Some
Facebook friends posted this video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax5A3r_z4KA&feature=share
Everyone
should view this exposition of the poverty, abandoned investment and threat to
our food supply caused by environmental extremism. The moral and legal balance of equities
concept is drown by lawsuits and legislative maneuvers seemingly more numerous
that the delta smelt they claim to protect.
My
first thoughts were of mass starvation during Stalin’s land collectivization in
the Ukraine. But then I realized that this was also another manifestation of
our ahistorical times and the distorted reasoning it creates. Constructing both flood control and
irrigation channels gave the ancient Mesopotamians the desire for an activist
government. This six thousand year old tradition has been carried through Roman
aqueducts to our present Western Civilization.
In
a pointless prior Facebook discussion, it was asserted than government-funded
roads for projects such as Newman Ridge were socialist and that certain
individuals were phony conservatives. But collective public works goes back at least 10,000 years in the archaeological record. Long before the money economy during the hunting or
farming off seasons, whole communities of people would build their roads, houses
of worship and other facilities. When one dismisses our shared history and
makes policy decisions based only in their rationalizing minds, anything can
come out. Vladimir Lenin had that quality.
Concepts
like gender fluidity can grow only in an isolated consciousness that feeds only
upon itself. That style of awareness can
also justify the hardships of the Central Valley for their idiosyncratic ideal
of justice. But as difficult as it is for the victims to endure, or others of
us just to watch, I am hearted and optimistic. With decisions as daft as this - and many others, including dam maintenance - too many people can’t be fooled for
too much longer. The time is ripe for a populist leader to emerge and overthrow
California’s ancien régime.
Copyright
2017, Mark L. Bennett
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