Racist population fears killed by facts

The anti-pops see the world through the single lens of a specific ideology. For example, Frederick Taylor’s scientific management theory provided an ideology based on the metaphor of the machine where humanity was sacrificed for efficiency. The metaphor the anti-pops use is the earth as an organism. We are all organisms existing in a defined space - units of consumption rather than self-determining, conscious and intelligent beings, each with a unique character.

Much of the anti-pops organism thinking can be found in the social-philosophy of the 19^th century. It is a bastard version of Social Darwinism, which holds up the mirror to human life and states that all we see reflects the laws of nature. In effect, natural law is invoked to legitimise the organisation of society on their terms.

Basically, when the economy is growing, more people will arrive. Conversely when the economy slows or contracts, less people arrive. The anti-pops want to kill the economy by depriving Australia of skilled labour. For them, all foreigners are a threat - they will take our jobs and undercut wages.

Yet this excuse was used against the Chinese in the gold field in the 19^th century, the Italians, Greeks, Baltic people and women after World War Two, the Vietnamese and Cambodians in the 1970s and 1980s and more recently Iraqi and Afghan peoples, yet Australia has a thriving multicultural society. Lets give the anti-pops attitude a name – racist. A vote for them is a vote for the far right and the whacko social engineering found in science fiction.

Far from Australia being inundated with people, what we have, and what the Western world is experiencing, is mass movement by new arrivals as well as interstate and intrastate migration to the capital cities. The ability of our state governments, especially in Sydney, to provide adequate infrastructure for these people is another matter entirely.