Such Oratory!

Okey-doke? Build on what progress?

From Gateway Pundit.

Various blogs I visit regularly have widely divergent views on the future of the human race. Some say it’s all over but the shouting while others believe that some benign superbeing has a long-range plan for us that we can’t possibly comprehend and it’ll all be fine after the long tribulation, much of which is of our own making.

One lady blends the two together: deeply devout and confident in her Christian faith, she sees both the good and bad in individuals, convinced that all we really need is to accept Jesus bar-Joseph as our savior and anything that happens after that is inconsequential because we’ll all be saved and in paradise for eternity.

I don’t pretend to know, but I think her obvious belief that politics and government are much greater threats to humanity than climate change and Donald Trump is pretty close to the mark. And although I’d like to buy into the paradise thing, I’m not quite as optimistic about any form of salvation as is she; I’m just not sure we’re worth the effort.

The human race will not last forever unless it gets off this planet. One day the core will slow enough to significantly reduce the magnetosphere protecting us from solar bombardment and those of us who don’t starve to death will die from exposure and other exposure-related conditions such as melanomas .

Also, eventually the moon, whose orbit ranges farther and farther from the planet each year by a couple of inches or so, will escape, allowing planetary wobble and resultant seasonal chaos with murderous floods, droughts, cyclones, and so on.

And finally the sun will morph into a red giant as it runs out of fuel, expanding outward to at least the orbit of Jupiter and reducing earth and the other rocky inner planets to cinders. To survive as a species, we gotta grow up and get outta this neighborhood.

But I predict that the human race will die long before any of that happens, mostly because of its tendency toward gluttony, waste, war, and ignorance. Basically, I believe that humanity will die because of its civilization.

Do people live longer today? Yes, of course life expectancy has more than doubled over the past few centuries. But in my opinion, the gene pool is being seriously compromised by total disregard for one of nature’s primary rules: survival of the fittest.

I won’t even bother to give examples of that except to mention the inexorable trend toward entitlement societies. Also, our physical sciences have for thousands of years been focused on two things: creature comforts and the relentless search for the ultimate weapon.

Each new generation develops more marvelous toys and gadgets, many of which are then quickly adapted to new and exciting tools for killing each other. And many of our “wonder drugs” have been around so long that we’re losing natural immunity to various diseases, while at the same time many old diseases we thought were under control have become superbugs, resistant to even the strongest antibiotics.

Essentially our civilization’s bennies are counterbalanced by the unintended consequence of completely stifling our survival instincts and replacing them with political correctness, another sweeping generalization I don’t think needs much explanation.

In fact, today our physical sciences are outpacing our social sciences by a wide margin. Every new system we develop which should enlighten us and allow greater knowledge growth and sharing is immediately bastardized or prostituted.

Television should have been a great educational tool, but it was instantly corrupted into the “boob tube” and employed as a babysitter and propaganda tool. The Internet is eroding interpersonal communication skills, taking minds away from conversation and reading to gorge themselves on trivia and porn.

Our civilization is like an adolescent boy, full of energy and new ideas, but guided by neither reliable instinct nor fully developed reasoning powers. And government has become more of a bloodsucking leech than a trustworthy guardian. Again, that remark needs no expansion or proof.

Today’s western civilization is like a rebel without a cause, a kid in a hormone riot with a mind-altering substance in one hand and a pressure-cooker bomb in the other, a mind full of questions and an ear full of doctrine. Government can’t do anything about him until he’s committed a crime, which he eventually will, and then some judge will blame society for his “syndrome.”

We like to think we’re very modern, sophisticated, advanced people, but if someone comes up and smacks us upside the head, we cannot stop the flow of adrenaline the act triggers. Underneath our thin veneer of political correctness and culture, we’re still hairless apes. The problem is that when that adrenaline hits our system, we no longer know what the hell to do with it because we’ve wussified ourselves into paranoid nebbishes.

Well . . . look at it this way: civilization, especially western culture, is not the pinnacle of whatever endgame our DNA blueprint originally intended. I don’t know what the big game plan is, but I know that if you read history, you’ll realize that our “civilization” is merely a series of delusionary episodes separating periods of savagery and barbarism.

Most of the time our civilization is nothing more than a thin layer of dust, debris, and disinformation over a seething volcano of fear, greed, hatred, aggression, lust, jealousy, paranoia, self-indulgence, egotism, and ignorance.

As Ronnie RayGun once said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” And I’m not at all certain that my grandchildren’s generation will ever know it to the degree that I did. I’m damned sure they’ll never know the freedom of eating foods without reading the warning labels, or the great satisfaction of having a classic innocent fistfight with a kid over some stupid disagreement and then becoming lifelong friends with him.

Some more fine writin’ from Ron.

We should take warning labels off stuff and let Darwin take its course. Unfortunately, that allows stupid people to sue companies because of their own stupidity, like the idiot who burned herself on Mickey D.’s coffee. We have stupid people breeding, like the irresponsible mother who allowed her kid to get into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, and causing the death of a gorilla. Stupid people breed stupid people. Our social welfare policies has caused an explosion of stupid people. The IQ of our country is going down. Another reason for the drop in the national IQ is allowing stupid people to immigrate into this country. Not only does this make the country dumber, but they are also bringing in diseases. Yannow, we used to check immigrants for diseases before letting them come into the country. We no longer do this because the stupid people in this country have elected stupid leaders.

Thanks stupid Americans! You gave us Obungler and there is a good chance you will give us Thunder Rodent Thighs.

We’re doomed!