Walls
Sam Aurelius Milam III
In the beginning there was a wall, and many people died while trying to cross it. The number of people who were alive after crossing the wall was far smaller than the number of
people who’d lived prior to the crossing. Those survivors lived
among the ruins, as scavengers. In such situations, certain kinds
of behavior tend to promote the survival of the species. It isn’t necessarily simple but, simply stated, it amounts to having as many kids as possible and taking whatever you want without asking. Over succeeding generations, people who were more prone to such behavior had more descendants. Their DNA accumulated in the surviving population. As the ruins fell into dust, the descendants of the scavengers adapted, and became hunter-gatherers. Over the generations, the same kinds of
people continued to have more descendants. Their DNA continued to accumulate
in the population.
Eventually, people developed settled communities. The kind of behavior that had previously promoted the survival of the species had different results in such communities. In those communities, it promoted overpopulation, hunger, disease, and conflict. The people in those communities developed technologies that compensated somewhat for their new problems, but that also enabled further population growth.
I might be wrong about this but it seems to me that most or all of the social ills in our entire history have been a result of local or regional overcrowding. The characteristics of our ancestors are still a part of our DNA. We’re still behaving as they did. The result
is world-wide overpopulation, hunger, disease, and conflict.
Our technology has allowed us to compensate somewhat, but we’ve reached
a level of overpopulation that can’t possibly be sustained without the technology. The problems caused by the growing population are
accumulating in such a way that they’re beginning to interfere with
the ability of our technology to function. We can’t sustain the population
without the technology and the technology can’t continue to function with
such a large population. The population curve that I keep showing can be viewed in different ways. With its nearly vertical slope, it looks a lot like a wall, figuratively speaking. There are many myths, legends, and theories about our origins but I suggest that, at least most recently, it was a wall. Now, as our ancestors have done before, maybe many
times before, it seems that we’re facing another wall. 
Letters to the Editor
Greetings Sam,
I pray this finds you very well in all respects,
especially in good health.... A lot of great info in the FM [September issue]. The piece about international law is a gem — if only today’s power grabbers would adhere to the wisdom expressed in Bouvier’s 1889. Your Thoughtcrime
piece is spot on. The fact that Alex Jones was ever going to
trial was alarming enough as I saw the slippery slope then barreling
down the pike. But, then the conviction ... if ever there were
ever a judicial atrocity justifying whole country protests, this should
have been it. It makes all the past “Stella Awards” jackass winners pale to dust in comparison as to the judicial damage by means of the slippery slope. Jones may be a slick charlatan in his
business/marketing side (that’s my direct experience with him), and
he may deserve a huge amount of praise for exposing so much to the
masses of the hidden horrors & dangers of government thugs gone criminally
mad against everyone who’s not in their camp — but both extremes are
irrelevant to the 
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