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The Perfect Problem Sam Aurelius Milam III Sometime during the 1970s, some relief agency sent me a request for donations to save the starving children. I sent the agency a reply in which I stated that, if it saved the starving children in that generation, then there would be twice as many starving children in the next generation. Almost 50 years later, time has verified the legitimacy of my concern, if not the actual numbers. That is, the number of starving children might not exactly double with each generation, but the principle is valid. Feeding the starving children, by itself, doesn’t reduce the number of starving children in the world. On the contrary, it tends to help those in the current generation to survive and reproduce, thus enabling them to increase the number of starving children in the next generation. I suggest that we need to reconsider our understanding of what is and what isn’t humane, or even effective. Is it humane to save some starving children now, without addressing the population explosion, thereby ensuring the existence of even more starving children in the future? That’s what the people in the relief agencies appear to be doing. They certainly aren’t solving either problem. Instead, they’re enabling both problems to get worse.
GIGO Sam Aurelius Milam III Here's a little information about men, for those women who might not be aware of it. When a woman sashays into view, a man doesn’t notice whether or not she can do triple integrals in her head, or if she has a vocabulary second only to the Oxford English Dictionary. He notices that she's female. Are men sexist? Of course we’re sexist. We’re males of the species. Were supposed to be sexist. For decades, women have declared that we’re “pigs”, that we “think with our penises”, that we want only “one thing” from women, and have expressed various other derogatory opinions of us. Do they even listen to themselves? Apparently not because, for all of those decades, they’ve forced their way into our presence, welcome or not, and made themselves as provocative as possible, evidently without any awareness of their own predictions about what to expect from us. For all of that time, we’ve behaved pretty much as they said we would. Repeatedly, they’ve acted like they didn’t expect it, in spite of the fact that they predicted it. They keep appearing in front of the cameras, the judges, or both, seemingly in unbelieving shock, lamenting about how they were harassed, abused, or molested by men, without any acknowledgment that they predicted it in the first place and then knowingly placed themselves in harm’s way. Here’s a hint. It’s impossible for a woman to be raped if she isn’t there. If women would accept us for what they’ve accused us of being, all along, and behave accordingly, then they’d probably stay out of trouble, at least most of the time. Things would probably be better for everybody, even for the women. My experience with women suggests to me that such rational behavior is unlikely. I expect that, instead, they’ll probably continue to sow the same seeds and harvest the same crop. Garbage in, garbage out.
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Sam Aurelius Milam III So far as I’m aware, there has never yet been a human society that was actually a civilization. They all seem to have been populated mostly by uncivilized people, lacking understanding or humility. That disqualifies those societies from being called civilizations. They’re societies, but not civilizations. Elusive Sam Aurelius Milam III
Over the years, I became increasingly reluctant to deal with the stupidity of fools and the arrogance of fanatics. I gradually withdrew from contact with other people. Now, I live alone and I try to stay alone. I’m not necessarily less a fool or less a fanatic than the others but at least I don’t have to put up with them.
The various nonsense that I see on the TV reminds me of my strategy of solitude, and verifies its validity. Maybe, in solitude, tranquility can be found.
I’d like to believe that such things as tranquility aren’t analogous to Dyer’s idea about peace and war. I’d like to believe that such things can exist other than only in contrast to fear and stress.
Such understanding might have to wait until people are not merely organized into societies, but are actually civilized. Contagion an excerpt from This World is Taboo, by Murray Leinster A plague kills off those who are susceptible to it, leaving immunes to build up a world again. But immunes are the first to be killed when a mass neurosis sweeps a population. Conflict Sam Aurelius Milam III Also see Born to Rave, in Pharos A combative individual will behave aggressively toward neighboring individuals, forcing upon peaceful neighbors an incentive to become combative. Individuals who fail or refuse to become combative will have a diminishing influence over events. Individuals who do become combative will spread combativeness to an ever increasing number of other individuals. Combative individuals will band together into mutually hostile factions. Over the long term, combative individuals within a society will spread conflict throughout the entire society. Tommy’s Poem Thomas George Milam Death is the key to all life. There is no peace without strife. All good is equal to all bad. All that is happy is always sad. That which is fast has always been slow. What we forget is all that we know. To fall in love is to toy with hate. To destroy is but to create. For life to be dark it must be pale. For man to succeed he need but fail. For creation to die it must first live. So all may receive all must give. For man to be cruel he must have a heart. That existence may cease it must first start. Stray Thoughts Sam Aurelius Milam III • Courtesy is offered. Political correctness is imposed. • Regulation promotes violations. Prohibition encourages crime. The American Dream Sam Aurelius Milam III I see baffled pundits, reporters, politicians, and others, worrying about how fragmented the country is, and wondering why. To me it’s obvious. People in every faction are yelling, waving signs, and blocking traffic, all demanding equality for themselves, but not for anybody else. People in each faction demand that their own specially privileged equality must be forcibly and uniformly imposed on everybody. Of course the country is fragmented. The frenzied demand for equality is based on false assumptions and false expectations. Nature is unequal. Life is unequal. Everybody is unequal. Everything is unequal, but I can think of something that’s worse than inequality. That something is mandatory, selective equality. When people demand equality, but only for themselves, then they need to be reminded that, if it doesn’t work in all directions, for everybody, all at the same time, then it isn’t equality. Sadly, it seems that The American Dream is for the government to forcibly impose a person’s own particular behavior and ideology onto everybody else, equally.
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