>>22810000
like the stock market. think about the evaluation of financial speculative mental gymnastic concepts as "collective optimism in the market", in the same sense as you can think of the evaluation of prime breeding stock as "collective optimism in the nation/race/civilization/species"

consider the fuckin following; INDIA, motherfuckin jeetland
birthrate has dropped below replacement

true to form, nothing ever happens, but we're the lucky few to exist in the waning years of a golden age soon to be plunged into darkness (WE personally won't see this shit, it'll happen over the next 3-5 generations) there will be a great collapse, a new renaissance, and in 2525 [insert cleopatra 2525 intro song reference here] some morally and principally disenfranchised but materially and physical and financially comfortable corpo flesh-slave in a vat being used as a fleshnode in the terran empire's p2p drone warship program that is conquering fucking outer space, is going to think back to our times, just like your ass is contemplating the fall of the roman empire after a long day in your cubicle, truck, whatever the fuck you do and a few drinks deep and making the best of every moment you can before it's back to work tomorrow