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Thread ID: 9265 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2003-08-25
2003-08-25 07:36 | User Profile
I just watched the 1973 sci-fi classic Soylent Green by screenwriter Stanley Greenberg, directed by Richard Fleischer, and produced by Walter Seltzer. In the dystopia of the future, the environment has been destroyed by industry resulting in the extinction of nearly every plant and animal. Yet, the biggest problem with the future is over-population. New York City has 40 million people. The majority are homeless for lack of living space. They live mostly on Soylent Green, a square wafer made ofââ¬Â¦ well, there arenââ¬â¢t any plants or animals to make it from. And, for lack of the Equal Rights Amendment, women of the future are nothing more than furniture.
Watching Cable TV, Iââ¬â¢ve seen some other old classic TV shows with the theme of overpopulation. An episode of All in the Family featured Meathead refusing to have a child because the world is so dangerously overpopulated. In an episode of Star Trek, Captain Kirk visits a planet so crowded that people live literally shoulder to shoulder and they are desperate for space.
I never hear about overpopulation anymore. Modern TV shows and movies donââ¬â¢t address that. Why not? The world is much more populated now than thirty years ago? When did overpopulation stop being a problem?
Would Americans be so tolerant of millions of rapidly reproducing Hispanics pouring into America if the liberal/neocon media was still alarming the public about overpopulation?
If I were paranoid, Iââ¬â¢d guess that overpopulation stopped being a problem once white birthrates dropped below replacement levels. As long as sexual preferences for women and social engineering keep white women choosing work over children, the specter of overpopulation is kept away.
Do you think the likes of Greenberg, Fleischer, and Seltzer might ever get together and produce a dystopian picture of the future where Spanish is the primary language in the USA, a very overpopulated and hispanic land, and the very few whites around are highly exploited and abused?
2003-08-25 13:49 | User Profile
Hack, remember: the Sierra Club doesn't like overpopulation, urban sprawl, deforestation, or increased gasoline/oil usage.
But they won't touch immigration, which exacerbates everything. I argued with a Sierra Club member when she came to my door. I said, "I like your group" (i really don't) "but until you talk about immigration and the Mexicans everywhere, I cannot support you."
Nose-ringed college girl whispered, "I know, I hate it too" I feel there's a seriuos chance among these people, too
2003-08-25 20:20 | User Profile
on Friday nite, my wife & I were eating at a restaurant when the girl complained about living in another city. "The...well....minorities were really hostile to us there. I'm not prejudiced or anything but"
I interrupted her and said, "I am. They are out of control." She looked surprised, then told me more.
Lots of people are looking for the "o.k." to say what they think. She probably had that feeling but held back from others b/c she thought she'd get chastised. i see this all the time.
-Jay
2003-08-25 20:22 | User Profile
Somebody send Mel Gibson a copy of Camp of the Saints...
2003-08-26 03:09 | User Profile
If I were paranoid, Iââ¬â¢d guess that overpopulation stopped being a problem once white birthrates dropped below replacement levels.
My thoughts exactly.
**Somebody send Mel Gibson a copy of Camp of the Saints... **
I think my awakening began when I read the favorable review of CAMP OF THE SAINTS that was printed in NATIONAL REVIEW when the English translation was first published here. That's right, NATIONAL REVIEW. It was a different magazine back then. Anyways, I found the book in the library, and after reading it found that the world seemed to be a changed place. At least, my understanding of it had changed.
I wonder if you can still find CAMP OF THE SAINTS in public libraries?
2003-08-26 03:30 | User Profile
Blade Runner actually predicted an overpopulated, miscegenated future where the teeming multitudes spoke a bizarre Hispanic/Chinese patois...
Which Black comedian noted ominously that there were few, if any Negroes in the futures depicted in Sci-Fi films? :afro:
2003-08-26 03:32 | User Profile
**Lots of people are looking for the "o.k." to say what they think. ** Yes, and -- though I know it doesn't apply to Missouri by itself -- I think it's important to emphasize that it is wrong to use the term minority to refer to nonwhites because whites are a minority in this world ... and in Texas .. and in California ... etc. Pointing out that we are outnumbered sems to make people stop and think.
2003-08-26 15:09 | User Profile
*Originally posted by mwdallas@Aug 25 2003, 21:32 * ** Yes, and -- though I know it doesn't apply to Missouri by itself -- I think it's important to emphasize that it is wrong to use the term minority to refer to nonwhites because whites are a minority in this world ... and in Texas .. and in California ... etc. Pointing out that we are outnumbered sems to make people stop and think. **
Yep, I've heard so many times "Hey Jay, that's all going on in California."
I keep telling them that it isn't, and that they're moving to Iowa, WI, Ohio. It's ridiculous. People I know are waking up big time (tho they still don't like the J-wish question)
-Jay