I am not a strong person.
I often write here about overpopulation.
I have little hope for humankind.
I so often feel that I am on the edge of utter failure.
I certainly feel that humanity as a whole is on the edge of utter failure.
Shall we consider the option of assisted suicide?
Let me start with a little background.
My wife died in March of 2008.
I have a girlfriend next door, and she adores me.
But my wife was my best friend. My girlfriend is still a stranger, although we are gradually building a friendship.
I have a full time job, but I often feel I am not very good at it, showing up late, taking too long for my breaks, etc.
I have an apartment, a car, etc. But it seems like such a chore to pay the rent, the car payment, my phone bill.
I have three roommates, and they help me, but we annoy each other a lot.
So, in my personal life, I often feel as if I am on the edge of utter failure.
And when I think of humanity as a whole, I feel in my bones that:
Overpopulation is a root cause of global climate change.
Overpopulation is a root cause of millions of people living on fault lines, such as Haiti and California and Pakistan and China, and below sea level or too near sea level, such as Bangladesh or New Orleans.
Overpopulation is a root cause of the destruction of any ecosystem that has been damaged or destroyed.
Overpopulation is a root cause of poverty and disease, because if we set up a system that will care for a certain number of humans, and then the humans breed so much that we soon have twice as many humans, and the system cannot support so many....
How can we deal with overpopulation?
We must reduce the number of humans on the planet.
I propose a serious policy, a strict policy, of contraception, specifically vasectomies, to reduce the birth rate to one child for every ten adults.
Visualize an apartment complex with about 50 apartments. About twenty five women of child bearing age live in that complex. About twenty five men, as well. One of these women gives birth to five children. All fifty adults are involved with the care of those five children. This way, the children grow up with siblings, which is emotionally healthy for all involved.
In this way, one child is born to replace every ten adults, and yet any and all adults can be involved with the children, yet none of the children is an only child.
Also, I think we should stop acting as slaves to money. We should have government actually govern. Certain government workers should monitor all human activity, and determine the cash flow at any point in the system, rather than our current system in which no matter how great an idea is, no matter how important, we always ask, where will we get the money? We act as if money is made of physical matter. It is not. Money can vanish, such as money in my 401k that was $13,000 and then was $9,000. And the Chinese make money from thin air from a trick in the exchange rate, as I understand. In a free market, the dollar never has the same value from moment to moment, so it is not a stable medium of exchange. The only way we could have a stable dollar would be to have wage and price controls, as I said above, with adjustments made by the government as needed.
But less than one percent of all humans will agree with these two ideas, a very low birth rate, and a system of government by way of government, rather than all of us serving as slaves to money.
So, I see all of humanity on the edge of utter failure.
So, consider the option of assisted suicide.
When a person is terminally ill, the common practice is to give drugs to ease pain, and if a side effect is an earlier death than without drugs, so be it.
Taking it to the step of assisted suicide, the drugs are given to hasten death, not just ease pain.
What exactly is the difference? I suppose it may be just the way we think about it.
Anyway, what about chronic depression? Or, what about me? I am tired of living on the edge of utter failure.
When my wife was alive, because she was born disabled, my goal in life was to care for her, and have a nice marriage in the process.
After she died, my goal was to get a new girfriend, and become emotionally stable. I have a girlfriend who adores me, and I feel emotionally stable.
Ironically, feeling emotionally stable gives me nothing else to do.
Oh, I could save the world by blogging here, and persuading everyone to establish a very low birth rate, and dramatically change the economic system.
How is that working? Are you sold? No?
Well, as someone once said to me,
If you are serious about population control, kill yourself.