Thursday, March 16, 2017

Dead Harvest

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 rĂ©gime.

Copyright 2017, Mark L. Bennett


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