughly a minute of screen time. The Hollywood types like theirs with lots of white showing…everything clear, crisp and concise.

Let’s see if we can accomplish that here with a few concepts.

You are a human, one of six point two billion humans that inhabit this planet.

It took a hundred years for the population to double from three billion to six billion…an event that happened right on schedule despite two world wars, countless natural disasters and massive amounts of genocide.

Every time the population doubles, it halves the time necessary to duplicate the feat so in fifty years there will be twelve billion human inhabitants of this planet…and twenty-five years after that there will be twenty-four billion and twelve years after that, forty eight billion.

While this kind of exponential growth seems ‘magical’ there is no magic involved…it’s what we are all born to do.

Each new life requires food, clothing and shelter.

The higher the ‘demand’ for these basic necessities, the higher the price, as evidenced by the recent insane increase in the ‘real estate’ market (which has more to do with debt than demand at the moment but that’s another issue.)

How will you live?

Each and every day there are more and more people competing for an ever-diminishing pool of jobs. Some of these jobs are lost to automation while others are moved to cheaper labor markets but the end result is the same…more workers with fewer ‘legitimate’ work opportunities.

Why is this? Logically, the increase in the number of consumers/workers should result in greater prosperity…but we aren’t dealing with a ‘logical’ situation here, are we?

A successful society is one where all of it’s members work and contribute thereby enabling them to enjoy the fruits of their labors.

The operative phrase here is ‘all of it’s members’.

In defiance of all logic, our current society is not about the success of humanity but the success of the individual. That success is directly proportional to the individual’s ability to exploit their fellow humans. The more people they can exploit, the more successful they are.

We are not alone and our fellow humans we not put here for us to take advantage of.

Given that society is a highly cooperative venture, who’s to say which piece of the whole is more valuable than any other is?

Yet it is done.

Now, the population continues to grow and the job market continues to shrink, placing an ever increasing number of people into the circumstances of not having an answer to the question of how will I live.

When this number reaches critical mass, there is a very real danger that society, as we know it, will collapse.

Billions will die in the ensuing free for all and the social clock will turn back not a hundred but a thousand years.

You need not look too far for the signs of decay that indicate collapse is eminent. Contrary to official reports our current situation is significantly more serious than a ‘temporary’ economic downturn and while the media is mute on the subject, the signs are there if you know what you’re looking at. (The stock market has nothing to do with reality and can safely be ignored.)

You are no more important than anyone else is and you should not allow anyone else to claim they are more important than you are. Humanity will fare far better when it recognizes that life is about cooperation and not clubbing each other to death just for the chance to sit in the driver’s seat.

Life’s not about you, it’s about us.

Thanks once again for letting me into your head.

George C. Anderson Jr
Copyright 6/29/03