Just Start Bowing to Molech Openly – Agriculture Worse Than Infanticide?

Jared Diamond, the bestselling author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, wrote a paper back in 1987 stating that the worst mistake in the history of the human race. What is that mistake? Agriculture.


He argues the hunter-gatherer diet is better nutritionally, as agriculture tended to focus on a single crop, like potatoes. This led to deficiencies and over-reliance, which led to events like the potato famines in Ireland. Overall, he paints a very rosy picture of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and almost romanticizes it. This comes from a Marxist perspective (big surprise):


But it soon gets more interesting (or horrifying). He asks the question, if agriculture is so bad for us, why did we choose it?


So what should we have done instead? Well, infanticide is a good solution to the problem.

…nomadic hunter-gatherers have to keep their children spaced at four-year intervals by infanticide and other means.

And here is where Diamond’s (or any secularist’s) definition of evil comes into play:


To limit growth by infanticide is reasonable. To support a larger population via farming is evil. And in other news, up is down, down is up, Lady Gaga is a serious person, and Congress is a fine group of people to which you feel comfortable turning your back.

This is what passes for morality in our brave new world. Based on speculation about history, most people who have lived are both dependent on agriculture for their life AND victims of what agriculture has wrought. Ergo, it’s better if they had never been born at all. This is what I call Over-Dramatic, Petulant, and Ungrateful Brat Syndrome. Or, ODPUBS.

And it’s strange, since the progress allowed by agriculture is the very thing that allows Diamond to write  academic papers and best-selling books in the first place. He’s a thin branch looking down at the trunk of his tree, shaking his head in condescension, and saying “You shouldn’t have grown so tall. You’ve jeopardized our survival. Don’t you know its windy up here?”

God: “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.”

Diamond and others: “Nope.”

It is no surprise that progressives like Diamond champion abortion and free contraception. And soon, maybe they will champion infanticide itself, and give up the pretense of the fabled “woman’s right to choose,” and just start bowing to Molech openly in the public square. We’ve already started down that path, with one journal of medical “ethics” saying that after-birth abortion should be allowed.

But when the idols are taken out of the closet, perhaps they’ll be easier to tear down.

If this type of reasoning from the halls of higher learning sounds familiar, it should. When you start talking about population control, you start harkening back to the eugenics movement, which is a natural outpouring of Darwinism in a culture. It is a fount of many deaths.

The authors of the “ethics” article are, of course, correct in the sense that abortion inside the fetus is no different from abortion outside the fetus. That reasoning is sound. But they just give the car more gas when they should be slamming on their brakes, shifting into reverse, and pushing the RPM gauge into the red going the opposite direction. They are discovering where their core assumptions have led them. Again. But this time they are not stepping away in absolute horror.

Eugenics, in essence, is still alive. But instead of elites and other brights deciding who lives and who dies, we have that power passed to the parents themselves, a decentralization of evil. Or rather, those who don’t want to be parents.


2 thoughts on “Just Start Bowing to Molech Openly – Agriculture Worse Than Infanticide?”

  1. Great post, Matt. We can only hope that when the “facts” begin to parody themselves, people will realize their absurdity and move on… but I do wonder if Gaga isn’t a harbinger of our eventual full-hearted embrace of the absurd instead. ; )

    1. Yeah. Just like Gaga, these people are being absurd, but want you to treat them with the utmost solemnity. That’s why laughter gets them so riled up and angry.

      How DARE you!

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