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There is an inevitable degree of 'delenda est' in this. Public health will never shrink. Executive government will never shrink. Taxation will never shrink. Anything that's linear is ultimately unsustainable- we will all eventually be civil servants paying 100% income tax with every single human behavior falling under public health guidelines. And as much as a lot of us want to howl "that's exactly the point of what they're doing," and I get that, it isn't sustainable if they were to achieve it. (There would be no purpose after a certain point.)

Massive population reduction as a goal is starting to seem less out there- there isn't really any other logical end game. What are you going to do with 8 billion slaves?

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That is the paradox. It will never change, and it is not sustainable are two truths which cannot coexist. That is the friction that is bringing all this to light.

Something must and will change, sooner or later.

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Since you mentioned Star Trek, I'm reminded of an episode my husband showed me years ago- I don't remember which series it was, he watched them all.

The Alien Planet of the Week had a society where something like 90% of the population were lawyers and everything in society revolved around litigation- even bartenders and stuff were licensed attorneys.

After the episode, as I often would when we'd see "theme alien" episodes, I started pondering how unsustainable that was. Eventually, if everyone is a lawyer, no one is a lawyer. Who's hiring all these lawyers if they're lawyers themselves? Are the people who are not lawyers the permanent underclass? If they're the only people that would need to hire lawyers, wouldn't they need to be wealthy for the whole thing to work?

And so on.

As to your statement, I agree that something must and will change, but I think we've backed ourselves into a place where it is a 'delenda est.' These systems have proven themselves resilient and designed to never shrink, reduce, or be mitigated..

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Science fiction, has been so correct, too many times. I will look for and read the novel.

Let us hope for an ending, versus an infinite loop, or at least an offshoot sequel.

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There is something very Hindu/Buddhist about this: seeking the elusive offramp from an endless, ultimately unhappy cycle.

Makes me think of BSG, for all its many (many many many) problems.

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But with massive population reductions who will all those petty bureaucrats order around and file reports on? Who will the MSM lie to? Who will all those IRS agents tax and audit? My guess is a lot of those jobs will be downsized and automated too as those who thought themselves safe realize they aren't essential either.

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Those petty bureaucrats are part of the population reduction.

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There will be no positive outcome if the premise continues as is, for they will eventually have to eat their own.

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Depopulation has been their goal for decades. It’s mentioned in many documents going back that far. Anyone who has any hesitation in believing that hasn’t done even an iota of research on it. They make no bones about their goals.

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