genocide 101

GENOCIDE 101


A loyal minion made a statement, that while technically correct in one aspect, was misleading and must be analyzed, pondered, deconstructed and in general talked about far too much to satisfy my sense of fair play and enhance my paralyzing feelings of impending doom. And, while we are on that subject-never fear, we shall return to the original teaser before you nod off- lately I’ve been reading more than a few older books that are simply astounding me. Not because they are the standard “change human nature at the same time you elect a leader actually worth a crap who isn’t controlled by the banking cartel and watch as all monied interests gleefully give up all their wealth and power and then by gum we’ll all be saved from the impending disaster” type of drivel that is pretty much the only thing out there ( Matt Savinar is about the only exception I can recall, and that forces me to conclude that out of all the scumbag whore puke face lawyers out there, at least one is a human being ), but because contrasting the general consensus of reality then to actually reality now, a short five years later, is astounding. “The Upside Of Down”, “The End Of Oil”, even “The End Of Fossil Energy” and “Crossing The Rubicon”, all look about in wonderment at data from 2005 and before and admit they know Peak Oil is coming along but they just don’t know when ( hint- it happened as there books were being printed in 2005 ). They also admit ethanol might slightly effect food prices ( reality check-triple or quadruple price increases on food, and that is before this years bad weather in counted in ), but nuclear power ( Japan, Nebraska ), breeder reactors ( only two or three in the world today, more experimental than practical ) or hydrogen, or a few other magic bullets will help us ease into transition. This actually ties into today’s article, but for now just keep in mind that all the experts were really friggin overly optimistic about ONLY five years. Imagine how bad their twenty year forecast is going to be.

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Afore mentioned minion stated, in our discussion on gunpowder and power, that without the Whites using repeating rifles the Indians might have won. I won’t dispute that because as Billy Bad Ass as the pioneers were, the natives were a lot tougher and better at asymmetrical warfare. They knew the terrain, they grew up living in nature and could use it to their advantage. On a small unit tactical level, the Indians were usually better fighters. Most indigenous non-farmers are, comparatively speaking. And, I get the casual reference to Back East Manufacturing. The Indians had no way to stop the railroads bringing supplies to the settled/being settled areas. Even if the repeating rifle had never evolved and muzzle loaders were the dominant military arm, the steady supply of them and their users from the railroads would have killed off the Indians.

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So, manufacturing rather than the rifle itself defeated the Indians. Up to a certain point. It wasn’t disease, because that had been a factor for two hundred years already. And, while wholesale slaughter of the buffalo wiping out the food source of the Indians didn’t help matters any ( the equivalent of salting all the fields of Carthage ), it only finished the Indians off- it wasn’t the primary strategy that weakened them up to that point. The Indians were doomed from the start. Not because of disease, or our superior weaponry ( our laissez-faire capitalism ensured most weapons were sold to them in desired quantities, usually ), the far better technology, farming or our population explosion. All those things together killed them, but they were all made possible by the Old World way of doing business. Instead of living sustainably off the land as the Indians did, the new arrivals mined the land. Instead of living off the interest from the sun, they started digging into the principle. This is the underlying source of all our wealth on this continent, we are miners. And yet, all those wonderful books out there killing trees base their whole strategy of survival on living sustainably. The same strategy that doomed the Indians.

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Do you see the problem yet? Energy superiority, now oil but throughout all of human history the last ten thousand years in the form of surplus food, decides the victor in conflict ( all things being equal ). Whites cut down the forests and dammed the rivers and dug the coal that allowed their population to soar in crowded urban environments ( causing the continuation of Old World diseases that cut down the Indian populations ), which put pressure on western expansion and etc. Energy surplus in the form of NON-sustainable practices won them a continent. Backwoods Home Magazine, permaculture practitioners, all the advocates of living close to the land, raising food sustainably, harmonizing your farming to Mother Nature, all of that is great, and the only way to live forever without damaging the land. But guess what? It is not a sound strategy outside of a vacuum because the guy next door will practice Farming/Energy Production Mining, non-sustainable and energy superior to you. And will defeat you. You can have all the cute plastic guns you want, and they will prevail tactically, but big picture, strategy wise, you’ve already lost the war. As soon as your stockpile is gone, surplus energy prevails.

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I don’t bring this up to disparage farming. Not at all. Farming is a winning strategy as it creates surplus energy ( early Roman wheat production produced a 12 to 1 Energy Return On Investment, even better than a lot of our marginal fossil fuel production today which can be as low as 7 to 1 for deep water rigs or even lower for Canadian tar sands ). Sustainable farming, however, creates less of a return on investment. The surplus is being returned to the soil for perpetual health. If you mine the soil instead, steal from its future fertility, you create a surplus. Surplus energy wins. Get it? Even the Chinese example upholds this. They might have been able to keep their land producing century after century, but there was a hidden price. Non farmland was used for biomass harvesting, meat was nearly eliminated from most diets, regular famines dipped population low enough to keep pressure off depleting the soil, etc.

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A community wide, country wide strategy for basic survival is to gain an energy surplus. I don’t care that we are currently occupying the middle east to steal oil. That is keeping Americans alive ( any leader that wants to put us in an energy decrease situation, if there is an alternative, is dooming us to military defeat/genocide ). I just can’t stand the hypocrisy involved in selling that to the public. Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it is raining, don’t put lipstick on a pig and tell me that’s my date, and don’t sell me horse crap about democracy or Al Quida terrorists or whatever. Just call it what it is. We are stealing energy to survive. After the collapse, sustainability will be defeated by that quest by others for energy surplus. Be on the winning side.

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