"You don't have to be Mother Theresa to avoid being an asshole."

[Festivito]

91. I hear ya. But, do they have a point?

We have too many people on the planet. We have polluted every ocean, river, lake, stream and spring. And, if we haven't, we are moving to do so.

I am suggesting that part of this right-wing assholery reflects fear of what too many people will mean to our planet and its ability to support human life. This brings a race for power, no holds barred. An old paradigm of better to let nine guilty free than let one unjustly die -- reverses. Let the weak and needy die.

I don't like their solution, but I try to understand it. Personally, I think we're smart enough as a whole to find solution to our world wide problems. However, that is a matter of my own faith in humanity. Perhaps an outcropping of my faith in a God.

So, I do not like their callousness either, their no hold barred lack of empathy that can catapult them to become a controlling empowered elite. Or, so they think. Because, when our planet's ability to support human life falls apart, who will survive the best?

The rich will try to ride it out with themselves on top. The strong will try to take control for themselves. The intellectuals will try to think it through to some best thought solution. And, the fight between them all will make them all look like assholes.

The result might well look like a Mother Theresa solution. Overly pragmatic solution to an overly simplified goal. Really, angering the superiority complex laden detractors sure that their solution was the right one and should have been incorporated into the goal they think we should achieve.