MarcosZeitola wrote: ↑September 23rd, 2023, 6:12 am
To what degree is depopulation the effect of evil elites and their efforts, and to what extent is it simply the natural consequence of people becoming more and more educated and living in cities where children become more of a hindrance rather than an asset as they would be in more tribal, rural communities? It's not a coincidence that you and @gsjackson, who I consider two of our forum's most intelligent members, are childless. @Rock is reportedly a near-genius as well, and quite successful, and as far as I know, he's childless as well. So it would seem that the more well-educated someone is, the more likely he (or she) is to not have offspring. Meanwhile someone like myself, who has a shitload of children, is less-educated, more tribal by nature... there's quite a big correlation between level of education and reproductive success. No doubt rappers and NBA stars tend to not be Ivy League material but they sure have a lot more offspring than Ivy League graduates tend to have.
In a sense, the world is depopulating itself... it doesn't need much help from the elites. Although no doubt their policies, driven by a need for profit above human wellness, do not help one bit and likely are speeding up what already is a natural process. The "endless growth" model is collapsing, and as it is collapsing, economic growth the world over is slowing down. And as it does, this further increases the pressure on young people, who will be more discouraged from reproducing. Rinse, repeat, and it's no surprise the global birth rate has been dropping rapidly.
True, not all of the effects of the hidden elite's agenda can be blamed on the elite itself. These people have a deep understanding of human nature, especially the modern, post-WW2 man. They know what triggers fear, anxiety, a sense of uncertainty in us. They know what to do to bend us to compliance more easily, to make us better consumers, of merchandise as well as propaganda.
To mention one, the reason why nobody is procreating anymore in most of the advanced economies, both West and East, is for two reasons.
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The elites have allowed, indeed encouraged the Boomer generation and part of Gen X to borrow energy, resources, both physical and symbolic (currency) from the next two or three generation, leaving a global deficit that will be absolutely impossible for our children and grandchildren to fill up. With all due respect to them, I don't see any group of Millennial or Gen Z-ers who have the balls, or are even remotely interested, in turning the world around. They are as much in denial as we are.
Fortunately for them, the way the express their indifference is by largely not partaking to our money-making, energy-sucking rituals. In a way, they are far more harmless to their own future as we have been. Yet, I don't seem the capable of expressing more than a form of meek resignation, which is a synonim of compliance, which is also what the elites wants from humanity.
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Yes, we are more educated than before - on paper, at least. We have also been de-educated to the values of real empathy, genuine solidarity, the sense of belonging to a community, living and dying for a cause. The void left has been filled by a million forms of narcissism and a self-referential existence.
For manipulated we are, a vast majority of us understands, or at least feels, that our kids will inherit a world in much worse shape, packed of near-intractable environmental, geopolitical, social and economic problems. We innately know the struggle for survival and we, some of us at least, refuse the idea of having children, only to let them live in the mess we have created, or contributed to feed with our meekness, our silence and compliance.
We might have been armed boys in a pit full of wolves and many of us managed to survive the scars. Intuitively we know we will be dropping our kids, nude and unarmed, in a pit full of lions.
