Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Some World Problems & Some Solutions



___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?”
             (Lord-of-War: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Gs1CUBt_0)]
#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.)
(a true-story movie about UN participation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al3anBiHwmI).
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.

___Every 16 seconds another girl has her clitoris cut off, usually by her own family. And it’s not only in backward corners of the under-developed world. 100,000 women in United-Kingdom are w/o their clitoris. American-Academy-of-Pediatrics seems to be promoting approval of unnecessary clitorectomies. (http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/05/american-academy-of-pediatrics-approval-of-clitorectomies.html)
 

___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.

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Solutions? I would not mention all those problems above if I wouldn't also offer some viable solutions:
Educate, EDUCATEEDUCATE!!!  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 …

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