One Response to youtube – amazing speech by war veteran

1. LaoTze says:

   January 1, 2010 at 12:53 pm

   I wish I had watched this video before making my previous comments.

   I completely sympathize with it. However, being Malthusian, I must disagree with it.

   The fact of the matter is that we must send our young and foolish to die. We must kill more of their young and foolish. It is a matter of survival.

   As much as the present enlightened era denies it. We are all racist. Blacks, Asians, Whites, Purples, are all equally racist. It is bread into us. We root for our own tribe. The ones who wear the same war colors. Have the same skin color. The same military. The same border. The same language. The same sports team.

   Most of us cleverly hide our racism; afterall it isn’t fashionable these days. Some of us turn it into self loathing. We seek to compensate for some sort of wrong of the past. We do this by discriminating against the opposite. Ask yourself this, if Barack Obama was white, would he have even made it into the presidential primaries? Essentially, a man was elected, to control the most power nation on Earth, because of his skin color. Because it made people feel good. This explains the soldiers guilt, white guilt. It’s a shame we live is such a superficial society.

   Now lets discuss war. War is necessary. We are on a planet with limited resources. Currently our oceans fish stocks are being depleted, cropland is being lost, and fresh water is running out. What alternatives are available? Barring some serious technological innovation, not much.

   We could redistribute the resources equally among all. Nevermind that in the long run productivity would drop. Focus on the shift in standard of living for me and you. Say goodbye to your vehicle, the computer you are reading now, most of your possessions. Say hello to a new diet, gone are most meats, processed, convenience foods, and out of season fruits/vegetables. Westerners would be hit hard. We don’t know how to do anything anymore. Can you sew/mend your own garments? Can you garden? Fix your own tools? Make soap? Tend Animals? Fuck that, most westerners can’t even cook anymore. When we do cook we are wasteful, throwing out nearly as much as we consume. We can’t labor anymore, we have fancy machines to do even the most modest task. We have become fat, self-entitled, and lazy.

   You won’t be able to afford to be wasteful anymore. The GDP of the planet is around 60 trillion, per capita that is about $9000, everyone will get to work a fulltime job at $4.50 an hour, regardless of the effort you put in. These sorts of systems always seem to collapse when applied to anything larger than a small town. When you don’t even know your tribe members, it’s hard to give it all for the collective.

   Another option would be population reduction, sounds evil. War, eugenics, and stuff that sends Alex Jones into a rant. If the population was somewhere south of 500 million, human life, at our present standard of living would be sustainable. The question is, who gets to stay? Whose children get to stay? Whose genetics get to survive?

   War is the current method of choice. The strong exploit and kill the weak, just like on the nature channel. This is thoroughly disagreeable to most people who are removed from nature. They see it as evil, they vehemently engage in diatribes over it, while they eat their sterile packaged dinners.
   They act so enlightened, they don’t even realize what they would become if their creature comforts were taken away. Close the stores, shut down the electricity for a few weeks, let them get cold, hungry, and scared. They would revert to being animals quite quickly. They would lie, steal, and kill soon enough, hardly a true enlightenment. It’s funny watching people stand and applaud in this video. That is all they are good for, if they knew the true sacrifice they and their families would bear the audience would be a lot thinner. As Milton Friedman said “None of is greedy, it’s always the other fellow…” These people in the audience have no clue that their luxurious standard of living (which they see as status quo) depends on the exploitation of the weak.

   The strong exploit and kill the weak. As tragic and unfair as it seems, it is the only sustainable way. Anything else leads to debasement and extinction. You are reading this because your ancestors were the smartest, meanest, and best on the planet. You are healthier because of it. Those who killed, cooperated, and planned the best passed on their genes to us. We are the descendants of the best killers on the planet. The strongest tribes expanded to fill the lands. Now the strongest nations secure their place for future generations. This is the natural order. Helping out another genetic strain can only weaken your own. That is a natural law.

   What would happen if war ceased? We already know things aren’t sustainable. A population reduction would come. If there are too many rabbits in the forest, nature fixes it. It is easily modeled in a basic differential equation. The rabbits multiply, eat as much as they can in the short term. In the long run they run into food shortages. They also run into more predators, foxes thrive with more game around. Eventually the rabbits (and foxes) numbers come back to a long run equilibrium. Starvation, predation, and disease always force the population back to the sustainable equilibrium. Humans will be headed back to equilibrium too, one way or the other.

   Even today, with our fancy medicine. We keep people alive whom nature would have taken. As a result nature has bred bugs that are resistant to our medicine. Before the virus’ would only take the weak. Now we have virus’ that will kill the strong and healthy. Overall we are in a worse position than we started. The harder we push against nature, the harder it pushes back. You can’t delay the inevitable It always wins.

   So this video exposes who the real ‘enemy’ is for all the young minds who are just beginning to figure out how the world really works. They are the enemy because they are winners. They are the predators. They are in the upper echelon of society. But in reality they are just like you and me. They are just more successful than us, we aren’t doing to bad ourselves. We were born into luxury. They were born a bit higher. Next time you want to see the real enemy, look around, look in the mirror. You are no less a part of the machine than them. This is nature, hardwired into us. If not, prove me wrong and give it all up. I didn’t think so. You are going to continue to try to move up, to accumulate, influence, fulfill your genetic imperative.

   All of this sounds cold, harsh, and unforgiving. However it is the only logical outcome. You can’t beat nature. In order to best thrive you have to detach from emotion. Does our death really matter? Of course to us it’s important, but I am talking about the grand scheme. Will anyone remember your name in 100 years, maybe if you are a real mover and shaker. In 1000 years? Unlikely, unless you start a rebirth cult now. A million years? The answer is no. Everything you have touched will decay by then. In a billion years this planet will likely not harbor life anymore (we’re the next Venus due to solar radiation increases of 10%/Gigayear). Think you’ll live forever? Sorry, but entropy has other plans. Eventually, on some unimaginable timescale, all the matter in the universe will decay to heat. It’s unavoidable. In the grand scheme, me, you, our whole civilization, is nothing.

   Unless of course you believe in the popular North American invisible sky wizard. In which case his zombie self/son is coming, to save you, soon.

   LaoTze
   In order to make something stronger, you must first weaken it.

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