I agree with all of that. The world is going to become a place where some communities operate really well, some communities will become gated communities, and some communities will be lawless. I don't know that it's going to be any worse than it's ever been, per se, but it's certainly going to be different.
The countries that are going to do well, are the countries that know how to form intelligent social systems and live by the rule of law. You look around the world right now, and you can see which societies are functioning well and which societies are failures, and it's invariably related to the education of the populace.
And as you mention, overpopulation and lack of education is the driver of the mass migrations and misery you see all over the world. In most of those countries in Africa, India, Pakistan and the Middle East a man's status to a large degree depends on how many boys he has. And so the women is just kept pregnant.
I remember reading a long time ago, and not 100% sure this, but I believe the Palestinian refugee camp had the highest birth rate in the world. You would think it would be the lowest, that people would stop having kids when they can't afford to raise them. But that doesn't happen in most cases.
And in parts of Central and South America they have huge families because the Catholic Church doesn't allow proper birth control and encourages And the poor and more uneducated the person is, the less chance they're going have to override the dictates of the church.
And then again in central and South America, to a large degree they've supplanted education with religion and that has never worked out anywhere. |
