It's a little-known fact that 'Overpopulation Today!' is actually a powerful mantra or spell that, if repeated quietly but firmly a set number of times, will quickly depopulate an area roughly the size of a football pitch. Of course this method, which is not entirely without risk, doesn't really thin down the population: it just makes you personally unpopular. But it's also not well recognised that being unpopular isn't nearly as bad as is widely thought. In fact if given half a chance it is found to be something of a boon, while comfortable unpopularity can be very expensive indeed. To start with, trying out one of the cheaper versions could quickly prove quite addictive, with no need whatsoever to assume that one will become a curmudgeon. That only happens when bad manners are used as a means of attaining unpopularity. Any religion or philosophy would have a hard time competing with genuine unpopularity for an amazingly peaceful, courteous way of living and a perfectly humane solution to the problem of—let's face it—mostly horrible relationships. Those are inevitable, you know, with such a steady increase in numbers per square head. The consequent self-contempt of compressed people is readily visited upon others as irritation or outright hatred.
Even as we write, Islamite fanatics In the grip of a virulent pathological creed indulge themselves in appalling behaviour and try to reduce populations by decapitating people. As happened in Russia, Nazi Germany and China, to name the most monstrous, these deeply diseased creatures kill by selected social category. Now an intelligent person, assuming for a moment that such a one could actually exist independently, would have no difficulty in deciding that the first category for elimination would be the perpetrators themselves of this Qur'an-based carnage. Apparently only a relatively few of them are willing to do away with themselves, but they are so thoroughly indoctrinated with nihilistic fury that they aim to kill as many normal citizens as they can at the same time. The decent thing for them to do would be to blow themselves up in a safe place, such as an area of total desert, maybe with a few diehard friends, waiting just enough time to shout the favourite phrase,'Allah hu akbar!' The sole and only way that Islamite fanaticism can show a bit of decency would be to detonate itself, together with the Prophet who started it all—with due regard of course to health and safety guidelines. That being unlikely, the civilized peoples must set to with a will and finish them off. Now's your chance, Mr Vladimir Putin, to show your solidarity with human decency instead of encouraging chaos and murder at your border.
(Incidentally, the term 'fascism,' which is being bandied about again these days, was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922-43) The regime of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also considered fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader and a strong demagogic approach. Sounds rather like the Russia of old and today, doesn't it?)
(Incidentally, the term 'fascism,' which is being bandied about again these days, was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922-43) The regime of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also considered fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader and a strong demagogic approach. Sounds rather like the Russia of old and today, doesn't it?)
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