It's the field of study that declares that humans will go extinct in anguish and agony, in starvation, because population and food demand goes up quadratically, while food supply goes up linearly. Extinction guaranteed in less than two generations unless we make radical changes. Pretty bleak, innit?
...Except Malthus wrote it in 1798.
Turns out, humans are REALLY good at NOT being locusts. We have brains and brawn, creativity and tenacity. We have made there be MORE food, MORE wildlife, MORE everything, really, than ever before. And whenever Malthus' ghost starts "boo"ing from the shadows at our growth, we invent new methods, new routes.
If you must compare humans to a disaster, they're more akin to a wildfire than a locust swarm. They consume quite a bit, but in their wake is fresher, cleaner, more fertile ground, that will produce and handle more than it could before. An initial destruction followed by greater reconstructions.
far back in prehistory, when the first primeval Vogons crawled out of the sea, evolution gave up on them. Through sheer obstinacy, though, the Vogons survived (partly by adapting a misplaced, badly malformed, and dyspeptic liver into a brain). As the radio show says: "What nature refused to give to them, they did without. Until their myriad anatomical deficiencies could be rectified with surgery." They then emigrated en masse to the MeagaBrantis star cluster (although the film has them staying on Vogsphere), the political hub of the galaxy. They banish the ruling philosophers to the tax office to lick stamps and within a few short Voge years took over pretty much all of the galactic civil service, where they form most of the Galactic bureaucracy
guess why they are so allergic to all forms of "aggression" ... because they provoke aggression and violence, where ever they show up, only to lecture the native/primitive people about "morals" and "pacifism"
“When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened our eyes, we had the Bible and they had the land.” ― Desmond Tutu
communities rejecting intersectionality and critical theory.
This is our only shred of hope. The midterm elections and the next Prez election will be watersheds one way or the other.
I predict if the right makes gains or manages to clean house we will see a reaction from the left and its media apparatus that makes Trump Derangement Syndrome look like the hula-hoop craze. In the best case, this will cause them to self-destruct. In the worst case we will see even more election cheating and a doubling-down on craziness from the Usual Suspects, with maybe even a hot war with Russia in the mix.
They simply force their values on everyone wherever they go. Yeah, it doesn't help that their values lead to bad outcomes. This doesn't seem to concern them.
yeah. in the old days, we just said "good manners".
growing up in a middle-class home (with both parents and some siblings) is a good foundation for mental health.
in contrast, if your family and neighbors have surrendered to nihilism, "no future", shortsight, "life is pain", junk life, white trash, sarcasm, etc ... escaping that hell-on-earth is near-impossible for a child.
in general, such "ideological" arguments are useful to distract from such real values ("socio-economic status", friends and influence), in effect: economic warfare by the 1% upper class, trying to kill the 90% lower class in the "war on overpopulation"
109 planets?
Sounds like humans to me.
That is the leftist view, yes.
Similar to CRT, leftists project their own shitty behaviour onto the entire population.
So, instead of stopping the behaviour, they continue to ruin things while simultaneously attacking "humanity" for doing the thing they are decrying.
"humans"
Have you ever heard of Malthusian economics?
It's the field of study that declares that humans will go extinct in anguish and agony, in starvation, because population and food demand goes up quadratically, while food supply goes up linearly. Extinction guaranteed in less than two generations unless we make radical changes. Pretty bleak, innit?
...Except Malthus wrote it in 1798.
Turns out, humans are REALLY good at NOT being locusts. We have brains and brawn, creativity and tenacity. We have made there be MORE food, MORE wildlife, MORE everything, really, than ever before. And whenever Malthus' ghost starts "boo"ing from the shadows at our growth, we invent new methods, new routes.
If you must compare humans to a disaster, they're more akin to a wildfire than a locust swarm. They consume quite a bit, but in their wake is fresher, cleaner, more fertile ground, that will produce and handle more than it could before. An initial destruction followed by greater reconstructions.
It's the core of Critical Theory. Problematize something until you control it and then destroy it.
yes, marxism, I thought so.
You left out the best parts after that.
This sounds like humans, too.
You're not wrong, that was the reason given why the aliens attacked.
In Oblivion it was for seawater, for some reason.
Seawater is delicious.
Wasn't a movie, it was just a fading memory of reality from when you had briefly woken up.
Plot of Oblivion as well. Only with more Tom Cruise.
Battle Los Angeles.
Leftism is literally a plague.
Leftists be like: That's a nice local game store you've got there. It would be a shame if guys started showing up in dresses
Unfair comparison, because the dress-men will show up anyway. You literally can't pay them off to leave you alone.
And at least the Mob will go after any dumb punk who DOES rob someone who is paying "protection money" to them.
these invaders are only defeated by violence
guess why they are so allergic to all forms of "aggression" ... because they provoke aggression and violence, where ever they show up, only to lecture the native/primitive people about "morals" and "pacifism"
“When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened our eyes, we had the Bible and they had the land.” ― Desmond Tutu
This is our only shred of hope. The midterm elections and the next Prez election will be watersheds one way or the other.
I predict if the right makes gains or manages to clean house we will see a reaction from the left and its media apparatus that makes Trump Derangement Syndrome look like the hula-hoop craze. In the best case, this will cause them to self-destruct. In the worst case we will see even more election cheating and a doubling-down on craziness from the Usual Suspects, with maybe even a hot war with Russia in the mix.
They're infected with a mind virus that preserves the host but destroys everything around it.
Have you seen trans people?
The host is not being protected.
They simply force their values on everyone wherever they go. Yeah, it doesn't help that their values lead to bad outcomes. This doesn't seem to concern them.
make that 100%
yeah. in the old days, we just said "good manners".
growing up in a middle-class home (with both parents and some siblings) is a good foundation for mental health.
in contrast, if your family and neighbors have surrendered to nihilism, "no future", shortsight, "life is pain", junk life, white trash, sarcasm, etc ... escaping that hell-on-earth is near-impossible for a child.
in general, such "ideological" arguments are useful to distract from such real values ("socio-economic status", friends and influence), in effect: economic warfare by the 1% upper class, trying to kill the 90% lower class in the "war on overpopulation"
Oy vey