The Gates/Zuckerberg Syndrome
(Note: The following short essay is an excerpt from a broader document titled, ‘The Ideological Epoch and the Dynamics of a Meltdown’, a link to which is provided at the end of the piece).
“We will attempt to rid the world of all disease within our child’s lifetime.”
(Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan)
“Bill Gates says innovation spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic will help eradicate global disease.”
(CBC news report…Feb 27, 2021)
Back in the prologue the phrase ‘perilously irrational blind spot’ was used to describe hyper-man’s inability to deal with the issue of nature’s need to ‘correct’ or cull human populations. The blind spot was an unfortunate by-product of the agricultural revolution, which simultaneously triggered the ideological epoch…the age of ideas. One of the most pernicious of those (synthetic) ideas was that advanced modern humans somehow occupied a select and exclusive sphere above the rest of nature (see ‘crown of creation’) …that man’s laws were superior to nature’s laws. This foolish and fateful notion drove a wedge between advanced humans and nature. It would eventually prove to be their undoing and lead to the collapse of super-human system.
Some ideas can be quite benign…while others can easily shape-shift into beliefs and then on into truths. But the danger with this process is that the original idea that the so-called ‘truth’ was based upon may itself not be grounded in reality. Cited earlier was the ‘flat earth’ concept and the belief in Ptolemy’s geo-centric universe. These were ideas conjured up in the minds of earlier civilizations and were based upon a very limited and skewed perspective of the cosmos. The idea of man’s preordained dominion over nature was itself a synthetic construct arrived at through the same process. As the concept of superiority began to evolve and take root – in lock-step with the agricultural revolution – so too did the blind spot.
There are really only two camps, two positions that can be held regarding the extremely dangerous and long-fomenting conflict between super-humans and nature. There is no middle ground. One either subscribes to the position that nature and its laws are the ultimate authority when it comes to biospheric management – or – that hyper-man holds that authority. The former camp sees humans as a small but integral part of a much greater whole while the latter sees humans as the controllers, the subjugators and rightful conquerors of nature. The former understands that nature – in accordance with an ancient and universal code of laws and principles – must occasionally, and out of necessity, ‘correct’ the human population (as with all species populations) in order to maintain some semblance of balance within the greater system. The latter, who recklessly believe themselves and their laws to be superior, will flaunt and ignore the universality of nature’s laws. Nature dictates a species cull and super-humans will have no part of it. And this ominous tussle has been building, exponentially and inexorably, for thousands of years.
“We must allow nature to do its ‘work’…we absolutely must. As repugnant and unpalatable as it may be to some, the out-of-control and exponentially-driven human population has become an infestation, a blight upon the Earth that urgently requires a long, long overdue correction. And the cumulative effect of delaying and avoiding this necessary and natural process (a cull) for so long is that humanity (along with most other life forms) now faces the ever-growing prospect of extinction.”
There is a mentality that exists today on Planet Earth – chiefly within the domain of advanced science, technology, medicine and religion – which is hell-bent on preventing nature from doing its ‘work’. This mentality, being a direct off-shoot of the blind spot (and the idea of superiority that created it) was then, and still is today, predominately an elitist and religious-driven ideology whose self-mandated objective is to ensure that (at all costs) the human population is not subjected to a natural correction…a natural cull. And for the past seven millennia this mentality has been busy attempting, with whatever means available at the time, to shut nature out of the super-human population dynamic.
The invention of agriculture triggered the exponential growth of human populations (see Chapter One) and in only seven thousand years (since agriculture became a force unto its own) the global human population has exploded from a comfortable 5-6 million (pre-ag) to a completely unsustainable 8 billion (and heading towards 10-11 billion). And one of the leading engines – if not the leading engine – driving this unfolding disaster is hyper-man’s deranged mentality which dictates that nobody should get sick, that nobody should die…that every virus, every plague, bug, germ and disease must be ‘snuffed out’ without a single man, woman or child perishing.
Sheer madness…from a purely nature-centric point of view.
This brings us to the above Zuckerberg quote and the Gates news clip. Goodness, where does one begin. It is virtually impossible to imagine a more absurd or irresponsible statement than to suggest that we super-humans have the right, authority or should even attempt to eradicate all disease within the twenty-first century…or any century for that matter. It absolutely flies in the face of nature’s irrefutable, time-enduring laws as well as the universal principles that have governed all biological life on this planet since the beginning. What in the hell were they thinking??? Have we not done enough damage already interfering and meddling with nature’s finely tuned balancing act. Have we not done enough damage already aiding and abetting the lethal over-population of our sub-species (and our livestock). Duh.
The population of this hyper-human blight needs a drastic reduction…not an increase. In 1970 our population was around four billion…today it sits at 8 billion. In only a few decades we, as a progressive, hyper-ideological and highly mechanized/industrialized civilization have wiped out 50% of the world’s wild life and 70% of all aquatic life in the oceans….in a mere 46 years. Do the math. If that much damage can be done in only 46 years with a population base of between 4-8 billion, how much damage will be inflicted during the remainder of the 21st century with a projected population base of 8-11 billion?
Whether they realize it or not Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Gates have finally put a human face on the madness and idiocy of the techno/industrial age. Whether they realize it or not, these two super-thinkers have become the representatives, the voices and the de facto ‘poster boys’ for an extremely backwards and aberrant mentality which embodies both the previously-mentioned ‘perilously irrational blind spot’ and the synthetic notion that super-humans can live by their own laws and disregard nature’s altogether. Whether they realize it or not Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have inadvertently coined a new term that can be added to the lexicon of western psychiatric medicine…a mental disorder that has been smoldering and quietly festering for thousands of years but has only now been identified and named…the ‘Gates/Zuckerberg Syndrome’…a disease of the hyper-ideological (and very delusional) super-mind.
The above quote and news clip provide a twenty-first century ‘measuring stick’ by which to gauge just how far super-humans have removed themselves from the natural world. And the dire implications contained within such a measurement compels one to look beyond the superficial sentiments of Zuckerberg’s quote (something having to do with his child’s lifetime) and instead probe the deeper and perhaps more nefarious motives behind Gate’s and Zuckerberg’s aggressive campaign to eradicate all disease.
The fields of investigative journalism and documentary film making have provided the general public with a fairly accurate picture of the corruption that permeates big-pharma, big-government, big-religion, big-banking and big-industry. One would therefore not be faulted for suspecting that a similar brand of corruption under-pins the Gates/Zuckerberg position as well. Of course many who share their philosophy, i.e., the elites, the corporations, the science/medical/pharmaceutical industries, the banks, the New World Order, etc. will rapturously applaud their ambitious campaign to rid the world of all disease within the next few decades.
But it begs the question; whose interests will be served by such an endeavor? Who will this campaign benefit and who will it harm? There is no doubt that such a campaign would harm our already crippled biosphere, the remaining forests, wildlife and fish, the poisoned air, the depleted fresh water reserves, the environment, etc.. In fact the health and welfare of the Earth itself and all of nature will be further placed in jeopardy. Why? Because eradicating all disease would be like adding ‘jet fuel’ to the already spiking exponential growth of human populations. Imagine it…. nobody gets sick, nobody dies from disease and we all just keep breeding and multiplying (and consuming). Talk about a doomsday scenario. The global livestock industry would accelerate its already criminal practice of clear-cutting the world’s remaining old growth forests to provide ‘flesh-foods’ and burgers to all the additional hungry humans who aren’t getting sick and who aren’t dying because disease has been wiped out… thanks to Mr Gates and Mr Zuckerberg (and their ilk).
The Agenda
And who would benefit the most from such an ‘eight-ball’ idea? In 1347 the Bubonic Plague struck Europe and decimated its population…100 million down to 50 million in only four or five years. The chaos that ensued was unprecedented up to that point in history…the whole system collapsed…the progressive machinery of western civilization ground to a halt. The under-trodden masses were hit the hardest being directly exposed to the human filth, the livestock waste and the vermin running through the streets of Europa. The elites were somewhat shielded within the walls of their castles and estates but were not shielded from the financial after-shock of the plague. The royal coffers, business profits, the labor force, the ‘consumer’ base and church tithes all but dried up and it took the next 100 years to return to some semblance of normalcy. So the monetary and financial systems of that period were hit where it hurt the most…in the pocketbook. (It should be added here that what was viewed as a horrendous and apocalyptic event to the Europeans was no doubt viewed as the best possible thing that could have happened….a ‘God-send’….by the rest of the natural world).
If a catastrophe the scale of the 1347 plague were to happen on the planet today, needless to say the world’s financial and social infrastructure would collapse…like a ‘house of cards’. If the human population was reduced by the same proportion, 50% (8 billion down to say 4 billion) it would be the same players; the elites, the church, the corporations, the industrial, technological and manufacturing sectors, the banks, the governments, the stock markets, (essentially the industrial state) that would bear the financial brunt of the ‘correction’…. and that’s not even considering the suffering, chaos, anarchy and the crime wave that would engulf the planet for centuries to come.
This may be a bit over-simplified but the global monetary system, including the multi-nationals, the manufacturing and retail sectors, the medical, high-tech and pharmaceutical industries, the petroleum, chemical, plastics and pesticide industries, the livestock, poultry and dairy industries, the alcohol, tobacco and fire-arms industries, the pre-packaged, junk food, fast-food and sugar industries, the transportation, auto, shipping and aircraft industries, the World Bank, the I.M.F., the Catholic Church and yes, even the mega-billion dollar social networking industry would lose half of their ‘consumer base’ over-night. In theory, they would have only half the number of people to sell their machines, their plastic products and latest electronic gizmos to. Their bottom lines and profit margins would go ‘south’ and most of the system would quickly flounder.
So, in terms of the close relationship between commerce, profit motive and population, would it not be in Mr Gate’s and Mr Zuckerberg’s (and the rest of the corporate/industrial state’s) best interests to keep as many of the world’s potential consumers alive and multiplying (and buying) by ridding the world of all disease?
The Collective Belief in a ‘Manufactured’ Truth
Some readers will likely be upset with this essay’s rather blunt approach to understanding the dynamics of a cull as a natural and very necessary part of a planet’s healthy life-cycle. Since way back at the beginning of the prologue and throughout the general text of the essay readers have been encouraged – even begged at times – to view this issue through the wide-angle lens of natural/scientific/biological/human history. It is only through an open and all-encompassing historical and biological perspective that any one is really going to ‘get’ this document. And that will require a monumental leap for many advanced modern hyper-ideological humans…most of whom will summarily reject such a view.
Imagine a catastrophic tsunami that has been building for thousands of years, feeding upon its own momentum and racing towards oblivion. The hyper-ideological age is that tsunami…the entire juggernaut was/is built upon ideas and as stated above, ideas (whether based upon reality or upon fiction) can quickly morph into beliefs and then on into truths. And this, in essence, is the nature of the dilemma that we hyper-humans have gotten ourselves into today on this planet.
Over millennia hyper-man has come to believe as truth the notion (religious and elitist at its core) that the human sub-species is somehow ‘special’, ‘chosen’ or perhaps ‘deified’, that it is our ‘God-given’ right, our ‘manifest destiny’ to conquer, tame, subjugate and exploit the Earth and all of nature for our exclusive benefit. And over time the elites have so thoroughly conditioned the masses with this self-serving construct that today they (the masses) go passively about their little day-to-day ‘doings’ without even questioning the validity of the ‘manufactured’ truth that has been fed to them since the dawn of western thinking. Being so locked into that kind of collective mind-set it is easy to see why the global elite structure, the New World order – which includes the Church and the rest of the industrial establishment – would be a bit upset when someone brings up such subjects as; humans preventing nature from doing its ‘work’ or the necessity of a long-overdue cull of the lethally over-populated human sub-species.
Dennis Lakusta
Nanaimo, BC
July 2021
For a link to the larger ‘meltdown’ essay….click here.