___When
people have plenty, they often get lulled into a false-sense-of-security
assuming (ass.u.me.ing) that good-life will just continue indefinitely on its
own.
However:
“Those
who do not know history's mistakes
are doomed to repeat them.”
--Sir
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
“Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
--George
Santayana (1863-1952)
___Past
history has shown time & again that, when left to its natural progression,
everything goes in cycles of birth, growth, peak, decline, & death; e.g.,
neapolis, polis, metropolis, megalopolis, necropolis (new-city, city,
large-city, oversized-city, dead-city). The only hope of keeping a good thing
going is to keep renewing it. Otherwise it will most certainly go through its
natural phases to its death.
___A
perfect example of this is the socio-ecological calamity that transpired on
Rapa-Nui (Easter-Island) where a utopian-paradise degenerated down to
cannibalism (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ3kbX5jzX0). When a parasite
invades a host-body and develops enough to kill its host, in so doing it also
kills itself as well. While the masses of sheeple go about trudging through
their daily routines, stupidly-selfish human-parasites are organizing to
benefit themselves, not realizing that by so doing they are destroying the
whole organism-Earth and eventually themselves as well in the process.
___I
don’t think I need to bring attention to the fact that Billions upon Billions of
dollars are spent every year by 196 Earth’s countries maintaining (and using)
military forces whose primary training & purpose is to kill-people &
destroy-things.
When
you compare military with gangs, you see that they are the same, one legal
& glorified by its country, the other illegal & glorified by its
membership-&-auxiliaries.
As
of 2007, there were at least 30,000 gangs and 800,000 gang members ACTIVE across
the USA alone.[4][5] Police
say 80% of crimes throughout the country are committed by gang members.[8]
Both
forms of this selfish-destruction are WELL-ORGANIZED & financed either by
violent-crimes or by white-collar-crime of over-taxation.
And
regular sheeple just go about trudging through their daily-routines accepting
these social-disasters as inevitable, assuming they won’t ever victimize them
personally. How realistic are those presumptions?
___There
are 11 hot-wars being fought in the world today (not even counting smaller wars
which kill less than 1,000 humans/yr). Here in the USA we are told about Iraq(9th
biggest) & Afghanistan(3rd biggest), but those are
not the biggest wars. The 6th biggest war is raging just south
of our own Texas, and is spilling over into our own Texas. It’s the
Mexican-Drug-War. It’s been raging for 7 years, with over 83-thousand killed
(over 18-thousand killed in 2012). One of the 11 hot-wars has been going on
since 1948 with 220-thousand killed.
___The FASTEST-GROWING criminal-industry
today is human-trafficking (slavery);
a
market of between $9.5-Billion & $42.5-Billion/yr (hard to estimate
un-reported criminal industries).
“Human
trafficking is the crime of bringing people from one place to another for the
purpose of exploiting them in
~
forced-labor,
~
sexual-servitude, or
~
organ-removal.
Next
to
#1)
drugs, &
#2)
gun-trafficking,
[“There
are over 550-Million firearms
in worldwide circulation.
That's
1 firearm for every 12 people on the planet.
The
only question is: How do we arm the other 11?”
#3)
human-trafficking [SLAVERY] is the 3rd top [& fastest-growing] criminal
industry in the world.”
Amnesty-International
& other sources estimate that there are c. 27-Million slaves in the world
today, ½ of them children.
Between
800,000 & 4-Million humans are trafficked every year.
(Hard to estimate accurately.)
80%
are females. Far away? 90-thousand Americans disappear
EVERY-YEAR. Sure, some are runaways, some kidnapped by divorced parents or for
ransom, some are found dead, but more than ½ of them disappear into thin-air.
With “Big-Brother” face-recognition security-cameras everywhere (including
more-&-more traffic-cameras), with everyone needing picture ID’s to do just
about anything, with IRS, Dept-of-Homeland-Security, FBI-profiles-on-everyone,
now-legal-CIA-in-country-spying, NSA, etc. keeping close tabs on everyone, how
do all those thousands of Americans disappear into thin-air EVERY year? But no
one cares until it happens to them, and then they are faced with the harsh
reality that no one will come to their aid because no one cares until it
happens to them. Then those victims are faced with the harsh reality that no
one will come to their aid because no one cares until it happens to them. Then
those victims are faced with the harsh reality that no one will come to their
aid because no one cares until it happens to them.
___About
every 4 seconds another child dies from starvation. The educated &
economically-stable are practicing negative-population-growth, while the
uneducated-poor-desperate barbarian-masses are doubling Earth’s population in
ever-fewer number of years (http://www.worldometers.info/world-population).
G8
countries are becoming overrun by these desperate masses of uneducated-poor
just like the Roman-Empire was overrun by barbarians (who were driven west by
other barbarians) until it collapsed under this over-immigration. No matter how
large & resilient the Earth is, it’s never-the-less, finite in size. There
is just so much potential arable-land for food production, and already now
about every 4 seconds another child dies from starvation. So what’s next on the
menu? Cannibalism?
___80,000
American children are sexually abused each year. It has been estimated that 1
in 6 American women has been or will be sexually assaulted during her life. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#United_States) But no one cares until
it happens to them, and then they are faced with the harsh reality that no one
will come to their aid because no one cares until it happens to them.
___1Jan2013
a friend texted me: “I will listen to some audio Buddhist teachings today or
tomorrow.”
Do
you really think that listening to some audio-Buddhist-teachings today or
tomorrow, is really addressing all these challenges listed above? No one cares
until it happens to them, and then they are faced with the harsh reality that
no one will come to their aid because no one cares until it happens to them.
===================================
Solutions?
I would not mention all those problems above if I wouldn't also offer
some viable solutions:
Educate, EDUCATE, EDUCATE!!! Earn
Bachelor’s-degree.
Empower
individuals via such vehicles as ValueCreation
Constructive
individuals must unite into strong associations / societies / legions / alliances
/ concordats capable of out-competing the destructive ones which, as seen
above, are all too-well-organized. Way too many well-meaning individuals are
very reluctant to join forces with other constructive individuals, deceiving
themselves into thinking that all they need to do is meditate in seclusion
about “world-peace.” Every building that has ever been built started out as
someone’s meditation / thought, but then had to be talked over with others, then
acted upon by giving it to organized guilds of those who habituated building
skills. Unless someone collects & manufactures all his own raw building
materials (stones, logs, nails, glass, metal, hinges, rope, etc.) & puts
them all together w/o any help from anyone, no one in today’s world builds his
own building all by himself.
Partial
only; to be continued …
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Sex
needs to STOP being taboo all over the world. Spouses need to educate themselves
in pleasuring each-other FULLY, including voluntary-sex-slave-play,
voluntary-BDSM, voluntary-swinging-lifestyle, Kama-Sutra,
Human-Awareness-Institute (http://www.hai.org), Naturism-Nudism,
non-body-shame, roll-playing, voluntary-rape-play, etc. Contraception needs to
be made commonplace & readily available to all worldwide. Sex-restriction
laws that restrict what consenting-adults can do sexually need to be repealed
all over the world. Even some laws dealing with minors perhaps need to be
somewhat modified – when I was a minor and adult women attempted to seduce me,
I most certainly didn’t feel violated; I thanked my lucky-stars. Masturbation
needs to be liberated from shame. Legalize voluntary polygamy (both polygyny
& polyandry).
Prostitution needs to be legalized & monitored by
health-agencies like it is in Nevada, Amsterdam, & a number of countries (http://chartsbin.com/view/snb).
Sexual-repression which too often explodes into
inappropriate-abusive-sociopathic behaviors can be avoided by bringing sex out
of the closet. It is NOT to be promoted as something for reproduction only, and
sinful, dirty & shameful otherwise. If more spouses found pleasure in sex
and partook in voluntary-kinky-play with their spouses, fewer spouses would be
looking for it elsewhere. In medieval times, many men who could afford it would
have about 3 women in their life: a wife for reproduction & social-standing,
a mistress for romance, and a whore for unrestricted sexual-play. To a lesser
degree, powerful women would have their counterparts: a husband for
reproduction & social-standing, a lover for romance, & a stable-boy for
unrestricted romps-in-the-hay. Why not have spouses study to be all those to
each other, or at least have some understanding about the more-sexual spouse
occasionally playing with some surrogate? Family-planning ought to be
commonplace in every far-flung corner of this Earth. After a couple has a child
(& definitely after 2), they should both get themselves sterilized
(vasectomy & tubal-ligation), MOST-ESPECIALLY if they are in poorer
socio-economic levels. Why should they multiply like rabbits and then demand
that they are entitled to have more affluent society support their many
children, most of which just become thieving-street-urchins & criminal-gangbangers?
If a couple wants more than 1 or 2 kids, they can adopt – there are plenty of
orphans around. I don’t believe in many unnecessary, burdensome laws, but we (Earth-society)
must protect ourselves from population-pollution which threatens to drive
humanity to unimaginable extremes of “Lebensraum” (living-space) wars and
eventually cannibalism (like on Easter-Island). Don’t for a moment assume that
it could never happen.
Partial only; to be continued …
