NTGNTP (6th Draft): CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE Part 1.6.0

6. The coming decades will be a time of increasing unrest driven by mainly economic factors. Indicators exist across the social spectrum. Natural instincts have been driven toward the decadent and nihilistic. The young have become disillusioned before their time, making their outlook old and tiresome. Among the desensitized, apathy is resultant and widespread. Energy is channeled toward entertainment, not survival. Self-destruction has taken many forms, and may be accomplished at different rates for the same end result. Many ignore these trends, or dream unworkable solutions that do not tackle real causes. Topical ointment will not heal a wound to the belly. Survival requires sight, preparation and desire. This civilization has largely dulled these instincts in favor of comfort and security. These people will die with the herd. Like the fabled Lemming, the human species may possess instinctual mechanisms to check overpopulation. The big brain requires more stimulus to render the job, than merely marching over cliffs. Of course, the real difficulty may lie in a natural impulse operating in the anti-natural technological world. Suicide should be cleaner...