One measure of that is that it is unsafe to live in the cities. When I
was a kid, we never locked the back or front door. Now, we have to
have bars on the windows and double cylinder deadbolt locks on the
doors.
What was causing the change? When the Earth becomes over-crowded, it
presses upon our natural resources and they become depleated. We sense
that over-crowding. As we all know in economics, when something
becomes too abundant, it loses value. It makes no difference what it
is; it applies to people as well as all else. As we become more
crowded, we each intuitively view the others with less compassion and
more disinterest, even hostility. We resent the hostile driver who
crowds us from behind or cuts in too close up ahead. We both feel
hostility.
And it is a hostility that grows. Now, we see "the too-many other
people" as having less value. What will it be like in years or decades
to come when we become even more crowded? We will see "the other
people" as having zero value. But it follows that things can grow even
more crowded. Then we must reach the point where we see "the other
people" as having NEGATIVE VALUE. Is that improbable?
It is already happening! Why else do people break down emotionally
under the strain, pick up a weapon and go out seeking to kill as many
people as they can? They are so stressed that they have no further
interest in living and want to die wrecking as much vengence as
possible on "the others" (society) which they blame (not unjustly) for
their misery.
Anyone interested in broadening their information on this subject can
find it in the the science of social evolution available by way of:
civilization-overview dot com
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