Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: But it's not always the case, I guess in practical matters, it's
not. You said that, for example, the war on drugs hasn't worked,
the war on terrorism hasn't worked, and so we've actually made
those things worse by "fighting them".
MORGAN CARAWAY: Exactly. How much has it changed? It
hasn't changed the war on anything. They've been saying the war
on poverty for how long?
TRIP: I agree. So I thought that through, but you know what, I
came up with one where you're wrong about that. We had a war
on diseases and we beat the crap out of a bunch of those diseases.
So we…
MORGAN CARAWAY: True, we did. On the other hand it's like a
boomerang, we got rid of those infectious diseases, but that used
to be one of the main things that kept the human population in
check.
WIZARD: But now we're calling greed a disease.
MORGAN CARAWAY: Yes. I mean, they think there'll be 10
billion people on the planet by 2030, and petroleum is going to be
running out, you're probably familiar with this, Trip, the idea of
peak oil, and post oil society. So, yes, we did beat those diseases,
but humans are still held by the same laws that every other
creature in nature is, there are limited resources, and it can only
support so much population.
In a strange way we did win that war. And I think any species
would have done it, we're not bad in doing it, because who wants
to see their family members die a horrible agonising death, scarlet
fever, or something. But in the end it's turned around to bite us on
the butt, because our population has gotten way out of hand now.
WIZARD: Yes, now social security can't handle all these old
people.
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