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.| Current World Population https://www.census.gov/popclock/world Population Curve http://frontiersman.org.uk/Population/Curve.html |
It seems to me that a lot of the benefit provided by the relief agencies has accrued to the agency members themselves, in the form
of self-esteem, local and international acclaim, and job security.
If that’s true then, for the people in the relief agencies, it’s the
perfect problem. The harder they try to solve it, the worse it gets,
and the more they’re needed. Their self-esteem, local and international acclaim, and job security are assured.
| The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a
giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our
holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There
is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life
we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless,
even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless. —Eric Hoffer in Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements |
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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