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huh... the article says that in response to overpopulation that the world "governments have responded globally with draconian eugenics laws, harnessing genetics
by RappingBoomer 7y ago
huh...
the article says that in response to overpopulation that the world "governments have responded globally with draconian eugenics laws, harnessing genetics to determine who can and cannot be allowed to have children."
Well, we do have the same overpopulation that brunner predicted, but instead our governments encourage overpopulation because it props up our Western ponzi economies, which are based on debt and consumer demand....our govt's should be responding to the overpopulation crisis, but they do not because they are under the control of the big corporations that want to keep propping up the ponzi economy...so, brunner called it wrong on this angle...he failed to foresee our out of control Western pseudo-democracies
- cstross 7y agoDid you not notice the one child policy in China? (It came along after Brunner published SoZ, so I'm calling it a win on the predictive front, although they discontinued it more recently.)
- RappingBoomer 7y agoI specifically referred to western pseudo-democracies