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logo    Will Mankind Suffer the Fate it Deserves


I've been off of blogging for some time; world events have been too depressing to generate the desire needed to blog. The devotion of politicians to age-old, failed policies is pushing mankind to catastrophes heretofore too unimaginable to talk about.

In spite of all the available evidence that the use of carbon-based fuels is destroying the qualities of the atmosphere that are necessary to preserve the climatic conditions that have made animal life possible, the political power structure makes abandoning this reliance on carbon-based fuels virtually impossible. The claim that no causal link has been proven between the use of these fuels and global warming is specious, for if we wait until absolute proof exists, the damage may be irreversible.

The disputes the Western world has with countries such as Iran and North Korea over the development of nuclear weapons has reached a feverish level of heat that is reminiscent of the heat generated when the Austrian Crown Prince was assassinated in Serbia that led to the Great War. And this heat is being generated by propaganda that has no basis in reality.

First, knowledge is a Pandoras box. When a scientific discovery is made, no bounds can be placed on its implementation. Sooner or later, the results of the discovery become available to all. Second, we are inconsistent in our application of prohibitions. Israel has atomic weapons, but no one seems to care. But when Israel's neighbors attempt to acquire such weapons, everyone screams, No, no way! Yet we have a history to consult. The Western nations tried to keep the Soviet Union from developing such weapons and failed. When those nations were confronted with the reality of Russian atomic weapons, the policy of assured mutual destruction was developed which many claim was responsible for maintaining the peace. Yet if AMD worked for the Western nations and the Soviet Union, why shouldn't it work for Israel and its neighbors? The Arabian states are justified in fearing attacks from Israel using the bomb, and the only adequate defense they can build is their own bomb and the threat of assured mutual destruction. Somehow it seems that the Western world's political leaders are merely too stupid to realize that the peace cannot be preserved by going to war.

The Western world's conflict with the Moslem world is, of course, of the Western world's making. It was the Western world that carved up the Middle East after the Great War to suit the national interests of Western nations. And it was a perfidious carving, for the Arabs had been induced to become allies of the Western nations with the promise of independence which they were then denied.

The state of Israel is also a creation of the Western world, and it was equally perfidious and illogical. True the displaced European Jews, a race that has suffered centuries of discrimination at the hands of the Western nations, were deserving of some recompense for their sufferings. But now those Jews were being led to believe that their salvation would now came at the hands of those same Western nations that for centuries had inflicted the pain.  And just as going to war to prevent war is an oxymoron, so too is displacing another people to make room for other displaced people. Creating the state of Israel by displacing the Palestinians was a solution of the problem of displaced Jews that could not possible succeed. All that the creation of the state of Israel accomplished was to move the problem of displaced people from Europe to the Middle East.

The state of Israel is itself a curious creation. Its own use of military force for almost sixty years has not produced the effect envisioned; yet, it refuses to abandon that policy. The displaced Palestinians are no more docile today that they were in 1948, and Arab hatred of Israelis has, if anything, increased. Without Western financing, Israel would have had to change its policies or perish a long time ago. And it is doubtful that even today, with Western financial support, that the state of Israel is sustainable. Just as even some Israelis themselves acknowledge, demographics alone is a major enemy. Unless both Israel and their Western supporters change their policies, sooner or later Israel will be overwhelmed by the sheer number of Arabs in their midst, unless, of course, the Western nations are willing to commit a massive genocide of the Arab peoples.

Yet the world persists in these suicidal policies. Is the cause ignorance, stupidity, or hubris? It doesnt matter, does it? Whatever the cause, the result is the same. Continued conflict, massive killing, and perhaps extinction of the human species. Perhaps thats the result our species deserves; it may be the only way to rid the world of the evils we humans have perpetrated and continue to perpetrate.

Religious theologians have said that mankind has been created in Gods image. Surely that is the grossest blasphemy ever uttered. (2/5/2006)