James Bauhaus

Rivals

I don't really think in terms of rivals. I had some for about 15 minutes while I was trying to get a dirty, hard, low-pay concrete construction job before these Mexicans found the address, but we all got hired anyway. The way I feel, is this: if you can do it better than I can, then you go ahead. If I'm outclassing you, get out of the way. Efficiency and competence is the goal. Working smart is what put us on top of the world. Acting stupid makes people fall to the bottom of the pile. Whining gets you an extra kick, because no one wants to have his valuable time wasted by some able-bodied man crying, trying to get a free ride. If you suck at nuclear power generation, move on down the line until you find something you're good at. You could be very competent at many other things; people will let you try until you either master it and get respect, or it becomes apparent that you need to try something else. The line is long, and everybody is given plenty of chances. No matter how badly you may suck, there is always something you can do. You might be very good at moving heavy objects. As prosperous as the world is now, even many challenged persons are able to make themselves useful.

Of course, prosperity is declining, and as it does, some of these marginally-effective persons may become rivals. We're almost out of that free ride we got by killing all the whales, walruses and penguins for their oil. All that free oil in the ground has almost been pumped out and used to make many political and business parasites rich. Our glorious leaders have raped us for such a long, steady time that the top one percent own 95% of all the wealth. These rich rivals contribute almost nothing to society, but, as mankind slowly goes extinct over the next 200 years, their money and prosperity will buy them ever more costly resources required to live long after most of us died horribly, suffocating with bleeding lungs from the sulfide fumes.

These grinning gov/biz elites will be all over TV and the net, as they are now, pettifogging and bombasting the gullible and trusting, assuring us "out scientists will save us! "They'll bring us new technology! Stay calm! Continue with your lives as before! If you want to help, buy a car and some jewelry! Everything will be fine as long as none of us panic!"

Meanwhile, these leaders are quietly buying strategic properties and building secret pleasure palaces far to the north or south. When atmosphere carbon dioxide reaches 1,000 parts per million, causing the oceans to fart out all their hydrogen sulfide, these mega-rich onepercenters plan to have the last of the fresh air solely for themselves.

Though these slick politicians moan on and on about how safe "we" are, the facts are gradually escaping into public knowledge, and the educated of us can understand the implications. The scientists are deliberately not alarming the stupid, but they are analyzing the problem and planning. They are also trying to tell these silly politicians what needs to be done, now. Their best efforts to enlighten and talk sense to the powerful and rich classes have resulted in nothing much more substantive than that traveling slide show, Al Gore.

Sleazy politicians, as usual, have at least two plans. You've seen their public plan: let the public be blind-sided when the bomb goes off. You're seeing their private plans: yank up everything useful and run for safety! This time, however, there is no safety. Safety ran out in the 48 years since beat and hippie cultures first did the math on the human population bomb, and began the ecology crusade. It's too late, and we're all dead, just prior to the intelligencia decoding genetics and giving us eternal youth. Think of the irony! To die horribly due to destroying the ecology, just after we achieve immortality! The uneducated masses scoff. They make up at least 80% of the 6.7 billion people smothering this planet. These dims are a harder weight to move than the fats. They jealously whine, "this is just a scam to cheat us out of what's ours!" but they can be easily stampeded. The fats have been stampeding the dims throughout history. (See "Plague of Religions," to be added to my website, www.jamesbauhaus.org within a month, for a detailed analysis of this subject.) Immortalitv and the ease with which the dims are manipulated, may pose a way for the species of humanity to survive. Much can be done in 200 years, but there's no more time for nonsense, and it will require immense cooperation. Also, everyone will be required to sacrifice. As we work toward survival of the species, our rivals will become more powerful as far as sabotaging the common good.

It's crap like that that is going to figure heavily in who gets to survive the next great die-off. (Five other die-offs have been attributed to ocean-flips/co2-maximums besides the last one, only 75,000 years ago. That one almost got us; it shows in our genome that we were brought down to only a few thousand individuals, total world population.) Parasites like the welfare hogs are the first ones to get kicked off when the road gets rough.

And rough it will get. The only possibility of survival requires negative population growth. This means worldwide birth control. This means strict rules that restrict reproduction to persons of merit or genetic value only. With 6.7 billion people to choose from and 5.36 billion (80%) to get rid of, you won't qualify. (As long as we're doing this, we should do it right and to last, so 80% of the deadwood's got to go.) They'll live out their lives, leaving no descendants. This won't be enough. There will be widespread cheating. Some will have to be bribed with welfare and perks, some will have to be forced. Peaceful depopulation will be supplanted by genocide as times get more desperate. Most of the electricity will have to be rationed. The natural gas that the corporate raider, - "oilman" T. Boone Pickens thinks should power cars will go to generate electricity in place of coal. Joyriding will be stopped. Only cops and truck drivers will enjoy powerful, gasoline-and diesel-powered vehicles. Everyone else will be stuck with moving about the hard way. Air-cleaning stations will be built, livestock will be eaten and not replaced. Everyone will become vegetarians. We'll grow algae on the oceans and eat it. It will take the place of all the forests until we can grow them back. It will put a lot of CO2 into its substance while releasing oxygen. We will have to throw a few million tons of sunlight-reflecting dust in the air. Agricultural fertilization will be phased out-we'll have to grow our crops organically. With 80% fewer mouths to feed, we can shut down our toxic chemical factories, cut industrial production and consume drastically less power. With these changes, begun now, it looks like 20% of us could survive global furnace and reverse the colossal damage we' e done before we kill ourselves off! But only if we can beat our rivals, the facts, the dims and the parasites!

Soon as we get rid of these anvils, we can get a stable population that can be sustained without damage to the earth. The only "growth" will be through technology and knowledge, not human population. When we have this done, we can begin putting the animals back and resurrect the ones we've recently killed off over the past 100,000 years. We can repair the damage we've done, plus we can create our own versions of animals and plants to fill the remaining empty habitats. We can take a lot of pride in our achievement, but these will be insignificant compared to what we can do during the next 5 billion years before our sun burns out. Thanks to our triumph over ourselves and our own greed, we can shine for billions of years instead of fizzle to nothing after just evolving high enough to see, and recognize, ourselves in the mirror.