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To: Road Walker who wrote (280079)	3/14/2006 11:22:38 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 1576348

"This correlation between secularism, individualism and low fertility portends a vast change in modern societies." I saw this article before. In some respects it strikes me as just a variant on "The Marching Morons", a great short story by CM Kornbluth. It extrapolated the tendency of less educated people to have more children than the more educated into a static society where the typical person just sort of bumbled through a life stuffed with flashy geegaws and driven solely by mindless consumerism. Hmm, come to think of it, he might not have gotten it wrong... The story is set hundreds of years in the future: the date is 7-B-936. A man from the past, John Barlow, is reanimated in this future. The world seems mad to Barlow until Tinny-Peete explains The Problem of Population: due to a combination of intelligent people prudently not having children and excessive breeding by lesser intelligent people, the world is full of morons with the exception of an elite few who work slavishly to keep order. Barlow, who was a shrewd conman in his day, has a solution to sell to the elite. en.wikipedia.org Personally, I think there are too many factors that go into a whether or not patriarchy is due for a comeback to declare that is the future. If the squeeze on the middle class continues and the gap between the wealthy and everyone else increases, then the answer is 'yes'. But that would be true regardless of who has the most kids.

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