Has there been any other era in history where the establishment embraced a spiraling spaghetti pot of madness like this one? Satire has been useless for a while now. Anything you can think up, no matter how crazy, is either already a leftist viewpoint somewhere or will shortly become one.
A breeding program to make human beings short to save the planet? New York Times op-ed unlocked.
Short people don’t just save resources, but as resources become scarcer because of the earth’s growing population and global warming, they may also be best suited for long-term survival (and not just because more of us will be able to jam into spaceships when we are forced off this planet we wrecked…
When you mate with shorter people, you’re potentially saving the planet by shrinking the needs of subsequent generations. Lowering the height minimum for prospective partners on your dating profile is a step toward a greener planet…
I want my children’s children to know the value of short. I want them to call themselves “short drinks of water” with “legs for minutes.” While one yells, “I’m the shortest,” I hope the other will bend his knees to gain an advantage, shouting, “No, I’m the shortest!”
How many resources does Mrs. Altman generate by writing op-eds for major media outlets? As opposed to a 5’9 dairy farmer in Minnesota?
The people obsessed with husbanding resources on what they claim is a shrinking planet invariably produce nothing of any use to anyone.
If she’s really concerned with saving resources though, she can move from San Diego to Minnesota which would be much more resource efficient.
But that’s not happening.
However expect some version of this to be embraced by environmentalists before too long, followed by further efforts to ban dairy products and replace them with soy, and a dwarf lobby that will fight to ban medications that help children grow the same way that conversion therapy was banned.
The Left is insane, but also entirely predictable to anyone who has been following their insanity.
“Has there been any other era in history where the establishment embraced a spiraling spaghetti pot of madness like this one?”
Yes, the Christian Dark Ages, the Muslim Dark Ages, and the Hindu Dark Ages. But then they were embracing the sacrificial madness for an alleged higher reward in an after-life or in the next reincarnation. The secular madness of Marxism/Globalism offers no reward for all the sacrificing, pain, and suffering. Sacrifice is its end, sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice, sacrifice as a way of life.
“Collectivism does not preach sacrifice as a temporary means to some desirable end. Sacrifice is its end—sacrifice as a way of life. It is man’s independence, success, prosperity, and happiness that collectivists wish to destroy.” – Ayn Rand
That’s why I believe Leonard Peikoff is correct when he says that Marxism/Globalism can not and will not last on it’s own. Marxism/Globalism must and will collapse back into religion where it came from. That religion will be either Islam or Christianity sending the West back into a religious Dark Age.
Dr. Peikoff argues that not only is secular Leftism even crazier, more irrational, than religion and therefore intolerable even to a semi-rational person (so that the semi-rationality of religion is preferable) but without a promised reward in an after-life people will not endure the pain, suffering, poverty, and mass death of a secular irrational system. The promise of an eternal Utopia in an after-life is the key to sustaining a religion of sacrifice indefinitely.
It’s a scam, artificial things don’t evolve, they are rearranged when the need arises. They just want to take your money and use your kids.
The dark ages of the Catholics and Muslims were mostly about power and control. It was evil but somewhat sane. They never said people should be homosexual midgets to ensure humanity’s survival. It’s like foot binding in Asia mixed with 14th century catholicism or any Islam mixed with scientology and an earth cult. Daniel did not say they are the only deranged, but they are for sure the most.
For Jews serving for a reward is an extremely low level of service, you can see looking back that every good deed made you go from a turkey to an eagle on repeat, and if you want to hold lies your heart will reject that it doesn’t matter to you forever, whatever helps you sleep at night. There’s always a few million with near death experiences in every generation to remind you that everything was watched, and go to any funeral and listen to know what matters.
To explain the scam, you can sum up the entire left in the many pictures of young men participating to gawk at the women, except the women is your money and he set up the parade.
The dark ages were dark precisely because Christianity had not been accepted yet by the multitude of invaders who caused chaos in what used to be the Roman empire. I never heard of any ‘muslim’ or Hindu’ dark ages, but I constantly see people nowadays confusing ‘the dark ages’ with the Middle Ages that saw one of the civilization peaks in Europe in the 13th century.
A collapse of reason leads to a dark age of unreason in that society. It is accurate to describe the brief Nazi period in Germany as a dark age of unreason. The 75 year period of the Soviet dictatorship as a dark age of unreason.
The Renaissance, the rebirth of reason, not Christian faith and dogma, produced the modern, technological, advanced, West and America.
The dark ages were dark precisely because Christian faith, dogma, superstition, and mysticism had replaced reason as the dominant approach to life.
Reason was never the dominant approach to life.
The Left specializes in short sightedness.
No one can argue it doesn’t works. Look where we are. We could not have done it without them.
Airliners are already configured for people with small legs and feet. What is next? Cars that drive themselves even if drivers do not see over the steering wheel? Alice’s shrinking pills? Since this suggestion is from The New York Times, it surely “follows the science” fiction. The Times will not practice affirmative policies favoring short people. For example, those selected to load stacks of papers on delivery trucks will not be little people carrying smaller stacks.
Not sure about Alice’s pills but the right side of the mushroom makes you small and the left makes you large.
I may have read that book a few to many times to my daughter.
Grace Slick had a cool house in Bolinas that I walked by many times, on my way to the surfing beach. Some of my surfing buddies worked for her there 🙂
“Satire has been useless for a while now.”
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Daniel’s observation is spot-on. The conceits proffered by Dumb-o-crats/Leftists are so manifestly foolish, infantile, corrosive, irrational and destructive, it’s entirely accurate to state that they are self-satirizing. There is no need for third-party satirists to go to work, when the Dumbs and Leftists do the job quite ably, themselves.
Banning dairy is insane. It took thousands of years of evolution for humans to tolerate dairy. The whole Vegan thing is insane, vegetarians need dairy.
We are the only species on earth that drinks the milk from another species yet most people would be appalled at drinking human milk.
Not normally, but many mammals have nursed off other mammals. Dogs will adopt all kinds of other mammals. I wasn’t breast fed and didn’t like milk past 3, unless it had chocolate, strawberry, or sugar(on cereal) in it. I did, however, try breast milk in my 20’s, and liked it. It tasted like it had sugar in it. A lot of people are appalled at the idea (reminds me of a Friends episode- that my roommate could probably name and number), but I don’t have a problem with it.
Good grief what next?
In recognition of the contribution of diversity to a vibrant and equitable democracy, I insist the government provide Berlitz Language Training subsidies for chimpanzees and bonnobos.
Not forever, that would be absurd. Just long enough to pass the citizenship exam.
Imagine how effective our fighting forces become when our soldiers need mechanical weaponry systems as a back up, in case the prospect of getting their faces bitten off [ typical chimp aggression ] doesn’t cause any potential foe to [ rightly ] flee in terror.
Of course, the rest of us will have to atone for our past transgressions. J Fred Muggs will be the new George Floyd. Zoos will be converted to holocaust museums. Planet of the Apes will become as loaded as Birth of a Nation. And we may have to paint acronyms in yellow on our urban tarmacs while hooligans for equity torch our cites very night free of inclement weather.
But it’ll be worth it.
Mental midgets?
Great angle for short guys to score, lmao, woke women will buy about anything. I wonder if Altman practices what she preaches, or is she just another leftist hypocrite virtue signaling?
“ I want them to call themselves “short drinks of water” with “legs for minutes.” – Shouldn’t she be reporting for woke sensitivity training? Is she going to make her children short by systematically starving them?
Or we could just adopt marxism. The starving North Koreans have become shorter over the last 60 years, and the affluent capitalist South Koreans have gotten taller.