There is also the counter argument, one advanced by the PCF in the 1960's (it may surprise many that Maurice Thorez, at his wife's behest, was against abortion), that population control was a tool wielded against the working classes to limit their power.
</humble acknowledgment of compliment.> Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
Apart from a vague sense of More is Good and Less is Bad, I'm not sure there's much of an evidence of a masterplan.
If anything, looking at the Right in the US it's clear that these people are deeply, almost pathologically confused, and detached from mainstream consensus reality.
For instance, some of these fools actually thought it possible to not only be welcomed as liberators in Irak, but that with enough proselytizing zeal, the conversions would be right on the heals of liberation; thus is this dominionism of roughly a quarter of Americans - those quarter who supply so many of the troops for America's overseas adventures - so well aligned with the empire-building aims of America's elite.
It might be added that this state of affairs is not unlike what most of the rest of the West looked like before the enlightenment, and gives a certain appreciation, for example, of St Bart's day.
Of course, the fight doesn't always have to be against external foes, ie Thorez' point. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
We're going to need to reformulate economic and social policies in such a way as to support a declining population because this always more people model I cannot see lasting.
----- 'It depends on which research report you read,'says Hattie, 'and sorry about this, but I do tend to believe the ones that suit me.'
Welcome to the Eurotrib, JQL. Hope to see you posting more in the future.
