THE SEVENTH ENEMY
The
Human Factor in the Global Crisis
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| What happened to Ronald Higgins? Did anybody take any notice? |
A Voice in the Wilderness
The Seventh Enemy is the definitive ‘Green
Bible’. If you want to understand Green
politics, read this book and try to see the film. Ronald Higgins wrote it in 1978, and the BBC
made a film about it in 1979. Their
‘Everyman’ series produced a gem. It entranced
viewers so much; they did not want it to end.
Many went out and bought the book, and they probably joined Greenpeace,
Friends of the Earth, and the Ecology Party1.
The Seventh Enemy concept was ambitious; it
attempted to show us how to save the world.
It identified six ‘enemies’ which threatened our survival:
1)
Population Explosion
2)
Food Crisis
3)
Resource Scarcity
4)
Environmental
Degradation
5)
Nuclear Abuse
6)
Science and Technology
Unleashed
Then it added the seventh ‘enemy’, which it called
The Human Factor; Political Inertia and Individual Blindness were preventing us
from overcoming the other six threats.
Higgins was a prophet, but he was not all gloom
and doom; he was not a ‘drama-queen’. He
explained how to overcome The Human Factor with ‘An Inclusive
Sensibility’. He pointed at seven
‘lamps’, which would light the way:
1)
Rational Fear
2)
Self Awareness
3)
Visionary Awareness
4)
The Revaluation of the
Feminine
5)
A Welcome to Tensions
6)
The Ethic of
Consciousness
7)
A Reawakening to the
Religious
This is not a review or a synopsis. The Seventh Enemy is a complex concept and it
contains a myriad of inspirational ideas.
Here we shall ponder just three topics: ‘The Population Explosion’, ‘The
Food Crisis’, and ‘The Revaluation of the Feminine’. A soupçon
of irony has been infused for bad taste.
The Population Explosion
Higgins outlined the history of
the world’s population growth. He said: ‘By the time of Christ it was probably about
300 million. By 1850 there was 1.3
billion of us. By 1900 there were nearly
1.7 billion. By 1950 there were 2.5
billion. By 1975 there were 4 billion.’ He added: ‘A world population growth rate of two per cent a year may sound
modest until one realises this could double our numbers in thirty-six years.’
His prediction was too close for
comfort. Today’s world population amounts
to over 7.3 billion, and it is rising.
People on Earth are like maggots crawling over a corpse which is decaying
rapidly. No conventional wisdom can stop
that trend, but one or more of the other creeping threats will eventually stop it. The least likely dooms-day scenario is a
catastrophic nuclear war, which would probably decimate the world’s population
with fire and radiation. The survivors
would hate the smell of ozone in the morning.
We may count our blessings because our political leaders have not yet been
stupid enough to let that happen.
Higgins said: ‘Many governments are frankly pro-natalist –
they positively want enlarged populations.’
He was correct. Overcrowded Britain
continually gets more people stuffed into it.
Our governments pay parents to have more children, and they leave Britain ’s
borders open to all kinds of mass immigration.
Britain ’s
short-sighted economic policies demand ever increasing populations so that
capitalists can take advantage of ever increasing economies of scale. That kind of inflation continues until the
bubble bursts, and then the ‘plebs2’ are told to mop-up the mess.
Most British political parties
want to swell Britain ’s
population with unlimited immigration.
They refuse to talk about it, so we may assume they want billions ad infinitum. They plan to make room for them alongside Britain ’s natives by concreting-over Britain ’s
countryside. They want to build sky-scraping,
multi-storied, blocks of flats3, on a grid-pattern, which will span
the land from coast to coast. Towns will
be numbered; streets will be numbered; doors will be numbered.
When the civil engineers have finished
re-constructing the surface, they will start burrowing underground. Happy, multicultural, plebs will dwell in subterranean,
tenement-bunkers, which can actually be previewed in that old Expressionist film:
‘Metropolis4’.
More foreign plebs could be
accommodated if the native plebs could be forced to share their houses as well
as their country. Mixed plebs could
work, rest, and play to a rota; they would simply clock-in and clock-out of
their factories, houses, and shops. Sleep
could be rationed to eight hours so that three plebs could use the same bed. It is not a new idea; plebs could be tagged, ‘chipped’,
or bar-coded; those kinds of systems would completely regulate their lives and deter them from squabbling with one another.
Our ruling elite will not
concern themselves with any of that; they will live in secure ‘gated
communities’ which will keep out the riffraff.
The Food Crisis
Higgins said: ‘Ours is not just a world of hunger but of
unnecessary hunger. There is sufficient
food to sustain all four billion of us.’
He added: ‘About a third of the world’s cereals are fed to Northern
livestock. So is a quarter of its fish
catch. So is much of our powdered milk.’ He persisted: ‘Britain
Higgins explained: ‘The essential point is that greater food
production need make little difference to the famished. Millions in the South simply cannot afford
what they need.’ That is still true,
but we can now add millions in the north who cannot afford the best food that
money can buy. The quality of food is decreasing
while the price is increasing. Many of Britain ’s
pampered cats and dogs eat better food than the grub that British plebs can
afford. Plebs are not given much
choice. Fast-food outlets like
MuckDonald’s churn out buckets of bland, ‘no frills’ swill, made from the
cheapest ingredients; their menus include all sorts of offal, ‘filler’, and
chemical mixtures. The vegetarian diet
really is becoming the healthier, cheaper, and tastier alternative.
Politicians, who represent the
ruling 1%, try to convince the rest of us that the answers are factory-farming,
genetically modified foods, and poisoned crops6. Variant processed slops from tubes, or
hydroponic drip-feeds might provide answers in the future. Our ruling elite do not concern themselves
with any of that; they eat clean fresh food, which is organically reared or
grown.
Higgins said: ‘Carried far, this must amount to a
willingness to use starvation as an instrument of economic policy; as a tool
indeed for seeing to it that the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor.’ The European Union still hoards ‘mountains’
of food and ‘lakes’ of drink. Those
reserves allow it to dump cheap produce on the world market whenever excluded countries
try to compete with its exports. The EU also
uses food-aid as a weapon in its offensive foreign policies; sanctions and restrictions
are always being applied somewhere to discipline needy and starving people.
That has always beenBritain ’s normal domestic policy. Rationing never ended; if plebs have just
enough cash for a pint7, some fags8, and a flutter9,
they are content to be poor; they think to themselves: ‘Things could be worse;
look at those starving Africans.’
That has always been
According to the Trussell Trust,
which runs the country’s largest network of food banks, ‘13 million people live
below the poverty line in the UK .’ During the year 2013-2014, over one million
people relied on food parcels; a third of them were children.
The Trussell Trust’s All Party
Group for Poverty and Hunger, with the support of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
has reported that: ‘Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of perfectly edible food
which is euphemistically termed “surplus”, is destroyed at a substantial cost,
when it, alone, could eliminate hunger in our society.’
Here are some figures which have been provided by The World Hunger Education Service.
The number of hungry people in the world has been significantly reduced during the last thirty five years by 42%. 805 million people, or one in nine, still suffer from chronic undernourishment.
Hunger is worst inSouthern
Asia (525.6 million) and Sub-Saharan Africa (214 million).
Poor nutrition causes nearly half of deaths in children under five (3.1 million) each year. Every ten seconds, a child dies from hunger related diseases; that is 8,500 children per day.
Those are mind-boggling statistics, but that is supposed to be ‘the good news’. The bad news is, according to the World Food Programme, the world still produces enough food to feed everyone.
The number of hungry people in the world has been significantly reduced during the last thirty five years by 42%. 805 million people, or one in nine, still suffer from chronic undernourishment.
Hunger is worst in
Poor nutrition causes nearly half of deaths in children under five (3.1 million) each year. Every ten seconds, a child dies from hunger related diseases; that is 8,500 children per day.
Those are mind-boggling statistics, but that is supposed to be ‘the good news’. The bad news is, according to the World Food Programme, the world still produces enough food to feed everyone.
The Revaluation of the Feminine
Sixty percent of the world’s hungry are women. The Hunger Project believes that women
could be the key agents of change. They
must be given the chance, so they must be empowered and supported.
Higgins said: ‘... something of the maternal orientation
may be essential if we are to counter the masculine rape of nature and
patriarchy’s indifference to intimacy...’ He was not suggesting a total inversion of roles. The Queen Bee and her retinue of drones are just as unbalanced as the rampant lion and his pride of females.
Men are allowed to remain childlike. They just pretend to grow up, and they act paternally; that is why many of them beget children and then run away. Women are really forced to grow up; they get pregnant and through that rite of passage they get transformed into adults.
Mother Nature suffers like women all over the world; she gets things done to her against her will. Rabid feminists scream: ‘All men are rapists!’ That is true, figuratively speaking. Men have always used their physical strength to get what they want. They know that might is not always right but they do not care about that because it usually gets results.
Men are allowed to remain childlike. They just pretend to grow up, and they act paternally; that is why many of them beget children and then run away. Women are really forced to grow up; they get pregnant and through that rite of passage they get transformed into adults.
Mother Nature suffers like women all over the world; she gets things done to her against her will. Rabid feminists scream: ‘All men are rapists!’ That is true, figuratively speaking. Men have always used their physical strength to get what they want. They know that might is not always right but they do not care about that because it usually gets results.
Higgins explained his premise: ‘The maternal orientation gives women
(typically, not invariably) a particular feeling for nature and the organic –
perhaps also for place.’ Women are not from Venus and men
are not from Mars but men behave more like aliens. Women understand the Earth better than men do
because they function in harmony with it. They instinctively understand order; they want
a place for everything and they want everything in its place. Most women expect their men to go out to work
and earn a wage, while they expect to stay at home with their new born babies.
Higgins said: ‘Women probably therefore invented
agriculture where the cyclical, seasonal patterns of seed-sowing, growth and
harvest mirrored their own rhythms of fertility and reproduction.’ Women probably did invent agriculture because
they got sick of being chased around fields and then inseminated by delusional men
who thought they were bulls or stallions.
Husbandry is a conceited male invention.
The assumption that a woman is just another farm animal that may be
worth two cows, or four goats, or eight chickens is anachronistic in our supposed
age of reason. The value of women may be
properly estimated by observing their ability to adapt, survive, and flourish underneath
such grotesque chauvinism.
Women are not free because they
are still defined by men. Black men call
women, bitches and whores. Our pandering society excuses that kind of profanity; it appreciates vulgar multicultural idioms and motifs. We can designate it post-feminist art, but we know it is really just persistent deep-seated misogyny. Society allows
it and respects it by designating it a modern art form or vulgar multicultural
idiom. Most women yield to it; they want
to be regarded as sex objects. They act
the part; they wear the costumes; they talk the trashy vernacular language; they
stick around like putty in men’s hands.
The ‘trophy wife’ as paraded in
the TV series ‘Real Housewives’ is another male creation. In that fantasy world, women aspire to become
the possessions or accessories of rich men.
They submit to plastic surgery and, no doubt, they succumb to drugs;
their lives imitate those in that other great work of fiction: ‘The Valley of
the Dolls10’.
Man made religions denigrate
women. Everyone knows that religion is
just primitive superstitious nonsense, yet corrupt and hypocritical British
politicians have extended the blasphemy laws; those now include ‘Religious Hatred’. Zealots are now allowed to
abuse women with the full protection of the law. Women will only be able to escape from that
living-hell when they are allowed to cast off their religious bondage gear: rings
and veils.
Those are just some examples of distorted
reality which ought to be corrected, but does anyone want to do it? People have been shaped to fit into this
warped world. They cannot imagine an
alternative reality; it would cause
acute cognitive dissonance, blurred vision, and severe headaches.
Higgins said: ‘... the masculine and the feminine must be harmoniously combined to fashion an undistorted view of reality.’ Yes, he was talking about Yin and Yang but without the Taoist mystical explanation and ‘pearls of wisdom’. Masculinity and femininity have become separated and therefore detached from reality. They need to be reunited so that they will complement each other. Men and women will not have to engage in the ‘battle of the sexes’ or ‘gender-politics’because they will be identified as people.
Human development in Britain
was arrested once before. Vandals and
Barbarians wrecked the Roman Empire across Europe, and their disruption
extinguished the relatively civilised era of Pax Romana in Britain . It was followed by one thousand years of backwardness,
which became known as the middle-ages, or more accurately, the dark-ages. Not much is known about that period of
history because nothing much happened, and nothing much changed, and the
authorities made sure the plebs remained ignorant. The stagnation ended in the fifteenth century
with the Renaissance, but a whole millennium was wasted. If western civilization had not been held-back
by superstitious religions and hypocritical politicians, it might have landed a
rocket on the moon one thousand years earlier.
Natalie Bennett (Greens), Nicola
Sturgeon (SNP), and Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru) are the three female agents of
change in this 2015 general election.
They are demonstrating the value of femininity in British politics. They are different from ‘man-made’ female politicians
who represent other parties; their ideas are original, they answer questions,
and they say what they mean and they mean what they say.
They are up against a Tory-Labour-Liberal
ménage à trois. Cameron, Miliband, and Clegg are not the ‘Last
of the Summer Wine11’; they are the kitchen-sink soap-stars of real-life
domestic tragedies. Those
double-dealing, second-rate, shysters will do nothing about the population
explosion, the food crisis, or women’s liberation, but many British plebs will continue
to vote for them.
Natalie Bennett will finish this
campaign with a clear conscience. She is
right to keep ‘banging on’ about climate change. It is likely to cause more poverty and
hunger. Farmers will struggle to adapt
to increasingly frequent droughts and floods.
They will have to adopt new methods and practices. As more British plebs become hungry, more of
them will listen to the Green message.
Poverty remains the principal
cause of hunger. People remain poor
because they lack resources; the wealth gap between north and south is as wide
as ever; ‘west versus east’ power-struggles continue to disrupt the development
of southern regions.
The Green Party must return to its roots. It must insist that Britain takes measures to reduce its population. Couples must be encouraged to have fewer children. All immigration must cease. All immigrants and their descendents who have settled in Britain since the Second World War must be returned to their countries of origin. All bogus refugees and bogus asylum-seekers must be deported.
Higgins said: ‘Mankind’s
nightmare may literally foreshadow a rebirth.
Fundamental change only occurs in and through individuals. Perhaps some of those who are thought today’s
eccentrics or cranks, heretics or outcasts, may yet guide us through the
maelstrom and fashion a safer more durable if always imperfect, post-catastrophic
society beyond it. Meanwhile, even the
‘Cassandras’ have their role. Cassandra
was not shunned because her prophecies turned out to be wrong but because they
proved right.’
Ronald Higgins is still
active. Green Swipe has written to the
BBC, and it has asked them to produce a follow-up programme. They are considering it.
WINDUP
Notes:
1) The Ecology Party was the
original name of the British Green Party.
2) The word ‘pleb’ is an abbreviation
of plebeian. British Conservative
politicians use it to describe common people.
3) Flats are self-contained
lodgings or apartments.
4) Metropolis is a science-fiction film which was
directed by Fritz Lang in 1927.
5) RSPCA - Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
6) Herbicides and pesticides
7) Beer
8) Cigarettes
9) Bet
10) The Valley of the Dolls is a classic
American novel by Jacquelline Susann.
11) The Last of the Summer Wine was a long running British TV comedy series. Its most popular characters were Foggy, Compo, and Clegg.
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