Benevolent Monsters

     Some benevolent-sounding people harbor actual intentions that verge on Satanic. Every now and then one makes the news. Maura Dowling provides one today:

     The Key Club of Rome member Dennis Meadows hopes the “necessary” depopulation of the planet, down to one billion—an 87.5% reduction from today’s population—can “occur in a civil way.”

     He and his fellow radicals have decided it’s necessary. The Key Club now works with the World Economic Forum (WEF).

     “I hope that it [depopulation] can occur in a civil way. I mean civil in a special way – a peaceful way, doesn’t mean that everybody’s happy. But it means that conflict isn’t solved through violence, through force, but rather in other ways.

     “And so that’s what I hope for …the planet can support something like a billion people, maybe two billion [we currently have 7.8 billion people in the world], depending on how much liberty and how much material consumption you want to have.”

     Doesn’t that sound just as gentle and soft as a caress with silk? Aside from the open desire to exterminate nearly ninety percent of Mankind, that is? Which Meadows hopes can be done “peacefully.”

     But note the wording throughout. The depopulation is “necessary;” therefore, any means required would be licit. And to “hope” always implies the possible failure of those hopes…in which case Meadows would discard “peaceful” methods in favor of whatever would bring the numbers down. Regretfully, of course. But it’s “necessary,” Comrade Citizen. You’re getting into the Annihilation Chamber whether you like it or not. Nice having known you.

     (What makes it “necessary?” Such questions are a clear sign of disloyalty, Citizen! Sit down and shut up.)

     I’ve written about this sort of monster before. Of course Eric Pianka, Pentti Linkola, and their fellow-travelers are less “hopeful” than Dennis Meadows, but the commonality of their aims is plain: mass death. Out of “necessity.”

     I have a little list – thank you, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert – that’s part of my planning for a fiction project:

• Sterilants in the water supply;
• Genetic engineering / Cloning;
• AI “sexbots” and “companions;”
• The homosexual and transgender movements;
• Abortion on demand, including post-natal abortion.

     Consider its contents. Each item has made an appearance in our world. When taken together, what do they point to?

     When you’ve sickened sufficiently of that list, consider this one:

• Hostility toward fossil fuels;
• Hostility to fission and fusion power;
• Opposition to new housing construction;
• Attempts to reduce agriculture worldwide;
• Destruction of existing educational institutions;
• Demands for the elimination of hard knowledge and merit-based practices.

     What does the aggregate say to you? Could the picture be any clearer? The “elites,” worldwide, hate us and want us gone. But “peacefully,” of course. And hopefully with no need to deal with a few billion corpses. But one way or another, they intend for it to happen. It’s “necessary.”

     Have a nice day.