Clearly the demographics of countries are radically changing. All over the world, excepting parts of Africa, people are living longer and women are having less children in a lifetime. From a conventional point of view this is a disaster because there are fewer working age people and more old people to support. That’s transparently nonsense, like the overwhelming majority of contemporary received wisdom.
The economy determines how people live. Children used to work from an early age to help support the family and adults worked until they dropped. Now, thanks to the industrial revolution, children are kept in education for as long as possible because there only need to be a small proportion doing productive work producing food and keeping infrastructure going. On an individual level children and old people are a financial burden to a family unit but on the macro level this is meaningless. Money is printed and crises invented that “must be solved” to create and destroy demand . It’s all bullshit and magic. The lockdowns proved most people are engaged in futile tasks merely to create demand and destroy production.
Consider that the Pyramids in Egypt were a technology of social control. Building and maintaining the pyramids allowed the society to function and flourish until, as with all things, the complexity and maintenance became too much. Now the Pyramids stand as marvels produced by a bygone age for mysterious purposes, when truly there’s nothing mysterious at all.
Anyone who hasn’t read Philip K Dick’s novel “V.A.L.I.S.” should do so, if only to ponder its central thesis: that we live in biblical times but the Devil has overlain our current perceived reality on the events described in the Bible. There is no new thing under the sun. For all the insane imaginings of the transhumanists, people are born to live and die searching for the meaning of their lives and many of them are driven functionally insane by the process.
We’re not living in the end times. We’re living as people have always done, from moment to moment in the eternal now.
I searched for form and land
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazeless stare
At all the millions here
We must have died alone
A long long time ago