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Today, I want to talk about human procreation. Even though I have two kids, I am still bewildered by the idea of humans having more children. I've blogged extensively about how I think there is a human over-population problem, but beyond that I really don't know how we've kept our species going this long. I've talked to both men and women about this and I haven't come to a consensus on either side as to who is in charge of sex, let alone who is in charge of procreation.
Does it happen by accident? Of course not. We all know that in order for their to be a child conception there must be two people fucking somewhere. How did they get together? Was this child planned out? Or is it all just an accident when someone gets pregnant? I personally haven't decided because the personal differences between men and women, often resulting in anger and frustration toward the opposite gender leave me baffled as to how they would want to get together to fuck, let alone make a life altering decision to procreate and have children. In my lifetime I have seen the gender gap both widen with communications strained, and yet shorten with the broadening androgyny of today's youth.
The communication gap really perplexes me because we have all this technology, education, and access to information that has never been so prevalent in all of human history... and yet, I feel like people are worse at communicating than ever before.
This leaves me with one simple conclusion, that the ONLY reason we still get together and fuck is because of our animalistic hormones that tell us to breed. These hormones start around puberty and last through our twenties and into our thirties, primarily. We still have the urge to fuck around after that, but that's more for pleasure than for baby making... although I've said many times before that fucking and sex = children. Really though, these hormones must be pretty powerful because it's not like people are actually getting along better. We have an incredibly high divorce rate in this nation of the USA leaving lots of kids stuck in single parent homes or orphaned.
Hormones. If it wasn't for our innate desire to breed, which by nature goes against the logic center of our mammalian brains, there wouldn't be any more of us. These instincts served us well when we were a fledgling species fighting in the raw of nature for our very survival; back when we were tribal and it was the survival of the fittest. Now, however, especially in poor, less developed nations, these old archaic religions and customs have been the main cause of over-breeding the human animal which leads to famine, disease, and low quality of life.
Why is it then, with this mass of knowledge and large brains can we not figure this issue of over-population and over-breeding out? WE are supposed to be smarter than our animal cousins. We are supposed to be more evolved... the supposed pinnacle of evolution, if you will. Yet here we are dawning upon a new year and we are continually facing the same problems as generations ago, if not worse ones.
I want to finish with a familiar idea for this new generation of my fellow humans. If you can't feed them, then don't breed them. Life is precious and it loses value and novelty if those people are lost, unwanted, and broken because they came into this world for all the wrong reasons. I wish my fellow humans would WAKE UP!!! Start using those brains the creator gave us, which were meant for MORE than just our animal instinct to fuck and reproduce.
Lastly, I want to put in a quote...
In Malthus' opinion "... the masses are incapable of exercising moral restraint, which was the only real remedy for the population problem. They were therefore doomed to always live at bare subsistence level. If all income and wealth were distributed among them, it would be totally wasted within one generation due to profligate behavior and population growth, and they would be as poor and destitute as ever. Paternalistic attempts to help the poor were thereafter highly likely to fail. Also they were a positive evil because they drained wealth and income from the higher (and therefore more moral) ranks of society. These people were responsible - either in person or through patronage - for all the great achievements of society: art, music, philosophy, literature, and so on owed their existence to the good taste and generosity of these people. Taking money from them would deprive this world of culture."
"Priding themselves on what they conceive to be a mark of the reach and size of their own understandings, of the extent and comprehensiveness of their views, they will look upon this neglect merely as an indication of poverty, and narrowness, in the mental exertions of their contemporaries, and only think that the world is not yet prepared to receive their sublime truths."
Thomas Robert Malthus, "An Essay on the Principle of Population"
This is a lot to think about so I will leave you with this to ponder. This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse 420.
Peace. Love. Respect. Truth. Thought.
Today, I want to talk about human procreation. Even though I have two kids, I am still bewildered by the idea of humans having more children. I've blogged extensively about how I think there is a human over-population problem, but beyond that I really don't know how we've kept our species going this long. I've talked to both men and women about this and I haven't come to a consensus on either side as to who is in charge of sex, let alone who is in charge of procreation.
Does it happen by accident? Of course not. We all know that in order for their to be a child conception there must be two people fucking somewhere. How did they get together? Was this child planned out? Or is it all just an accident when someone gets pregnant? I personally haven't decided because the personal differences between men and women, often resulting in anger and frustration toward the opposite gender leave me baffled as to how they would want to get together to fuck, let alone make a life altering decision to procreate and have children. In my lifetime I have seen the gender gap both widen with communications strained, and yet shorten with the broadening androgyny of today's youth.
The communication gap really perplexes me because we have all this technology, education, and access to information that has never been so prevalent in all of human history... and yet, I feel like people are worse at communicating than ever before.
This leaves me with one simple conclusion, that the ONLY reason we still get together and fuck is because of our animalistic hormones that tell us to breed. These hormones start around puberty and last through our twenties and into our thirties, primarily. We still have the urge to fuck around after that, but that's more for pleasure than for baby making... although I've said many times before that fucking and sex = children. Really though, these hormones must be pretty powerful because it's not like people are actually getting along better. We have an incredibly high divorce rate in this nation of the USA leaving lots of kids stuck in single parent homes or orphaned.
Hormones. If it wasn't for our innate desire to breed, which by nature goes against the logic center of our mammalian brains, there wouldn't be any more of us. These instincts served us well when we were a fledgling species fighting in the raw of nature for our very survival; back when we were tribal and it was the survival of the fittest. Now, however, especially in poor, less developed nations, these old archaic religions and customs have been the main cause of over-breeding the human animal which leads to famine, disease, and low quality of life.
Why is it then, with this mass of knowledge and large brains can we not figure this issue of over-population and over-breeding out? WE are supposed to be smarter than our animal cousins. We are supposed to be more evolved... the supposed pinnacle of evolution, if you will. Yet here we are dawning upon a new year and we are continually facing the same problems as generations ago, if not worse ones.
I want to finish with a familiar idea for this new generation of my fellow humans. If you can't feed them, then don't breed them. Life is precious and it loses value and novelty if those people are lost, unwanted, and broken because they came into this world for all the wrong reasons. I wish my fellow humans would WAKE UP!!! Start using those brains the creator gave us, which were meant for MORE than just our animal instinct to fuck and reproduce.
Lastly, I want to put in a quote...
In Malthus' opinion "... the masses are incapable of exercising moral restraint, which was the only real remedy for the population problem. They were therefore doomed to always live at bare subsistence level. If all income and wealth were distributed among them, it would be totally wasted within one generation due to profligate behavior and population growth, and they would be as poor and destitute as ever. Paternalistic attempts to help the poor were thereafter highly likely to fail. Also they were a positive evil because they drained wealth and income from the higher (and therefore more moral) ranks of society. These people were responsible - either in person or through patronage - for all the great achievements of society: art, music, philosophy, literature, and so on owed their existence to the good taste and generosity of these people. Taking money from them would deprive this world of culture."
"Priding themselves on what they conceive to be a mark of the reach and size of their own understandings, of the extent and comprehensiveness of their views, they will look upon this neglect merely as an indication of poverty, and narrowness, in the mental exertions of their contemporaries, and only think that the world is not yet prepared to receive their sublime truths."
Thomas Robert Malthus, "An Essay on the Principle of Population"
This is a lot to think about so I will leave you with this to ponder. This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse 420.
Peace. Love. Respect. Truth. Thought.
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