Arbitrary Nihilism
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Historian, Philosophy, Logic.
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Joined October 2015
This is the world I live in whether or not the rest want to join me.
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14/ Western political, academic, and philanthropic elites, explicitly stated and WORKED TOWARDS slowing, capping, and REDUCING population. This was not secret or fringe. It was a dominant paradigm shaping policy, foreign aid, scientific research, and global governance. Wake up!
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13/ This happened with Western (Rockefeller) funding/ support. These were elite-driven, technocratic interventions. So it doesn't take a "conspiracy theorist to see a very OBVIOUS pattern.
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12/ ...of their "sustainable development" policies. The World Bank, IMF, UN Population Fund (UNFPA), and WHO all incorporated fertility reduction into development planning. In some countries (70's India, 90's Peru, one-child China) this translated into coercive programs.
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11/ ...regularly treated population reduction as a moral/ecological imperative. Paul Ehrlich, Garrett Hardin, and Barry Commoner were invited into elite circles, testified before Congress, and SHAPED ACTUAL POLICY. International institutions adopted population control as a pillar
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10/ Elites believed overpopulation would cause revolution, famine, and geopolitical instability, which they saw as existential threats to their power. Environmental movements were heavily influenced by neo-Malthusianism. Groups like the Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) etc
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9/ MacArthur Foundations funded population-control research, contraceptive technology, demographic modeling, pilot sterilization programs, and “family planning” initiatives tied to economic aid. The funding was gigantic compared to other social initiatives of the era.
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8/ President Carter’s science advisor John P. Holdren co-authored books proposing “planetary management,” population caps, and even COERCIVE options if voluntary methods failed. Philanthropic elites invested billions into population reduction as The Rockefeller, Ford, and...
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7/ Prestigious journals like Science and Nature published Malthusian and “limits-to-growth” arguments. The Club of Rome’s 1972 report “The Limits to Growth” became globally influential among elites, calling for controlled contraction of population and consumption.
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6/ NSSM-200 also advocates fertility control through foreign aid, NGOs, contraceptive distribution programs, and economic pressure. Also, in the 1960s-80s, Nobel laureates like James Watson & William Shockley expressed strong population-control views.
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5/ “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests", written by Henry Kissinger. It explicitly recommends mass population-reduction programs in developing countries & argues that population growth threatens access to strategic resources.
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4/ U.S. government documents explicitly endorsed population reduction from the late 1960s through the 1970s, and an openly stated U.S. foreign-policy priority. The most famous example is NSSM-200 (1974). A declassified U.S. National Security Council memorandum titled...
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3/ and major academic institutions like Stanford, Harvard, and MIT. These groups actively funded research, policy advocacy, and pilot programs for fertility reduction, especially in the developing world.
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2/ This produced a mainstream elite consensus, including, The Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Population Council (founded by John D. Rockefeller III specifically for population reduction), U.S. State Department/CIA analysts, Club of Rome (international elite think tank)
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1/ If you don't understand Malthusianism then you don't know what is going on in the world. After World War II, Western governments/foundations believed global population growth was outpacing food supply & would destabilize the geopolitical order.
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“We must rapidly bring the world population under control, reducing the growth rate to zero or making it negative. Conscious regulation of human numbers must be achieved.” - Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University Bing Professor of Population Studies 1968
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Malthusianism. If you don't know about it, you don't know the driving force behind politics. You don't know that we are intentionally being depopulated. You don't understand history.
Horses in 1910: "This new technology is really reducing our workload. We're going to have so much more time on our hands to run in the pasture. Life will be easier." Horses in 1920: "What is a glue factory, and why is our owner taking us there?" 1/
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2/ Horses v. cars in NYC in 1900 (left.) Horses v. cars in NYC in 1913 (right.)
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
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Somebody needs to write a country song about being the only San Francisco 49ers fan in South Carolina
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