tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804513671389132165.post8922541283133026105..comments2023-07-25T07:08:51.934-06:00Comments on Bill Longstaff: We were hell on other species before we were even usBill Longstaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15883751372039947365noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804513671389132165.post-64300877160443192222013-11-07T16:01:41.796-07:002013-11-07T16:01:41.796-07:00Humans are hyper-adaptable predators. Kind of like...Humans are hyper-adaptable predators. Kind of like a plague. Eventually the plague kills off its host organism which leads to it own demise. We can adapt to everything but ourselves. <br /><br />I think economics is the most important issue. It governs human behavior on a mass scale. Free-market ideology is a nihilist philosophy based on social Darwinism and self-aggrandizement of sociopathic alpha males who couldn't care less if civilization is destroyed after they're dead. Unlike humans, these Übermenschen (super-men) have no investiture in progeny. <br /><br />So unless we take democratic control of the global economy humanity is toast.<br /><br />But we don't have to reinvent the wheel. The centrist Keynesian mixed-market system provides the regulatory framework that can eventually build a world economy based on 100% renewable energy and recyclable materials that provides at least a minimum living wage for all the world's inhabitants. It's phenomenal, unprecedented success in the post-war era is all the proof we need that it works. (The left and right-wing extremes of communism and free-market capitalism both crashed and burned.) Ron Wallerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120060083437508997noreply@blogger.com