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> This has been the case for several years and is a trend that still accelerating. Of course it will continue to accelerate. There's a mechanism that causes th
by NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
> This has been the case for several years and is a trend that still accelerating.
Of course it will continue to accelerate. There's a mechanism that causes this. Some conspiracy theorists mistake this for an active, purposeful goal, but it may be as simple as children growing up in environments where childlessness has become a norm, internalizing that same norm. Since there are fewer children with each successive generation, the norm is amplified for the next.
> In order for humanity to be able to run, we need to not kill it right after it started crawling.
There are some who seem to want to kill humanity. They don't come right out and say it, of course, that would sound weird and awkward. If you're oblivious to that widespread sentiment, they're perfectly ok with that. The curricula they design for your children in school will slowly be modified so that they aren't quite so fond of your Star Trek visions for the future.
- skulk 3y agoHow does your second paragraph ("they design") not directly fly in the face of your first ("mistake this for an active, purposeful goal")?
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoBecause the two aren't connected. They do want to design school curricula... "to make it better". But they're neither smart enough nor quite so self-aware that it's designed to deliberately lower fertility rates. One might say they're doing it subconsciously, but that seems more like mumbo jumbo to me.
- anonym29 3y agoHanlon's Razor always seemed like the perfect cover for deliberately committing malicious acts without others being able to identify the activity as deliberately malicious. You do evil shit and then you just play dumb. How can anyone prove your intents if you fully conceal them? That said, I do find your argument here pretty compelling. Hanlon's Razor exists for a reason, at the end of the day.
- skulk 3y ago> But they're neither smart enough nor quite so self-aware that it's designed to deliberately lower fertility rates So who's doing this deliberation? Again, you're pointing to a conspiracy but also denying its existence in the same breath.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoNo, you've confused my words. Happens in threads that stretch past a few hours. There is a desire that humanity go extinct. But this isn't a goal for them, more like a fantasy. They're not actively working towards it, and they don't like to say it out loud. They do design curricula (they're in positions where that's a responsibility, quite often). But they aren't conspiring. They're bumbling towards a doomsday, instinctively. They merely want to change the curricula to discourage the Star Trek future. In some vague hand-wavy way, this "makes it better". They're not sure why, and if you were to ask one hundred of them, you'd get 100 answers. And then if you asked months later, you'd get 100 different answers. It's just not purposeful, and there is no actual conspiracy. If only there were one. Conspirators can be found out, rounded up, the evil plot exposed. But this microbe-like quorum sensing, where none need feel guilty, but simple coordination can take place, they're all innocent. There's no secret documents, no secret plan, no sinister mastermind. Even you, you're part of it, and you don't even know it. People like you come by, mistake it for some conspiracy theory, and stir up shit as a sort of invisibility cloak. Unless of course, you were doing it deliberately. like when you quote a statement where I said "neither/nor [...] deliberately" with the very direct and simple negation of that idea.
- skulk 3y agoDeliciously rich to claim I'm the one stirring shit up while you accuse me of desiring the end of humanity. Get some help man.