POLITICAL BIOLOGY

IMPORTANT QUOTES ARE IN RED

NO RIGHTS WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITIES

This lecture is going to deal with some basic realities. It is going to talk about the fundamentals of political theory, going back to the beginning of time. The fundamental basis of political theory is to protect the biological foundations of life. That is, the fundamental principle of political theory. Now, in our time, and starting with the so-called modern era in the 18th century in Europe, you have a lot of talk about rights: human rights; a right to this; a right to that. We need to stop and think. There are no rights without responsibilities. Even the people who wrote the American Constitution saw the basics of that. You cannot have rights without responsibilities.

A COMPLETE NEGLECT FOR THE BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LIFE

In our time, there is this maniacal focus on rights. There is a total and complete neglect of the responsibility to protect the biological foundations of life. Indeed, the structure of the modern world as it has evolved from places like England in the 19th century, has been a wholesale attack on the biological foundations of life, backed up by a lot of delusions, of both the political and the religious variety. Indeed, in America, some of the most vociferous opponents of sane measures to protect the biological foundations of life come from the Christian Evangelical community, and the Catholic community. So there are fundamental problems there. We're not saying all Christians are bad; we're not saying all Catholics are bad; we're not saying all evangelicals are bad. We don't want to state that. But, there are fundamental problems in the leadership of these communities.

Now when you look at the structure of today's world, this is not a benevolent system, okay. This is a system that has set in motion the sixth-greatest extinction of other forms of life in the history of our planet. That is what this is.

TODAY'S WORLD ORDER IS ON THE PATH TO SUICIDE

Now, this is a road to suicide. It's a road to self-destruction. Now, to make it very clear: nature is most definitely not going to be destroyed. People are going to destroy themselves, and probably experts disagree, but a hundred thousand, maybe 200,000 years will be needed to clean up the mess. Which is a very, very small amount of time in terms of the history of the world, which is in the billions of years. The dinosaurs were here for 65 million years, so I mean this is a very, very, very short period of time to clean up the human mess, and the very, very short time human beings as a species have existed on this planet. Anthropologists suggest about 40,000 years, it could be longer than that, who knows. But that's a miniscule amount of time.

FOCUSING ON THE NUMBER ONE AGENDA:

THE BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LIFE ON THE PLANET

There's a disconnect between the miniscule amount of time, and the level of delusion and arrogance of human leaders. So, we can't go on and on about rights. What we have to talk about is responsibilities and the reassertion of those responsibilities as we have defined on our website, with publications such as building a sustainable future of the actions that need to be taken. If those actions are not taken, nature is going to solve problems for people. That's just the basic situation. So, we can't have this excessive infatuation with rights. This was similar to what happened in the Roman Republic, where when the plutocrats seized control of the Roman political system, the whole system failed. And endless efforts to preserve human rights - people like Cicero, so on - were basically a study in self-destruction, which led to ever-unfolding levels of carnage, because there were no rights to defend, because the responsibilities of society were collapsing.

So, again, we need to get back to responsibilities, and that needs to be the number one agenda politically for our planet. There needs to be strong leadership at the highest levels of government, and other influential parts. That's the point. Without that, there is not a future.