Logan's Run
Woody
May 7th, 2007
Try very hard to think of a way to reduce Earth's population down to
one billion "radically and intelligently". I'll wait...
Yeah, I didn't do too well, either. What a crazy concept. The
only problem is, there is actually at least one lunatic out there who
has proposed that very thing and considering how he views Humanity, I
think he's serious. We use every means at our disposal to kill viruses
that want to kill us and we lose not a moment's sleep at their demise.
Now imagine some fruitcake out there who views you and I in the same
manner; we're the virus!
Eco-Extremist Wants World
Population to Drop below 1 Billion
Sea Shepherd founder says mankind is a 'virus' and we need to 're-
wild the planet.'
You heard me...Paul Watson, founder and president of Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society wants you and I, or at least one of us, dead. My
guess would be both, though. He considers mankind a virus, a cancer
(he even referred to us as "the AIDS") on the Earth, and we must be
erradicated in large numbers.
He's not very shy about it, either. He wrote an editorial on May
4th in which he said:
"Curing a body of cancer requires radical and invasive therapy,
and therefore, curing the biosphere of the human virus will also
require a radical and invasive approach." Yikes! Keep this guy away
from the nukes, okay?
Just when you thought this global warming hoopla was a mere
annoyance, now we have this guy on the scene and I'm willing to plunk
down a few dinar and bet he has a following. Imagine a group of his
followers. Imagine a horde of them. Now imagine a legion. Am I the
crazy one? Well, let's take a look at history.
How many science fiction stories from the past have had the most
fantasic themes, and how many of those have come to fruition? The bad
news is, it works with bad things as well as the good.
Men flying into outer space on rockets. Bah!
Computers right on your desk, with access to everywhere. Bah!
Robots doing daily chores. Bah!
A madman who wants to wipe out 80% of humanity. Preposterous!
Yeah, tell me about it. Don't we have a bunch of folks up on
Capitol Hill working overtime on new hate crimes legislation? Don't
you think they should take a close look at this nut? Oh yeah, and once
those of us left standing begin the task of dealing with his version
of the "new world", he has a few rules to dole out.
"Who should have children? Those who are responsible and
completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very
small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas
some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the
desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be
eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the
child." Ay Carumba! Get the butterfly net, quick.
So what do you think, should we get ready for the reality TV
show, "Logan's Run"? I say we just run this Watson fellow off the
planet.
But that's just me.
-Woody