Too many people?

For a long time, the idea about population was that it was too high—too many people. But recently there’s been a shift, led by people like Elon Musk, who say that the opposite is the real problem—that not enough people are being born, and in the future, there won’t be enough people around. It’s called population collapse.

You’ve probably seen the statistics—millennials and zoomers aren’t getting married and having kids, so population will decline, and so on. The conventional wisdom about population now is that more people need to reproduce, and fast, or else there will be a big problem sustaining society in the future.

But I think this is wrong, and the other way of thinking—that there are in fact too many people—is correct.

It isn’t necessarily that there are too many people to feed and house and so on—there’s plenty of food and plenty of housing. Plenty of water too. Plenty of medicine and clothing. Plenty of everything. It is a big bountiful planet that we live on, and it can provide for all of us. That isn’t the issue.

So why are there too many people? When the phrase “too many people” comes up, you should ask—too many people for what? The answer is—too many people for the concept of humanity to apply to. We have simply stopped caring about the concept of humanity—what is valuable about humanity, what does it mean to be a person, etc etc. Nobody thinks about it, nobody studies it, not in any real way, not anymore.

Sure, we have lots of bullshit in media and academia about identity and so on—but that has nothing to do with the study of humanity. It has nothing to do with history, philosophy, literature, the arts. It is what the empty elites give us when they are out of ideas. We have simply given up studying, expanding on, and developing humanity itself. This used to be something that was taken seriously—called “the humanities.” Now it is completely dead.

My point is that there are too many people for the thin concept of humanity that we have now. Our main goal on this planet should be to deepen, strengthen and build up the concept of humanity—what is it to be human? Why is it important? How do we create meaning? What are we doing and what do we mean by doing it? Those kinds of things.

Of course, any attempt at doing that is totally dead and gone forever, and will never return. Education has given up on humanity—it is only about STEM nonsense and identity social justice nonsense.

And our concept of humanity is dying at the same time that more and more people are being added to the world—that is the problem. That is why there are too many people. I can’t think of anything more grotesque than this—we know less about what humanity is, at the same time that more humans are existing. This is precisely backwards, isn’t it?