Old Jingleballicks:
"I bring you tidings of great joy, the human race is going to
dissappear... Oh, yes, we are about to join the great retiles in
extinction... We have played the final joke on ourselves...man, in
saving himself, has destroyed himself...there must be chuckling on
Olympus, we go not to Armegeddon but to the gas chamber and we generate
our own gas."
"Man has solved his problems: predators he has removed from the earth,
heat and cold he has turned aside, communicable disease he has
practically eliminated, the old live on the young do not die. The best
wars can't even balance the birth rate. There was a time a small army
could cut a population in half in a year. Starvation, typhus, plague,
and tuberculosis were trusty weapons. A scratch with a spear point meant
infection and death. Do you know what the incedence of death from
battle wounds is today? one percent, a hundred years ago it was 80
percent. The population grows and the productivity of the earth
decreases."
"In a forseeable future we shall be smothered by our own numbers. Only
birth control could save us, and that is one thing that mankind is never
going to practice. It is a cosmic joke. Preoccupation with survival has
set the stage for extinction."
Doc:
"Indeed there have been species which became extinct thru their own
miscalculations, but they were a species with a small range of
variability. Now consider the lemming: What do lemmings do when their
population exceeds the food supply? Whole masses of them swim out to sea
and drown, until a balance of food and population is reached. Is the
lemming migration a disease? Is it a memory? Or is it a psychic
manifestation forced on part of the group for the survival of the whole?
Disease, infection, down almost to nonexistance? But tell me, are not
nuerotic disturbances on the increase? Are they curable or does the cure
spread them? Do you suppose that the tendancy toward homosexuality
might not also have a mathmatical progression? And could this not be the
the human solution?"
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