ingle parent, bachelor and homosexual.
We also moved from the country to the city in every country. Our populations are becoming more urban day
by day. As we move to the cities and live in apartments, density dependent birth rates (DDBR) take over. It
is simply impossible for a couple to have 10 children like in the old days... assuming they would even want
that many children. Not only does the Service Economy forbid it, but the culture has changed. There are no
more empires to bequeath, no land, no property, no wealth, no money and no one to bequeath it to anyway.
There is no purpose to having children any more. The life of the city is little by little becoming the life of
individuals. Despite our intelligence and or technology and our ability to foresee events and react to them,
we have no way of going back to that classical age even if we wanted to. Family type is a deterministic
process over which we have no control. There is one typical family for each major age and economic
1. The Age of Hunter/Gathering was in general the age of clans and group marriages.
2. The Age of Agriculture was in general the age of the patriarchal family
3. The Age of Manufacturing was in general the age of the nuclear family.
4. And in the Age of Services and Unemployment we are experiencing the age of
bachelors, single parents and homosexuals.
There is no future in celibacy and individuality! Each individual simply lives out his and her life. There is no
Can we go back to the Manufacturing Age, have more blue collars than white, and replace the individual
with mom and pop and two kids? Can we go back to the Agriculture Age and have men put women under
their control again and turn them into the main slave of the house?
Therefore, even if going back to those glorious days happened to be the solution to the problem of declining
reproduction, despite our intelligence and technology, we would have no way of implementing such a plan.
The only way to get the global growth rate to rise again would be to change the social, economic, and
cultural environment. We would have to return to the old days, to the economic arrangements and family
types of the past. Short of this, we can only continue forward toward ever fewer children and ever more
old people: the overturning of the population pyramid. That's where we're headed.
"We are an old species."
Overturning of the
Global Population Pyramid
Density Dependent Birth Rates: "We are becoming an urban species."
|The History of Life on Earth
clan/ group patriarchal nuclear bachelor, single
marriage slavery family parent, homosexual