BTW, no joke this is a book by Daniel Quinn called ‘Ishmael’. Highly recommend
Super interesting concept, thanks for the book recommendation. Added to my list
I’ll second the book… read it in highschool,
It’s a bit sick-puppet-ish, but it’s still a good read.
“sick-puppet-ish”. Haven’t heard that one before. Checked urban dictionary but… I’m guessing that’s not what you were going for?
Sorry that should have been sock puppet.
It’s a (usually bad) way to make an argument; you stand up a false opponent to argument, but because you’re writing both sides they tend to come around.
You’ll see it a lot in “FAQs” put out by, for example, religiously minded folks “Sinners always ask how Boba Fet got out of the Sarlac pit”
(Answer: he didn’t that’s a Disney myth to sell more merch.)
So that’s why they shot him
So what? is the maker of this meme saying we need to do a “great reset” and start doing eugenics and culling of human beings?
There’s several billionaires that literally say that on the reg in the WEF. Those are the people who started saying “you will own nothing and be happy” and want us to eat bugs and have obedience chips in our brains.
Thanks for regurgitating InfoWars talking points. Alex Jones would be proud.
Sensing motive: “Damn, I’m pretty sure that this wannabe capitalist is either a troll or a bot.”
Edit: “oh look, I rolled a 20.”
Why does this discussion immediately turn to culling and eugenics? It’s like you can’t even admit there could be a problem. Fixing it will be hard, but few suggest those steps are the solution. Instead, it starts with realizing everyone can’t have the standard 2.5 kids. We cannot just keep going. Earth is finite and has finite resources. Adding people means less and less is available to everyone else. But people that want a ton of kids hate hearing that. So it becomes solution aversion (if you don’t like a solution, deny there is a problem) and strawmen, like claiming anyone that thinks there is overpopulation wants eugenics.
