Why Politicians are Public Enemy No. 1

“Thus , for the first  time in  the history of man, we have known for  a little over  a decade that there  can be enough to go around and that we are  frustrated from realising  this epochal  potential because of the one hundred or som political  sovereignities which were set up  for mutually-exclusive survival  hopes  under  the Malthusian dictum”,  pg 246   Utopia or Oblivion, B. Fuller

This was written in 1967.  Today this quote is even more relevant than it was then, since we have better technology. Since we have better technology and distribution nets we can theoritcally and practically feed more people.Now Bucky mentions Malthus and his equation. Anybody remember the equation? I do.   Here is the equation and its solution;

The equation is basically of expontential growth without limits. It is used to model bacteria in biology. Malthus used it to model economic growth. The main idea  there is not enough resources for an expanding population, so there will be haves and have nots. The Malthusian equation is an extremely inaccurate model for predicting the future and yet politicians to this day rely on it If they know the logistic  law equation then shame on them for not putting it to use.   One of form the logistic equation is:

For more info on logistic equations see:http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LogisticEquation.html

 To continue on …

“Let us now consider what would happen  if we were  to take all the industrial  machinery away from all the industrial countries around the earth. This means pulling down all the wires, taking up all the tracks, removing all dynamos, and every motor, We take away all industrial equipment away from all countries in Europe,. We take it away from Russia, We take it away all the industrial machinery from China and Japan. We take it away from the United States and Canada. dump all the worlds industrialization into ocean. Within six months , two billion  human beings will starve to death , suffered greatly along the way.

  Now  I am  going to give  you another picture. I am going to leave all the industrial  machinery where it is….Next  we are going to take  away from all the countries of the earth all politicians, all the different political ideologies and the political  party  workers and evey kind. and we are going to send them  all of  for a trip around the sun  As long as the politicians are absent , everybody on earth has been eating is going to keep right on eating, and with all political barriers  down the prospects  of arranging  to take care of the needs  the rest will accelerate, and humanity everywhere on earth will prosper”, pg 247, Utopia or Oblivion

I think these statements are so obvious, The second quote is obvious. Politicians can blather on all they want ,without technology many  people would starve.  The second statement  isn’t that much harder to prove.  Let’s take wars. Wars are based on two reasons, religion and politics. In the past, both of these landed being the same.For the purpose of argument. we will deal with politics. If they are no politicians you can’t raise an army.  How about terrorists ?  Terrorists are politicians too. They have an agenda and usually implement it by force. The difference being terrorists don’t work for a government. Terrorists/freedom fighters work alone.

Lastly why don’t people get rid of government ?  One reason being people are afraid to live alone . They don’t want to have to take of eveything. Another reason is people like government services… All this will be explored in another posting