The next day he was in a better mood. He kissed me when he came back from his meetings. He wanted to fuck. After sex, I could not think of any lead in to continue our discussion from the day before. So I just asked him outright. “What do you plan to do with the consumer population since it is obsolete?”, I asked with as much innocence and timidity as I could project.
He replied, “The only solution is to depopulate. There is no other way to move forward from our current position.”
Before he launched into how they plan to depopulate, I wanted to know why. I was not sure where we would end up, and he might get worked up again. So I asked him, “How did you determine that overpopulation is the problem?
"It was known to be a problem from the very beginning. You see, overpopulation is a problem, which we created. The market requires exponential growth, this in turn, requires exponential population growth. To do this, we made death a taboo among consumers. We have turned it into their greatest fear, and made it synonymous with evil. Consumers now believe that anything that causes death is the worst kind of bad."
“In the scientific community, overpopulation became recognized as a problem in the 1960s. A global study on the effects of population growth was commissioned in 1970. By that time, the global human population had been increasing exponentially, due to changes in food production after World War II, the consequences of oil production, which created new fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. The the growing use of antibiotics and vaccines also contributed substantially. We could feed many more people than in the past, at the same time, the death rate was declining globally.”
“The report stated the main issues, and offered some potential solutions. The authors of the report noted in their interviews after the study that there were no humane solutions to overpopulation. Of course, they left out the inhumane solutions from the report, but still included expanding abortion worldwide and further limiting birth rates in key areas.”
“After some debate, we decided in the mid 1970s that public discussion of overpopulation would hinder any sort of solutions. We moved to private studies and discussions, which were not publicized or recorded. We removed overpopulation from public discussions and the general public forgot about the issue.”
I asked, “Why can’t people publicly discuss population issues?”
“Maybe, one billion people could discuss overpopulation and deal with the causes. Seven billion people will never deal with it, because the root cause is overpopulation. There are too many people who will deny the facts. No one wants to volunteer themselves, their child, or potential children, to reduce the population. It is also much more difficult to deal with problems, if half the population will not make an effort. If 3 billion do not make an effort, those who do, will not have any impact.”
“Under the current rules of the game, consumers feel they are entitled to participation in decisions that affect them. To a large degree we give them the illusion of participation through representative democracy. In practice, any decisions like this would not work within the democratic framework. At best it would go nowhere causing more social division, and at worst, the political system would be exposed for the illusion that it is, and collapse. So, it is not a debate which we want in the public sphere. It also might bring to light any actions, which we decide to take, hindering our plans. Since it is a problem we created, it is also a problem we must solve."
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