So in the
last issue of We Are Completely Fucked I opined that humans are a lot like rats, and we will probably end up the same way. Well, I think it's a step worse than that.
It's not just that our subconscious is scanning for population density. That might be one of the main issues but still only the most obvious one.
Every negative psychological issue is on the rise. People are more lonely, more suicidal, more narcissistic, the economy seems to be headed towards an inevitable collapse and the people in charge know it's happening so why are they, by all appearances, deliberately doing it? There have been more than 50 million US abortions since it was made legal and they now want to kill actual live babies, we are inviting hostile foreigners and on and on and on. Every social ill you can imagine all have one thing in common: It is Bad For Reproduction.
And that just might be the key to it all. Our emotions and instincts are still wired to a hunter-gatherer environment. We can produce hundreds, thousands of times as much food as in ancient times. But the emotional part of our brain doesn't know that. It still thinks that There Are Not Enough Bears in the Woods for All Those People. Even if half of them die hunting down those bears.
Everything in psychology is a spectrum. Thus I propose that what we call the survival instinct is as well. In effect, what we are left with through a variety of psychological devices brought about by certain environmental cues, is a sort of collective "death drive".
I'm fine with this. I have been studying this shit for 8 years now, almost to the day, and a few days ago it all finally clicked. We actively want to thin the population. Not as a deliberate conscious choice on anyones part necessarily, but as an emergent property. Further, there is nothing that can be done about it except on the individual level for those few who understand what is happening. Thus there is no need to continue to stress myself out over trying to save the world. It can not be done. What can be done is use the knowledge of the underlying biological mechanics to my advantage in my life. So, move to somewhere sunny and cheap and watch things unfold. Act as appropriate depending on how things develop. And in the event that I end up with kids one day, use it to make them healthy and better than the previous three generations because god knows they need it, and my family is far from the worst I know.