Alright folks, a disclaimer: what I'm about to talk about is a serious faux pas and I take responsibility for it should it offend anyone. (With the exception of external links and quotes.)
The planet and humanity are turning into a fetid pile of shit, and the shit is beginning to smell.
I am generally a very leftist minded person, but at the same time I can be highly conservative -- it's an odd mix, but here are some thoughts.
In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct, Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. -- Nikola Tesla
For a huge amount of material that is Pro-Eugenics, visit eugenics.net. Conversely, since I like to be somewhat fair about these things... Here is a Anti-Eugenics site (highest ranks in google).
That said... I am not racially discriminative, as the latter link would seem to suggest. Rather, I am concerned about the lack of inhibitors to global population. One third of America will have diabetes by 2030 (I forget the source) based on popular trends. By 2100, we'll have 17 billion slugs living on the planet, with no goals in life other than to make more slugs. These people won't care that the world is massively overpopulated, and food makes it very difficult to sustain the population. No, instead, they will be driven to mate - often, and without thought.
Some say that the ability that sets us above the animal world is our ability to reason. By this token, we should be a fairly logical society, and should accomplish great things.
This has indeed been the case in the past, when life has been harsher and ingenuity was required to survive. People were in shape, since they needed to work, and the cycle of science was for the basis of science -- not solely for commercial market appeal.
We can only blame ourselves for our current situation though. It is the technology that we've created that has turned humanity into slugs. Passive entertainment, catering to carnal desired rather than stirring up the seeds of ingenuity that lie within, has created an army of couch potatos whom care little about anything other than their ability to reproduce. Oh, goodie! more potatos!
My favourite quote, at the moment, "Technology: so you can do less, faster." applies perfectly to this situation, if viewed on a macro level. We harvest our food by the tons, and send them to the cities to support the armies of slugs that are churning through products at breakneck pace. In Winnipeg, for example, we have nearing 750,000 people here. Maybe 2,000 of them are not automaton-droids, slaved to their TVs in the continuous cycle of TV-work-eat-TV-mate-TV-sleep. When they get together, the only thing they can talk about is TV! (GOD DAMNIT!)
Don't think I'm joking here. There is so little creativeness less in the individual, that when socialising, they cannot create a new conversation. Instead, we talk about TV. "Did you see that episode of...", "That reminds me of that scene when...", "That movie is so funny, especially when...", &c. It is repulsive.
TV will never go away. To quote my boss here, "You can never go back." And since wiping out most of humanity is not something I'm willing to do to get rid of TV, I'll have to think of a new plan...
So, Eugenics is the plan, but it'd only work in a closed environment, where there is a limit to the population, and reproduction occurs on a guided basis. It has to be good for the whole, not just for the individual, and the 'colony' must be run on a strict set of rules.
Some would jump up and down screaming amiss if this is tried on Earth. They would call it a cult, or racist organisation. But I ask you, what is worse?
Be safe
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