Russian novelist Fydor Dostoevsky warned against utopian dreams four-decades before the communist revolution. Dostoevsky wrote humans cannot be satisfied with an unlimited supply of food, comfort, and pleasure. “If you satisfied every human desire, we would throw it all away just for something interesting to happen, just to give ourselves a challenge to overcome and prove that we are human beings…that man is still man and not keys on a piano.”
During the 1960s and 70s, there were several alarming experiments conducted on rodents. The most famous of these experiments was 25 Universe. The results read like the most tortured of Russian novels.
Universe 25: The Mouse “Utopia” Experiment Apocalypse
The experiment
Four pairs of mice were placed inside Universe 25. The environment was designed to minimize mortality. There were no predators. The mice had access to a limitless supply of food and water. The weather was maintained at a stable 68°F (20°C). All precautions were taken to prevent disease.
The rise, fall, and extinction.
At first, population numbers double every 55 days. The population reaches 620 before during the 12 months. The population continues to grow, but the doubling period extends to 145 days. The population peaks at 2200 during the 21st month of the experiment.
2,200 is well below the facility’s capacity of 4,000. From this point on, population numbers decline and reach extinction during the fifth year of the experiment. Similar experiments using both mice and rats were conducted prior to and following Universe 25 with the same results.
Escalation of behavioral anomalies leading to extinction in Universe 25
- A few alpha male mice formed harems
- Non-dominant males separated themselves into competing gangs
- Large numbers of the population became docile, neurotic, autistic, and withdrawn.
- Incidence of violence erupts for no apparent reason
- Violence levels increase and become normalized.
- The population voluntarily gravitated towards over-crowding
- Sexual activity increases and becomes compulsive
- But population numbers flag
- Infant mortality reaches over 90
- Males cease to protect females or the young
- Females became more aggressive
- Females first neglect and then abandon their young
- Incidence of males indiscriminately raping both males and females
- Rare Incidents of cannibalism
The well-groomed exception: “the beautiful ones”
- A small band dubbed “the beautiful ones” isolate themselves, away from the violence and over-crowding. There is little sexual activity amongst them. Rather, they spend their days grooming each other.
Note: The expected lifespan of a mouse is 5 years.
The globalist utopia
Our ruling-elite gathered at Davos this week also have Utopian dreams and are conducting their own experiments-on us. The curated list of three-thousand invitees includes politicians, media moguls, academics, and billionaires. This is the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
The Davos delegates live as kings of old never dreamt. Like the mice experiments ours is the age of super-abundance. Humankind has all but defeated the scourge of scarcity and consigned the short, brutish life, described by Hobbes, to history. The humblest of supermarkets and corner-stores overflow with food from all corners of the globe. In the palm of our hands, we hold all the knowledge ever recorded. Every variety of entertainment is instantly available to us. There are no health conditions that doctors cannot diagnose and treat; nor physical pain we cannot deaden. Ahead of us is the horizon of endless possibilities.
Towards Extinction: behavioral abnormalities
The behavioral abnormalities in Universe 25 are uncomfortable to read. Not least because of the similarities they share with our world. We also choose to over-crowd in ever growing metropolitan zones and mega cities. Twenty-five percent of internet searches are related to pornography. We suffer from high levels of anxiety and mental health issues. Family and moral standards decline as our political interactions become fractious.
Over recent decades, the earth’s expected population peak is trending down. We are now expected to peak below ten billion. Our current global fertility rate of 2.4 hovers above the replacement rate of 2.1. However, in the developed world and beyond, we have fallen well below replacement. The average rate for the European Union, the USA and China hovers around 1.5 to 1.6. Whilst in South Korea, the rate is at an astonishing low of 0.7 and falling.
Were the rest of the world to follow South Korea, the path to human extinction would lie open, rendering moot the agenda at Davos.
The population peak we expect to reach is trending down. It is likely to fall short of ten billion. Our current global fertility rate of 2.4 hovers above the replacement rate of 2.1. However, in the developed world and beyond, we have fallen well below replacement. The average rate for the European Union, the USA and China hovers around 1.5 to 1.6. Whilst in South Korea, the rate is at an astonishing low of 0.7 and falling.
Were the rest of the world to follow South Korea, the path to human extinction would lie open, rendering moot the agenda at Davos.
Grooming and isolation
Grooming and Isolation.
The Davos elite display the same, rodent like, obsession with grooming and self-isolation. They employ barbers, tailors, and manicurists. And engage publicists, speech writers and digital marketers to monitor and fine tune their image. Exactly like the “beautiful ones” they choose to live isolated from the masses. When they travel, it is first class or private jets from one exclusive location or gated community to another. They live in their own detached, protected bubble.
“Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad,” anonymous.
It is a fertile environment for phantoms to flourish. During the Covid-19 pandemic, when we were all confined to our homes, the WEF published an economic recovery plan, The Great Reset initiative. It came ribboned with an alliterative mantra of “build-back-better.” Government officials and legacy media could not stop repeating it. This was when leading bulletins and front pages featured new Covid strains with unknown potential. The middle pages reported on detainment camps, new social credit systems, new central bank digital currencies and increasing levels of surveillance and censorship. Coupled with rounds of lockdowns and then vaccine mandates predictably sparked suspicion.
The WEF would publish an article titled “how eating insects could reduce climate change.” They would argue for the desirability of cattle extinction. WEF Founder, Klaus Schwab, would notoriously state that soon “we will all own nothing, eat bugs and be happy.” It is the welcoming speech befitting a POW camp commander spelling out the conditions of your permanent confinement.
You do not need a university degree in 20th century history to know where this pattern of war, fear, lies, and censorship leads to.
They would sooner rule in hell, than serve in heaven
We are someway down the path to hell. Whether they bullied us into it, or whether we drifted into out of boredom, either way, we are unmoored from the rituals that sustained meaning and sanity. Family, morality, religion, community, or country are no longer primary. In their stead, we display fidelity to political correctness and identity politics: gender equality, gender fluidity, race, privilege, and climate change. All our social interactions are now a test of loyalty. None compliance signals a reflexive correction. All that is required to maintain this regime is the occasional public pillorying.
The last thought goes to the creator of Universe 25—John Calhoun
“there is no logical reason why a comparable sequence of events should not also lead to species extinction. If opportunities for role fulfilment fall far short of the demand by those capable of filling roles, and having expectancies to do so, only violence and disruption of social organization can follow.”
Like the rodents in Universe 25, we are neither grateful nor contented. Instead of famine, we die from excess. Instead of joy, we feel anxious, depressed, disconnected, and lonely. Our social interactions are punctuated with consuming alcohol. We have the convenience of avoiding the stigma of an illicit drug habit by maintaining a medical prescription regime. Where none of that works, there is always online pornography and social media angst to escape from ourselves.
The Davos crowd is not immune. There is little sign of contentment and less of gratitude. The agenda this year is much the same as the preceding years. The looming catastrophe of Climate Change remains the keynote topic driving diverse discussions on the degradation of the environment, energy policies, and fifteen-minute cities. There are sessions on the state of geopolitics and security threats. And hype about AI, its impact on the future of jobs, and even the threat that sentient word-processors will soon overrun the world.
Stagnant economy overwhelmed by debt
Below the slick performance, the Davos crowd is riddled with anxiety. The global economy is stagnant and overwhelmed by decades of irresponsible debt and currency expansion. As living standards wane, the critics’ voices grow louder. The unipolar moment, their time in the sun, fades into history.
A growing number of non-western nations are drawn into China’s orbit. This year Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, and the UAE become full BRICS members. China funds a vast number of investment projects across Eurasia, Africa, and South America, building highways, ports, bridges, and railways. For the first time in history, the western elite are excluded.
Hegemonic decline
We stumble from one crisis to another. The hysterical, and heavy-handed over-reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic was not an aberration. Since the war-on-terror, our rulers enrich themselves by launching fear campaigns, wars, and Ponzi schemes. From Sadam in Iraq, Gaddafi in Libya, to Assad in Syria. Putin and Russia are the latest iteration. They deployed the same fear formula in the aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis to bail out the banksters. Little wonder, the looming catastrophe of Climate Change continues to attract stubborn skepticism.
Washington and Brussels’ fateful decision to seize Russia’s sovereign funds was the last straw. The decision exposed the rules-based international order a sham. NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine, and the economic sanctions left a shunned Russia with no option but to turn to its eastern neighbor, China. Washington’s bellicose statements directed at China’s presence in the South-China Sea and Taiwan’s independence gave Beijing every reason to embrace Russian overtures.
Integrating China’s economy with Russia’s vast resources marks a tectonic geopolitical shift. The combined military and economic might and geographical proximity not only challenges Western hegemony but threatens to rapidly surpass it.
The decline of legacy media
According to legacy-media, none of this is happening, and if it is, it is of no importance. But who is listening to legacy-media? Their ratings continue to plummet as more of us turn to alternatives. Today, Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson are the most watched news programs in the world.
At Davos you will hear the cry of “misinformation,” “fake news” and “conspiracy theory.” All criticism is now misinformation peddled by far-right extremists, Putin puppets, hate groups, or domestic terrorists. It is these dangerous invisible forces that are funding alternative news and infiltrating social media platforms. The only way we can save our democracy, they tell us, is to enact punitive legislative censorship.
Following the war-in-heaven, in Milton’s Paradise Lost, the fallen angels convened a summit and vowed to never repent. They would sooner rule in hell than serve in heaven.
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