In this video, Webster talks about the oligarchic, pseudoscientific theory that human economic activity and development are checked by limitations in resources, and that there's nothing you can do about it. This is entirely disproven as nonsense. When you lack resources of any one type, human Reason has the ability to create, develop and discover new resources, technologies, and avenues of development – and that's how we got from cave dwelling to the space age. As in the past people got over scarcity by harnessing fire, inventing the wheel and agriculture, and so on and so forth, nowadays when you lack, let's say oil, you develop fusion power – and then you reach even higher. After all, Humanity is endowed with the most valuable of all resources, Reason: giving Man the power of creative rational thinking and, thus, the ability to realize progress.
As such, and when science, technology, and economic development are embraced, there are virtually no limitations or problems that Humanity can't solve.
Regardless, the limited resources view, largely based on the work of Thomas Robert Malthus in the late 18th century, has been fostered ever since, generally for the fact that it is a pseudoscientific means to rationalize social inequality, oligarchic rule and practices of economic looting and even genocide. If this world is one of 'scarcity' and 'limited resources', then it follows that there will always be extremes of inequality, that poverty is a natural thing, that economies should be based on redistributing limited wealth, and that scarcity can best be solved by controlling population numbers. If you lack bread for all, you don't bake more bread, you get rid of people.
This is the essential economic rationale that has presided over every atrocity of the last 200 years, ever since Malthus himself supervised the economic looting of India (with the genocide of millions) on behalf of the East India Co.
It was also under this economic rationale that the same Malthus, writing his infamous “An Essay on Population” in 18th century England, laments the 'excessive' numbers of the poor and economically useless (as he sees them) in British society, and proposes measures such as housing these populations in workhouses and poorhouses, in such conditions as would allow for the effective spread of illnesses and plagues amongst them.
This is the same spirit that animated the later formulations of eugenics and 'scientific elitism' (including Darwin's own advocacy of eugenics and race genocide), that then went on to inspire fascist doctrines of 'race science' and slave labor economics, and that today animates neoliberal obsessions around social darwinism, enforced interethnic segregation, population control, and population reduction.
This video is an excerpt of a classic Webster Tarpley interview on the Alex Jones Show. Webster's website is and the website for The Alex Jones Show is, of course,
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