There's always one...

...or in my case, usually quite a few, who don't understand what I'm actually getting at.

Usually at Atma it takes people one or two sessions to figure out how the "Sita-pati provocative dialectic" works.

Here's the purport to yesterday's post, Sprouting Seeds, Spiralling Violence, for all those who didn't get the point and are offended by my "racist statements" about the Indonesians and Chinese. Remember, you can always leave a comment, or send me an email.

Here's the definition of "feral" [from wikipedia]: "A feral organism is one that has escaped from domestication and returned, partly or wholly, to its wild state."

Breakdown of social systems will cause humans to revert to wild ("feral") state

Once the Indonesian islands are submerged significantly by rising tides caused by global warming, the Indonesians are going to experience huge population pressure and the disruption of their economy and agriculture. A likely result of this is the breakdown of their economic and political systems - in other words, meltdown. It won't take long from there for people to start starving and for the population to go feral.

[Note: that description, technically accurate, was the contribution of a doctor who participated in the conversation at Atma. I know that in the Ocker vernacular the word "feral" is used to refer to "people that you don't like", but that's not what it means to 90% of English speakers]

If Australia expends military energy right now (which it does) repelling people attempting to flee from Indonesia to Australia, imagine what is going to happen then. It will be a full-scale, no excuses invasion.

I also mentioned feral humans in the article, but I notice that no-one has taken offense at that. Once we experience the breakdown of our economic and political structures, large segments of the human race will go feral. If you read yesterday's ISKCON News.com article Natural Born Survivors you'll see one expert predict the death of 5 out of 6 humans worldwide in the meltdown. Many of those will die fighting over food, like wild animals.

Nuking the Chinese - ironically, the most sensible thing for meat eaters to do

My call to nuke the Chinese is an ironic device. Unfortunately, it is actually the most sane thing to do given our current situation, which is an indication of how insane our current situation is. With the consumption of the Chinese rising to meet Australian standards the global economic and environmental situation is untenable. The only result of this can be the inevitable clash of the Americans and the Australians with the Chinese, and the Indians, and the Russians, and the Africans, and every other group who wants to live like we do.

Unless the Australians and Americans reduce their consumption and model a more responsible sustainable lifestyle, war with the Chinese, eventually an overt military one, caused by an economic one over the dwindling resources, is the near future of the human race.

If we are unwilling to reduce consumption then we should man up and launch a preemptive strike now.

The alternative - "go vego"

Of course my position is that we should reduce consumption by becoming vegetarian. Most people will disagree with nuking the Chinese, and the article plays on that to show the irony of what's going on. If we don't reduce consumption, nuking them is the most logical and sane thing to do. Some people will think that is abhorrent, but what about the millions of tons of animals that are being slaughtered each year? That's also abhorrent.

Being lukewarm is a cop out. Why stop at killing millions of animals? If you are going to be a killer, then you should be logical about it and kill the Chinese before they kill you. Otherwise, if you do find that idea abhorrent, then take a look at the logical consequences of where this meat-eating is taking us. The Mahabharata tells us: "There is not enough gold, grains, or women in the world to satisfy the desire of one man" - what to speak of one billion Chinese, plus 400 million Americans, plus 20 million Australians plus the rest of the world.

Our irresponsibility in failing to set an example of responsible, sustainable consumption is leading the world to war over dwindling resources, and ecological and environmental disaster. Face up to it. If we don't become vegetarian now, we should drop a nuke on China. It's the only way to make our current diet and lifestyle sustainable.

So stop being so irresponsible: either push the red button, or give up the red meat.

Props to Pandu das, whose post "Scientific Proof that meat-eating leads to war" was an inspiration for this dinner table "shock preaching" tactic.

The third of the four secondary objectives of ISKCON given in Srila Prabhupada's 1966 Constitution: "To popularize the vegetable-grain diet under approved methods in order that full value of protein, carbohydrate, fat and vitamin benefit may be derived therefrom."