The migrant catastrophe

It tugs on the heartstrings of any caring, compassionate person to see the image making the rounds on the Internet of the immigrant father carrying the dead body of one of his innocent children out of the surf of the Mediterranean. Seeing the stark image made me want to weep as well, although I have hardened myself over the last ten years that I have been predicting mass population displacements in my blog posts. Well, as the Chambers Brothers used to sing, “The Time Has Come Today”; In fact, here it is: https://youtu.be/_zfgoJzOCgg

Now that you’ve had your Acid Trip for the day, what can we do? I have pointed out many times that five billion of us have to go in order for the rest of us to live sustainably. Few are willing to die voluntarily so that many others can live.Trying to think about this dilemma dispassionately is very hard because one must set aside religious beliefs and social value systems such as that of the USA which seeks the ‘greater good’ for everyone. So my only recourse for this discussion is to use reason, science, and non-Aristotelian logic (General Semantics). With all that said, here we go:

The ‘Great Die-off’ has to begin with those who drag everyone else down; the destroyers of resources and civilization, such as ISIL, followed by those who continue to over-breed as a sort of old age social security insurance policy, hoping that their children will take care of them. (I have to admit that this worked well for thousands of years in the past, but that was then and now it’s now).

So, it seems that our efforts to save the ‘Innocent’ masses that are migrating with their children out of regions of conflict, must be focused on those that are educated or have critical skills useful to the ‘survivors’ of humanity. The rest should likely be confined in camps in their countries of origin. Regardless of the firefights, ground wars, religious-based terrorism and so forth going on, this must be done quickly. And the camps must be provisioned adequately, including food and water, and guarded by the rest of us in order for the candidates to be tested and otherwise identified as worthy of salvation. If done in nature this would be called ‘Darwinism’ or ‘Natural Selection’. Unfortunately, this winnowing of the herd by nature usually takes thousands of years, and we no longer have the luxury of time. The candidates that get a ‘passing grade’ get assimilated into our societies carefully.

This kind of ‘testing’ and confinement must also take place within ‘developed’ countries, and ‘western’ or ‘democratic’ societies as well. When the dust settles, the ‘fit’ among us can start the rebuilding process. The new human paradigm will be environmental remediation, with forestry workers and fish& game folks having the same privileges as engineers, teachers, farmers, and physicians. Here is the alternative:

Advanced societies and countries will be quickly overrun and bankrupted, as well as suffer social collapse caused by displaced populations, terrorist infiltrators and fanatics. Feudal groups within the smoldering remains of ‘civilization’ will arise with the wealthy having their own armies, and social disorder will continue while the planet is being rendered uninhabitable by environmental change.

The Deluge (oil on canvas by Thomas Cole 1857)