garyb wrote:Nestor, the managers intend to reduce human population to 500 million. how can that be done without wholesale slaughter? relax. it doesn't matter what you think.

I don’t agree with you Gary, it does matter what you and me think, of course it does! How can you relax facing up this madness? All on the contrary, we have to act in favor of people and real values now, helping each other a lot, becoming more human than ever before.
A war like this one is threatening the very meaning of being a “human being”, if we take it lightly and just relax for whatever reason: fear, depression, sadness, etc., we would be doing what Quakers did when the Mexican looters came to rape their families… you cannot just seat and watch, can you? You have to do something, even if you lose your life trying to defend your family! Our situation is similar and we have to fight this war with the weapons of “mass-construction”, like this modest thread, which is only looking for some awareness among people that are not yet aware of what is going on, so we use some goodwill to talk to each other and understand, sharing knowledge, sharing understanding, sharing our souls hopefully.
I feel an strange resistance from people when talking about this possible war, I understand that there is a psychological halt somewhere, a self-defense mechanism where we do not want to accept that something like this could happen. We tend to think that something that has never happened before will never happen in the future, like tens of nukes flying our sky in a sudden. But we, the people of this 21st century, are psychologically ill people, sensitively unbalanced people ready for a fight at any time, and are capable of that and much more.
When I say “we”, including everyone and myself, I do it entirely in purpose, because I believe firmly that mankind is psychologically ill: violence, anger, self-sufficiency, dishonesty, exploitation, sexual degeneration, perversity, torture, jalousie, disgusting competence, and thousands of other distortions exist within us. These seeds exist within each one of us and it is obvious today that we are, physically, psychologically and spiritually degenerating as a race. I could pass entire days giving you proves, evidences, that we are degenerating and becoming worse people with the years. Of course, there is an enormous rejection to this idea in general, a huge resistance, as most people believe the best of themselves because they don’t know themselves. We all tend to believe we are much better than we actually are, this is known by any psychologist. It is curious that when someone believes of himself to be perfect or without defects (what is truly laughable), they are always less “human” and “colder” than those who maturely can see and accept their own defects. It is too easy to complain against the regime, against politicians, against the world as a whole against the rulers of the world, washing our hands entirely, avoiding the responsibility of our disastrous social and human life, totally unfair. We have all participated in the world we see today, this is and incontrovertible truth. We all participate when we use petrol, when we hold a very small cell phone build up with coltran, when we buy extremely cheap products that goes against our fellows in our country, when we earn ridiculous amounts of money doing very simple-little jobs while others earn a miserable wage doing lots of efforts, every time we go with the trend exploiting nature like crazy, when we get dirty the peak of a mountain. We all participate in the evil of this world every time we see anything related with pornography, as there is pain, and more and more pain behind what it seems to be pleasure., denaturalization of our instincts. There is evil every time someone buys drugs helping the mafia of this world growing stronger and stronger, when you get something to go high, there is possibly a policeman out there that will go down, yeaa, it’s not your problem, but you are participating unwillingly in all this.
We need to change, so no excuses, and no blind eyes to what we are and what we have done through many centuries to this world.
Of course, I will never compare the evil that exists within the rotten hearts of those bloodthirsty people that are behind the big picture, those who care nothing about anything except themselves, cruel as cruelty itself, those who prepare the wars, the strategies, the food to kill, with us, “street-people”, but we are participating in the state of this world, so we need to change within and without.