Opinion/Editorial
MOVING INEXORABLY TOWARD THE ABYSS
The birth rate of the entirety of the United States and its territories is 1.6 births per woman for a lifetime. What does that mean, and why is this single figure a more dangerous statistic than the rising temperatures from global warming? This figure is not the worst on the planet. South Korea is at 1.2, Denmark at 1.4, and Norway at 1.3. Two children per woman would allow any population to maintain itself, and many countries, almost all in the third world, have rates above 4.0!
What is happening to the American culture and those cultures of so many developed countries? What can be done to save such an advanced society, culture, and economic powerhouse like the USA, as there is not much time left? Part of the reason for this monumental descent of the birthrate has been caused by inventive communication devices, systems not even considering the coming giant changes in the wrong direction, called artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, and ever more personally revealing information about everyone, which can only lead to even worse reproduction statistics.
The first thing that could be done is not likely to be done at all…just the reverse. Once again, as was the case two hundred years ago, immigration should be encouraged and not discouraged and viciously punished. Within twenty years, the workforce of the entire country will be reduced by twenty to thirty percent, and the remaining members of the culture will be ever more needy and service-expensive to take care of. Families in lowly developed countries have always considered building large families to support the existence of the family itself, but that does not occur in developed countries anymore. We need immigrants to help save us.
Curbs must also be put into the communications system, forcing everyone on the Internet to be identified and then punished severely for publishing negative information about anyone else, whether valid or not. Young people can’t even get a date, much less reproduce, with any kind of criminal record (right down to traffic tickets!), big school loans, bad credit history, and tons of other stuff young people have been using the Internet to find out. Without risking by trying to meet someone, well, life becomes ever more solitary, and hence without sex as a part of it, and therefore population stabilization or even growth. Children must be considered a blessing of good fortune instead of an additional expense.
Almost all controls are being removed from the creation and implementation of AI across the spectrum of our lives. Pricing, like that of Delta Airlines (it wanted to start charging passengers based on A.I. analysis and investigation of people’s ability to pay!), and now being installed into stores like Best Buy in Lake Geneva (the photo is of the new automated price tags, as the items will no longer have prices printed or tagged to them directly). A.I. will change the prices using these automated tags at any instant based upon proprietary information not to be released to customers. This system is coming to all the grocery stores, including Walmart, Aldi’s, and many more. Robotix and Elon Musk’s robot company are coming out with robots that almost look, react, speak, and express themselves like humans. Uncontrolled A.I. is driving this movement.
It’s eerie to encounter one of these science-fiction machines, and it’s potentially deadly and terminal for the continuance of human life on Earth. Robots cannot care, and human survival, in spite of the country’s current leadership, depends one hundred percent on caring. Without caring, the human drive for survival withers and dies, and we all die with it. So far, all the life-like robots being foisted out to the public at these presentations follow another strange, or not so strange, feature. They are all so far designed to be young, slim, beautiful, woman-like creatures. Their exposed features appear fully functional in copying human behavior and expressions. What other unexposed parts do these exotic-looking ‘female’ creatures have that mimic more personal human parts?
