Although I, personally, have been feverishly working to prevent the Malthusian reckoning for nearly 3 decades, I have to recognize that conditions are increasingly favoring Søren Renner’s prophecy “Billions will die, we will win.” There are militarily sophisticated optimists, such as John Robb who, based on fourth generation warfare theory, are holding out for a newly decentralized global economy that bypasses massive organizations. However, these optimists don’t seem to understand that once you accept group authority over individuals, you doom yourself to mass warfare as these groups are, in essence, asexually reproducing organisms that don’t die as do sexually reproducing species, but merely compete with other asexual organisms in their ecological niche, and without limit, for mitotic resources. These organisms will doom the planet unless a dramatic expansion of carrying capacity and reduction of ecological footprint are achieved soon. I continue to work toward this end but pragmatism increasingly dictates evaluating Malthusian options.

Civilization Takedown is the only Malthusian option that retains the human species.

Civilization itself can avoid mass warfare only by uniting the world in one mass organism which is inherently intolerant of individuals. In this, civilization’s end-point is to eliminate the human species as we know it—at best, breeding for a eusocial species. Mass warfare between these asexual species will increasingly become warfare against individuals—indeed against human sexuality (except in perverted expression)—within the mass organisms.

The Indo-Europeans understood this but were progressively bogged down in India by the Dravidians—expressing in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and in the Mideast thence Mediterranean by the Semites—expressing as Judeo-Christianity. The last hold-outs of the culture of individual sovereignty were the Vikings. Therefore, as the Malthusian crisis emerges, it becomes increasingly likely that some phenomenon like the Vikings will re-emerge. A future post will provide a more viable Malthusian option, but for now I’ll settle for advising against the—ultimately unsuccessful—Viking strategy. Below the fold is an incisive description of that era related in the chapter “The Revolt of the Vikings” of the book “Human History Viewed As Sovereign Individuals Versus Manipulated Masses” from the Valorian Society.

THE REVOLT OF THE VIKINGS

Opposing cultures cannot be mixed. The opposition between them is mortal and eternal. The culture of mass manipulation drove the last remnant of the individual sovereignty people, who had avoided involvement, into hideouts along the northern coasts.

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden afforded the best areas for their resistance. They took to the sea in long boats from inlets (inlet = Vik) and were called Vikings.

Within the confused chaos that was now Northern Europe, the Vikings recognized that their major enemy was the Catholic Church. It was the underhanded tactics of the Church, not the open force of the Roman Empire, that had done such vast damage to their culture.

Beginning about fifteen hundred years ago they went every place that was available to their long black boats with about fourty men each. They launched raids in areas where the Church dominated the people. With indignation and contempt they killed those who had been faithless to themselves and their own culture and accepted the enemy. They, of course, made a special point of burning the monasteries and nunneries and killing monks, nuns, and priests.

They freed great areas in England and Northern France (Normandy) from Church control. They went as far as Greenland and America searching for new homelands.

They were making a valiant stand in defense of their culture. They were already badly outnumbered. But they were strong-willed, steadfast in their comradeship, and of unexcelled courage when facing their enemies.

They held out for about six hundred years. But gradually, one leader after another met some kindly priest, who was sincerely struggling for a buried truth about Jesus underneath the falseness of the manipulators. One leader after another glimpsed what the sincere priests were seeking. They allowed the anti-Christ “Christianity” to come in.

The priests, nuns, and monks were allowed to teach little children the twisted words of the Church.

Rollo set up a Viking power in Normandy strong enough to continually raid Paris, but he joined the Church and was accepted as part of the overall power in 912. He was given a “position” with the title of Duke.

Gorm set up a protected individual sovereignty area encompassing all Denmark which lasted until his death in 940. Then his son, Harold Bluetooth, was baptized and allowed the Church to take over in Denmark.

Harold the Fairhaired consolidated all Norway into a resistance against the Church in 872. His great-grandson let in the power of the Church in 1020.

Sweden held out for almost another hundred years but finally lost the battle against the mass manipulators.

The children were then all sent to schools where they were taught nothing about the all important conflict of cultures. Instead, they were taught that their ancestors were “barbarians” and the “fortunate” children would now have the great privileged of building a “modern civilized” group entity.

The Church’s practices of selectively breeding for mass manipulation were rapidly put into effect. But the products of a culture that had long been breeding in the opposite direction did not provide much base for selective breeding in a diametrically opposed direction.

Also, fragments of the old cultural practices persisted.

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Aside from flesh and blood individual sovereignty people who came from countless centuries of selective breeding by their culture, and aside from the disjointed fragments of the old cultural practices that have persisted, the thing about the Western World that distinguishes it from the Orient is the memory that the culture of mass manipulation does not have to be accepted as “the way things are.”

In the Western World, there is still a cherished knowledge that once a fully functioning culture of individual sovereignty existed. And it is well remembered that such a culture made for a life enriched—beyond the conceptiuon of manipulated masses—by a deep abiding love and joyful comradeship.

For more milleniums than there exists any historical record, that culture was maintained against the encroaching culture of mass manipulation.

That memory has not yet been fully destroyed.

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