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beatthedrum posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago
James Corbett is probably well known within the Giza community; this latest post is about the ongoing furphy of growth, both economic and population, and how the narrative on both has been continually skewed to ehnance ideas that support a ‘closed’ approach (think scarcity and ‘overpopulation) rather than a more ‘open’ one. IMO James lays out the case pretty convincingly…in the end, it WILL take human beings to solve human problems, and we most certainly need more human imagination and creativity rather than less right now! 🙂 https://www.corbettreport.com/limitstogrowth/
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Corbett does some really good work, IMO. This scarcity/overpopulation idea is, apparently, a leitmotiv that’s as old as the hills. Dr. Farrell has pointed out the 18th-century Venetian monk whose theory of the Earth’s maximum human carrying capacity predated Malthus’s more famous theory. I remember Webster Tarpley saying somewhere that the idea goes back to ancient Greece. I suspect it goes back further than that. Tarpley once called this obsession with overpopulation a “tropism of oligarchy,” and I think that’s correct.
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I completely agree, well said Sir! I do wonder if they might grab other more “known” people now going forward.
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I would argue it goes back further than that to ancient times. Let’s not forget those Sumerian/Mesopotamian myths of Enlil becoming tired of man’s “noise” and “clamoring”, wanting to wipe them out…or Enki “terrifying humans with his awesome, venomous word; by his putting an end to universal human speech and thus afflicting humankind with the babel of tongues – all because he was jealous of his brother Enlil.” (pg. 2, The Myths of Enki by Samuel Kramer). Any of these things sound familiar or contemporary? And let’s also not forget it was the Chaldean Senatorial families that moved north into the northern Italian city-states, like Venice.
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Indeed… Good memory! Mine isn’t always what it used to be.
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