Didier Raoult is a French microbiologist who has revolutionized the study of biology to the point where new rising stars like Idriss Aberkane call his research post-Darwinian.
The man is a scientific powerhouse.
Among his capital notions, he advanced the innovative idea that evolution is not necessarily spurred onward by natural selection alone. Doctor Raoult believes viruses are the key to understanding molecular change at DNA and RNA levels.
This is uncharted territory. And as always, science advances not only in small increments but also in huge leaps.
This looks to be one of those leaps forward.
Furthermore, when asked the question of what the future might hold for the human race, Raoult mentioned the fact that all life forms have a beginning and an end.
Regrettably so, but also true. We also know this since it is self-evident that everything has an alpha and an omega: everything.
On that note, he postulated another hard to digest truth.
99.99% of all urban conurbations on Earth have disappeared or been overcome by natural or man-made phenomena.
In other words, if you are a city-dweller, sooner or later, your locality will be no more.
And when you think of it, it is utterly so.
Even those locales like Jericho, Varna and many others that are still inhabited today, after millennia of human habitation, have not been so for the entirety of their material existence.
Currently, there are almost no cities on Earth exhibiting a perpetually uniform and linear, uninterrupted material and social existence.
That means that sometime in their past, perhaps more than once, barbarians, fire, famine, war, pestilence, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, meteorites, sandstorms, floods, or Acts of God, have contrived to end human habitation for a short or a long while, or until this day and age.
This is an amazing revelation or at least one we give almost no thought.
It also signifies that if you know this to be true and it is goddamn true and real as reality can be, you have to do something about it.
In our day and age, nuclear war is a distinct possibility.
Fleeing is not an option. It is the ONLY option.
Pick a country that is outside the prevailing wind patterns. Go there with time to spare before the bombs drop.
For me it’s an easy choice. Pick a nice piece of arable land, irrigated by running clean water coming from a mountain, delineated or surrounded by majestic wild forests, make it into a farm, raise chickens, pigs, cows, sheep and horses.
Be self-sufficient.
And when you have become an island of prosperity that is both self-sustaining and safe, call your kin and friends to share in God’s bounty.
Cities are death traps, have always been so, will always continue to be.
They are not sustainable from within during anything but prosperous peace time.
All it takes is for the power to drop, and you’ll have food riots, blood in the streets, disorder, mayhem, and finally the rise of a new power structure that is meant to make the urbanites feel safe.
But that power structure, that hierarchy usually preys on the weak to feed the strong.
Just like in nature, but more brutal and with zero chances afforded to those who want to opt out.
Listen, if you live in a city, and the War starts, electrical power and power will both go out. When they do, it will be each man for himself. Feminism, equality of outcome, racism, PC, minorities’ rights, all that stuff will be out the window. Who knows, perhaps the culture wars were meant to foster and bring about the WAR to end all wars. Who knows?! Talk about a master reset, eh.
Fighting won’t save you. In the medium term, you won’t survive. Over the long haul, you’re still going to have to move to a locale where you can produce your own food, that won’t be stolen by the local potentate, because there will only be one local potentate: and that’s You.
But all this cannot happen in a city of 10, 1 million or even 100,000 people.
It might happen in a city of 50,000 people whereby everyone has a small plot of land, and everybody works from dawn till dusk, and they barter for everything.
Work will be the currency as it has always been.
And as always, the cities will wither and die, because they are not sustainable outside the best economic circumstances. And when they do, they will be replaced or devolve into rural areas, farms, homesteads, rustic nuclei built around a manor, where a strong man will emerge to protect the working hands against the depredations of roving bandits unwilling to work for their keep.
This is a story as old as man.
And this is how it’s been before and will be again.
In the meantime, I will leave you to a nice little movie trailer made by our ‘friend’ AI. In case irony is a lost art, I was ironic, and I hope you all realize AI is not your buddy. It is meant to replace your minds, your bodies, and soon people.
Götterdämmerung 