How Does One Break the Cycle, Part Ii

...Where smart people once had more kids, now they barely have them at all, many who have kids don’t plan it, which often leads them to a fall. The smart are bored and distracted, the instinctive breeding like flies, the science that the smart folks built ensures the mutants do not die. This process just keeps going on until those who sustain nations can no longer shoulder the load, can’t uphold civilization. Then it all comes falling down, the crash into a new dark age, and worst of all I’m not sure if there is even another way. We can’t just leave the weak to die and still call ourselves moral souls, it’s just not in human nature to leave them all out in the cold. Some believed education could help to inform their points of view, but time has shown we’re powerless to raise a person’s base IQ. Some say that the computers will bring us to singularity, well that might be great for machines, but that is not humanity. The one thought that scares me the most, in this age obsessed with ‘progress,’ is that evolution knows that too much advancement leads to death, that the shortcomings of success, the apathy of decadence is a threat to our survival, we can’t have too much advancement, that the cycle is a strategy to ensure we don’t dissipate, that we need collapse and chaos, and all mankind is bound to this fate. God, I hope not…