Arthur St. Antoine, "Asphalt Jungle" (editorial) in Motor Trend, 04/18/2008 (Friday)
http://blogs.motortrend.com/6245781/editorials/is-the-earth-producing-more-oil/index.html
Brazils' deep-ocean Sugar Loaf of 33-billion bbls cannot possibly originate as fossil residues. Nor can Russia's 40,000-foot drill-shafts (42,350 ft. = eight miles). If petrochemicals ooze up as hydrocarbons, converted to "fossil fuel" deposits by abiogenic action under geophysical heat and pressure, oil becomes an eco-friendly renewable resource and whacked-out Greenies must bark their tarnation bow-wows elsewhere.
Over-population, crop failures, resource depletion; air-and-water contamination, anthropogenic global warming (AGW), mutating plagues-- Gaia runs a fever, life is a disease. What must we do to be saved? Chant mantras, kiss my ring, send money, says Al Gore. Fifty years of such tripe, and we haven't cited Nuclear Power yet.
Pysch tests akin to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personlity Profile (MMPP) dating from the 1950s are beginning to predict "leftist" tendencies based on parentage (functional two-parent --father and mother-- households) , narcissism ("compensatory self-esteem" deriving not from material deprivation but its spoiled-brat opposite, instant gratification where nothing is ever enough); and temperament, defined as Optimism regarding potential self-fulfillment vs. Pessimism that projects one's personal sense of failure and unworthiness onto others, transferred for safety's sake into public/political domains.
In other words, extreme partisan proclivities are "built in", innate, irrational symptoms of deep-seated personality traits. "Robber barons" sublimate ambitions constructively (cf: "Edifice complex"); others less talented default en masse to "rob Peter" principles, claiming entitlements --something for nothing-- rather than admit themselves incapable of ordering their own destinies.
Circumstances, people change... but suppose that by First Grade, psych-testing revealed with 95% probability where a subject's partisan leanings lay. Would productive sectors move in self-defense to winnow that chaff, or stand passively aside awaiting legions of new tapeworms prepared to smash-and-grab anything and everything worthwhile?
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Functional two-parent families are not "built-in" to anyone's genes, so they are not innate. Families cause positive or negative personality traits depending on individual character. Some children are inspired to succeed; others collapse into passivity or become actively negative.
History is replete with cases of individuals rising from abject circumstances to the highest prominence. John D. Rockefeller grew up on a hard-scrabble farm in up-state New York, yet he founded Standard Oil and became the richest man in the world. Closer to home we see our estimable Cousin Michael. Michael himself calls his family "a disaster;" yet he won a Motion Picture Academy Award. Alternatively, billionaires like the Hearsts produce children who aren't fit to scrub the floor.
The idea of a political elite interpreting children's test results to conduct a program of "social" eugenics is outrageous. Imagine a car pulling up to your house filled with armed men. "Your child flunked. He must die. Hand him over."
No doubt Prythroes speaks ironically, for that is the kind of "final solution" we expect to hear from leftist tyrants. Recall Bill Clinton's outright murder of 85 Branch Davidians in Texas, and his thuggish deportation of Elian Gonzolez back to Communist Cuba.
Conferring any such power is not just destructive of freedom, but arguably the end of civilization. The true solution is honest education. The state may prosecute only for deeds, never for thoughts or words.
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