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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (8698)	8/29/2006 9:30:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219660

TJ, many countries are not replacing their population these days. Japan, Italy, Hong Kong, China, South Korea [I guess]. India is doing okay, but rapidly dwindling in enthusiasm and India is absolutely NOT sterile in any meaning of the word, though I grant you Singapore is in some ways. The contraceptive was the biggest invention! Even bigger than CDMA - sort of. Well, not really as CDMA is going to have a bigger impact in the long run. The contraceptive cut the need for war. No longer were humans like bunnies, each woman having 10 children causing the unavoidable need for war to take possession of hunter-gather-pastoralist territories and to defeat the other guys in the neighbouring burgeoning tribes who were also being forced by weight of numbers to find somewhere else, although everywhere else was already taken. Now, without the physics of reproduction, it's a matter of choice. As my mathematics lecturer said in 1967, paraphrased, God not only made the joy of little children as an incentive for reproduction, he also made it pleasurable to make sure of plenty to be going on with. With contraceptives, the pleasure component is removed - people can get the pleasure without the reproduction. So now it's just the happiness of having the pitter patter of little feet and the chitter chatter of little voices brightening the place up. Not to mention the night-time screaming, lack of sleep, new ways to spend money [extra accommodation for example, not to mention education], loss of an income, vomit, poo and wee. The trauma of serious problems is certainly challenging too. Never a dull moment. I wonder why a lot of women are choosing "NO!" Blokes too. You'd think they'd be thrilled to work all their lives for a greedy little monster out to rule the world. Mqurice