Less children, more immortality!
Our world is overpopulated.
Making babies in this day and age is egoistic at best or dumb routine at ordinary. We don't want to stop egoistic people who actually want a child. We do want it to be a less accepted choice, though. But we absolutely want to stop people from bringing unwanted children in this world along with some of the wanted.
How do you feel about children?
Personal choice?
Is it really? Does nagging count as 'not so personal after all'?
We think childmaking should be discouraged in the world today. There are many voices that urge breeding, (even with the idiot claim that we need new blood to support the aging population, which is idiotic precisely because we got new and old blood capable of work but rendered unemployable because our needs are met already for the most part and there is less and less need for extra labor). This group (minds.com/groups/profile/713672694654050304) is dedicated to countering those voices and balancing the choice. It may turn into an echochamber, and we like it that way. We wish it to be populated with thoughtful opinions and people, as to give the potential followers a place to start having support and warm shoulders, condensed/digested knowledge and so on, to protect them from the religious teachings or pressure from relatives. This topic should become non taboo.
And the outcome would be less overall children, with those that make it to the light being actually very desired instead of routinely produced.
We are 7 billion already, perpetual humans reached, achievement unlocked. Now let's do something more important with our lives.
With or without the aid from the formula of the universe, or artificial intelligence, technology is at the point of allowing the healthy among us to extend life till we reach brain upload from the awake state (instead of the frozen head state).
Immortality is close.
We want it closer!
We should have become caretakers of our planet, and we are not yet even defenders, (because there is no profit to be made in protecting our pale blue dot from asteroids, or making less gadgets without planned obsolesce). We need to wake up, or we may go the way of the dinosaurs.
This group is here to help evolve the mindset and accompanying vocabulary to deal with society's pressure to have more children. Words are powerful, and, having some lines of debate already prepared works well enough in getting parents and grandparents chew their fingernails when unable to reply the way humans of the 21st century should, through logic and reason.
We are a collective. Our culture is based on that, and our thought process cannot be separated from the environment around us. But we can chose many aspects of our environment.
The online world is a great place. In this great place, a nice strategy is to let grannies cluster in fakebuk while we keep exploring the intellectual space with as few shackles of convention as possible.
We have reached this far through a competitive spirit that has aided well the development of our civilization. The tipping point in terms of efficiency (effort put in vs. results coming out) has been for quite a while now to stop aggressive competition in favour of collaboration under passion instead of stress for survival. But this cannot be done in pockets of isolated deviants, who would be eaten (cooked preferably, but alive as well... figuratively) in the competitive environment. This takes a massive collective effort, which has been delayed by mechanisms in place that are almost as if designed to do that (vetted politicians, the illusion of choice, and once every few years to execute that illusion).
But, there are alternatives to the classic resistance.
The best of which: Fast Forward technology development! Everywhere, especially where it makes the most difference, aka: The formula of the Universe (#BAUniC), automation (robotics and A.I.), and using technology instead of being used by it (taking a new device to sped up tasks already doing, not taking new tasks because of the new device).
The current incarnation of the capitalistic/monopolistic/bureaucratic system is squeezing the creativity out of the most brilliant minds of our time for menial jobs that cannot be done by the unemployable middle-level humans and soon will not be practical to be done even by the dedicated smarties.
Any system coming to replace or repair the current one should not be burdened by the negativity associated with the previous labels. If the capitalistic system did not degenerate to mafia/corruption/monopolies/etc., it would be a good system upon which to improve and adapt new concepts. If the communist system did not degenerate to dictatorship/corruption/overburaucracy/etc., it would be a good system upon which to evolve and adapt for the new age. We are criticizing the current dominant system, but we would be criticizing anyone in with great power and lack of responsible intentions.
The 1% want immortality and not having to keep bodyguards around at all times (remember Batman), but are prepared for either way. They know there is so much to explore in our universe, rather than survival.
The 89% want an easier life as a result of advances in economy and society (remember StarTrek), but are not prepared to become the horses of horseless carriages.
The problem is that 10% of slightly above average people that make up the system. They are the conscious and subconscious of its internal thought process, and actuator of its will. And they are not particularly bright in their swarm manifestation, but persistent and wrongly transmitting their inadequacy to their replacement humans who join the ranks and become the system. Their philosophy: More More More! A system in perpetual crisis, perpetual struggle, perpetual growth. While that is good in times of war, we have reached the limits of our planets sustainability for the current technology in times of pseudo-peace, and, this philosophy breeds war! (of course, journalists reporting on it, and the soldiers fighting it, and the generals causing/commanding it need to eat too, and it is too late for most of them to learn new skills, not that there are many positions available anyway).
We are the first generation that is worse than our ancestors. And this is absurd given how much we have grown.
There are many articles dealing with this topic. The blame is easy to see in the final form. But, rather than pursuing what the very system has trained us to do, seek punishment for the guilty... what if we forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing. They are acting based on wrong beliefs. They are acting against their personal interests while thinking they are acting for the good. They are acting against their own swarm interests often knowing it is wrong. They are minor imbecilles (if they were smarter, they would be joining the 1%, which is their dream. And if they were dumber or in lower positions of power, they would be joining the ones demanding basic universal income). They do not know what they are doing. They are not to blame. But that does not mean they are to be cared about in the revolution to come. After all, it is their own damn fault.
Progress, especially right now, at these favourable conditions in the development of sciences and technology, is persistent. For the good of the 1% and the 89%, a fast progress is desired and fueled on many levels. The revolution is unstoppable!
Less children, more immortality!
This is our answer to Distraction Day 20170601 (aka, Children's day of 2017).
Feel free to debate this topic.
Feel free to surpass this topic and carry on greater things with what action capabilities our environment has granted us.
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Links:
Unemployable humans - cgpgrey.com/blog/humans-need-not-apply
Building A Universe Competition #BAUniC - baunic.blogspot.com
Less children, more immortality! - minds.com/groups/profile/713672694654050304