If Man won’t do it, Nature will, William Shatner says.
(In the Star Trek episode “Mirror, Mirror,” Kirk meets a wicked Spock in a parallel universe. He dissuades his first officer from eradicating an uncooperative humanoid race. Image: StarTrek.com)
from Mark:
Star Trek star William Shatner said last week that the earth is striking back against humans with natural disasters.
“They [people] are pressed together, defecating into the ocean,” said Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek. “The earth can’t take it.”
At one point in a long conversation with talk show host Glenn Beck, Shatner decried humankind’s penchant for reproduction. (See clip, and an excerpt from the transcript, below). It is a position he shares with his fellow transhumanist, Max More.
In a strange blurring of real and virtual reality, both Shatner and his Star Trek character are heroes to the transhumanists, who view the human body as limited, imperfect, and in need of artificial augmentation.
The transhumanists also want to bring about “a social order where responsible decisions can be implemented.”
Shatner, a vigorous 74-year-old (he also appears to have been “under the knife”), was on Beck’s show to flog his new autobiography, Up Till Now.
Note: I was a contributing editor to one issue of Glenn Beck’s magazine, Fusion. — mb
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Glenn Beck – Interviews – Shatner v. Glenn
Well, nature, nature eventually will take care of that problem like they did, like nature does with animals. We’re overgrazing. So when deer multiply, when the natural order of things is disturbed and predators are taken away, for example, the deer, they overpopulate, they eat too much of the food and they starve. And we’re going to — if we don’t curb — how do we stop the overpopulation? I guess it’s by education and saying you’ve got to have less children, you can’t have all the children you want anymore. There’s a difference in the world now. Or nature will take care of it.
A red plastic, mock up of a PADD from Start Trek: Deep Space Nine is up for sale, via the folks at Beverly Hills-based Profiles in History. The type on the screen is a decal.
George Takei and his partner of 21 years were finally able to make it official this week. But the newlyweds may find their good fortune undone in the fall. Anti-marriage activists (perversely calling themselves defenders of the institution) plan to arouse the masses against equality for gays and lesbians, with a ballot measure. — mb