Friday, January 27, 2006.
By Pascal Fervor
Clearly (at least to me) the very word “overpopulation” was coined containing an assertion that such a thing is not only possible, it is a certainty in need of “fixing.”
As I see it, the possibility of overpopulation is in direct contradiction with the very core of Americanism: to the recognition that each innocent individual has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Americanism is dedicated to building and maintaining institutions that foster and protect these rights.
I have attempted for many years to write a short, clear, and compelling rallying essay [if there is a good word for such, I will supplant the words “rallying essay” with it] that will overturn the hegemonic pessimism and anti-humanism that this rotten word, overpopulation, seems to instill on a great number of otherwise decent and often bright people.
I have failed.
So now I turn to you, and any who you may know who feel as I do, to write what I cannot.
I will publish it here gratefully or you can publish it elsewhere and not give me any credit. I really don't need the publicity. What matters most to me is that a call to mount a relentless counteroffensive be written and that it reach decent people everywhere. Humanity, and those who admire what America has always promised and what is at the core of the best in the Judeo-Christian tradition, needed this yesterday. I fear we may be running out of time, but I remain optimistic. I know some of you, or even one of you, can make a difference.
I will consider offering a small sum (I am not rich, but I am desperate) for what impresses me in 500 words or less.
Please be very aware that fighting all that is implied by “overpopulation” is not very popular. As my friend Fran Porretto made me aware in one of the many essays when he has written on the subject of the very busy death cults, here is what one renowned proponent of population control said, in alarm, when it was first rumored that a source of clean, unlimited energy had been discovered:
Paul Ehrlich: “It would be like giving a machine gun to an idiot child.”
It is, in my humble opinion, important to your health and those you love to understand that the idiot child to whom Dr. Ehrlich referred most definitely includes those who are not politically astute enough to sign on to the “Age of Limits” ideology as only those gifted like him understand. The Age of Reason seems to have produced two very important fruits: Americanism with its implied optimism, and its bitter rival, pessimistic Malthusianism and much else consequent to it.
Please help me ally all optimists in a most important reawakening.
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