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A listener has asked to break down low birth rates like your Aristotle. Well, I can certainly

break down, I don't know exactly how it would be like Aristotle. What am I AI? No, just I.

But it's certainly worth a discussion.

This is going to be a lengthy but very powerful discussion, so here is the situation with birth rates.

So as you know, across the developed world, in general, among the higher IQ native population, birth rates are down to

absolutely catastrophic levels. It's like civilization is a virus that kills reproduction.

Civilization can be viewed almost as an antibacterial or an antibiotic or something

like that, except it kills healthy cells, not cancer or viruses or bacteria. In many ways,

of course, you can look at civilization as an autoimmune disorder, which attacks healthy cells.

So the question is, how is it possible that success is failure?

How is it possible that the staggering wealth that we have accumulated over the past couple of hundred years,

let's say 200 years, the staggering wealth that we have accumulated should be an extinction

event for so many civilizations. And don't kid yourself. Like it is, I hate that sort of phrase, it's an

existential crisis because it's overused. But it is. But it is. If you have a birth rate as some

East Asian countries have of 1.2, I mean, you're basically wiped out in a couple of generations. I mean, the story of

humanity is a million years old, and birth rates in the last 70 years or so have collapsed

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