tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867260065662559631.post829432848152590666..comments2024-03-28T13:30:14.573-07:00Comments on CanSpeccy: Liberal PygmiesCShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03399620869685840906noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867260065662559631.post-56488499399136250732011-12-14T10:33:22.432-08:002011-12-14T10:33:22.432-08:00Gavin, interesting comments. But the future holds ...Gavin, interesting comments. But the future holds many possibilities.<br /><br />Yes, cheap oil is running out, but at current prices there are literally trillions of barrels available from the tar sands, shales and the redevelopment of conventional fields, so I don't think the US Military will run short of gas anytime soon.<br /><br />Moreover, for every barrel of oil already consumed there are many barrels of oil equivalent in the form of natural gas, which if necessary can be converted to a liquid fuel.<br /><br />For that reason, among others, I doubt we will see a return to a low tech military any time soon, or therefore, a return to a anything resembling a genuine democracy.<br /><br />(I am assuming, here, that <a href="http://www.carrollquigley.net/" rel="nofollow">Carroll Quigley</a> was correct in his view that democracy arose as a necessary condition of citizen armies and that it will fade away as the military becomes increasingly the preserve of highly trained specialists.)<br /><br />On the contrary, it seems more likely that we will see the development of an increasingly sophisticated pseudo-democracy managed by a well concealed cadre of highly skilled scientists and technicians that entirely conceals from citizens the real source and nature of power.<br /><br />In such a world we might very well see the emergence of two human species, the Eloi and the Morlocks of HG Wells dystopian novel the Time Machine, i.e., an elite class, the Eloi, living completely apart from the slave class, the Morlocks.<br /><br />It would be a simple matter to genetically engineer both classes to (a) prevent inter-class breeding and (b) to give each of the resultant species the appropriated characteristics: beauty, longevity, etc. for the Eloi, servility, and for the Morlocks, whatever physical or mental powers are required to fulfill their allotted tasks.<br /><br />Under that scenario, presumably all the original human diversity would be trashed, unless someone had the foresight to create some kind of genetic archive: probably a collection of DNA samples, not people. Thus, human cultural diversity would be trashed along with the people who created it.<br /><br />Wells predicted this development in the year 802,701 AD, in which prognostication he may have been out by about eight hundred thousand years.CShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03399620869685840906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867260065662559631.post-75194090246184924992011-12-13T23:49:42.489-08:002011-12-13T23:49:42.489-08:00The paradigms of multiculturalism and diversity we...The paradigms of multiculturalism and diversity were invented by the elite as virtues a few decades ago, to replace the previous virtue of patriotism, because they met specific economic and geopolitical needs of the elite. But - as is found in evolution - those needs will not be permanent. <br /><br />In other words, a patriotic and homogenous population was useful to the elite when wars were fought by low tech armies based on mass conscription. (The USA army has famously never won a war since it was integrated in the early 1950s, but then it has never fought such a war where the outcome was of any importance.) But wars are currently fought by tiny professional armies, almost always overseas, backed by total reliance on high tech tools, air power but especially nuclear weapons. But this high tech kit is dependent on plentiful supplies of cheap oil. <br /><br />As oil supplies decline, and Crude & Condensate has been flat since 2005, then wars of the future look likely to be much more low tech and - thanks to mass immigration - much more domestic.<br /><br />I wouldn't be surprised if a paradigm of "post diversity" begins to be floated by the elite - in a plausible denial kind of way, of course - within the next few years.<br /><br />If you want more background, then look at net exports of oil from the middle east, that is production less the rapidly increasing proportion needed for domestic consumption (mostly electricity and de-salination). Saudi Arabia might need to use 100% internally within 15 years, but that would mean no means of paying for 100% imported food.<br /><br />GavinthornburyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com