Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the saying, “There are too many people…” is a fallacy of the most dangerous kind. Not only does it justify murder but it lowers human beings to less than human. Moreover, if there really are too many people, then what is the right number? Who decides that number… the experts? Who then decides who is an expert? What is to be done with the “surplus?” The more you think of it, the more inhuman that saying is. Do you really think people who say that honestly believe it? To the point they are willing to kill their loved ones to lower the surplus population? Because to believe it, they have to accept the consequences of that belief. If the experts rule that person is surplus, by their own admission and argument, they must willingly step into a wood chipper… for the greater good.
I don’t think anyone who recites that fallacy, “There are too many people,” really believes it, nor did they come to it organically. They think it sounds smart. I think they’re captured by an idea. A pernicious, evil and psychopathic idea to be sure, but an idea nonetheless. One way to know they are captured by an idea and didn’t come to it naturally is the way they defend it. Someone who is defending their own idea, is aware of their own limitations, and so are open to input, criticism and logic. Those captured by an idea are zealots who will broach no offense whatsoever. Any disagreement with that idea will generate an emotional response. Because, while we are unsure of our own ideas, knowing ourselves fallible, we are certain of the ideas our infallible heroes have thought through for us.
It’s a lot easier to believe prepackaged thoughts than come up with our own. In our busy day to day lives, who has time to think of the nature of humanity, our role in the universe, morality, good versus evil, economic theory, or the nature of truth? Too much of that… and we lose a finger chopping carrots. As a result, many of us browse through the shop of ideas, and glom onto the ones that suit us best. That’s all well and good, unless someone manipulates us into adopting and thus becoming captured by ideas that don’t suit us, and indeed are antithetical to our well being. Prepackaged ideas can be a useful way to keep all our fingers as we cook our supper, but when they are used to manipulate us into believing psychopathic, prepackaged ideas, it’s better to lose a digit.
When you look into the red eyes of an enraged middle aged woman, who is screaming, “There are too many people!” It has to occur to you that she may be willing to actually participate in a culling of the surplus. She is so zealous about it. As long as she and her loved ones are not the surplus… obviously. What are the odds she is thinking you’re surplus, because you disagree with the idea that’s captured her? Perhaps that’s unkind, maybe she’s arguing there is a surplus of people, in the most general sense. Never closing the logic loop to conclude, if there are too many people… some have to go, or never be born. Therefore, the fentanyl overdose problem, isn’t a problem, it’s a solution. Perhaps the covid pandemic and the vaccine deaths are a solution as well? In her mind…
“There are too many people…” is a mind virus, like rabies is a nervous system virus. It justifies the 120,000 overdose deaths a year from Fentanyl, thousands a year from abortion, the vaccine related injuries, covid deaths, etc… as the solution to the overpopulation “problem.” Wise people exploit levers, shortcuts and strategy, but not when those shortcuts are traps. Prepackaged ideas are shortcuts that can be helpful, but in our society, where malevolent elites manipulate us into evil prepackaged ideas, those shortcuts take us over freshly solidified lava. Only a fool, or someone manipulated into it, treads a path to certain death. The scariest thing to me, is that being captured by evil ideas, in time, leads to the most heinous of crimes. History is unambiguous you see, and history is known, to rhyme.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
