INTRO!

This months blog (which is a bit late due to basic laziness) is about procreation and the misguided people who think it is the main purpose of life, and the possible reasons for this sort of thinking both positive and negative, in my uneducated opinion.

I have often heard people say that procreation is the point of life and at best been sceptical, at worst thought these people are talking complete s@!#, that being said without it (for the time being) human being’s obviously wouldn’t exist.

Now, before I start proper, I would like to point out that I have no kids myself, so some people may imagine a bitter and twisted middle aged man that’s been left behind in life with nothing else better to do than criticise anything and everything that moves, to those people I would like to say that I generally write these blogs for my own amusement, I am where I am in life for a number of reasons, and I have other things I could be doing but really can’t be bothered.

REASONS FOR PROCREATING. (real and possibly imagined.)

I suppose the first and most common reason is to basically start a family, a lot of decent well meaning people do this, some with more common sense than others but I would say that generally it’s a good thing, even if I have no experience myself and have no real idea what I am talking about. I suppose it is important to remember that there isn’t a rule book or instruction guide to refer to and like most things in life, the circumstance’s will dictate to the individuals involved when trying to raise a family. In regards to starting a family, in the UK and some of the other richer countries once you do it, you have to incorporate yourself into the system you live in to give your kid’s half a chance of having a decent life, tow the line, conform, this doesn’t always suit everyone and to be honest I look at this as a negative.

The second reason that I have heard on a number of occasion’s, and even had directed at me when I informed a female that I wasn’t interested in settling down or having kid’s was ” who is going to look after you when you are older ? ” This made me laugh because I am sure this is quite a popular reason even if a lot of people don’t admit it. I suppose when you think about it, if you are going to shit your pants or knickers, best to do it in front of a family member than a complete stranger, a bit selfish but understandable, I mean imagine the embarrassment. Also you hear stories about some of these care homes, not good.

This might be the opposite of a reason but it happens, pulling out to late, coming to early, faulty contraception, sex for the sake of sex, YES, the good old accident. plenty of lives have started this way for better or worse and I could criticise this sort of irresponsible behaviour but lets face it sex is as enjoyable as it can be selfish as far as I can remember and until the human race as we know it is replaced with genetically engineered nodding imbeciles you are not going to be able to stop people having sex.

Next reason, peer pressure, to look “NORMAL” to the rest of the world. Some people live their lives by bench marks as a sign of progress for themselves and people close to them, but have no real interest in doing the full job which can have catastrophic consequences for their partners and children, although that probably isn’t the worst case scenario as far as this reason is concerned but I’m not going to go into that, I will let you work that out for yourselves. I wonder how many lives have been ruined with this reason.

And the final reason I can think of, although I’m sure there are others is to keep a bloodline or family name going. This generally applies to people who live in castle’s and have family crests with Latin motto’s. Lucky them! In some cases though, probably involves some inbreeding.

I’ve thought of another! To save a relationship. This may or may not work, like 99.9% of the things I write about I have no idea, sounds a bit selfish and desperate though from the outside looking in. I suppose a nice cute baby can lighten the load and divert attention from people’s problems depending on how serious they are, like I said I have no idea. As for cute babies, in my opinion and this might show a lack of soul, a good percentage look like an assortment of dried fruit and extras from star trek, which of course is a matter of perspective.

I did have joke about cracks but I have decided to delete it, I have found to my cost that some jokes about women come at a heavy price.

I will stop there.

WILL HUMANITY EVENTUALLY HUMP ITSELF OUT OF EXISTENCE?

I honestly believe there is a strong possibility this could happen for a few simple reasons which I will list, I don’t see myself as a serious person, I joke about most things, but this I am serious about.

The speed at which the worlds population is growing is increasing. Every human being  has a limited and unknown amount of time on this planet which makes a lot of people selfish and act without thinking about the long term consequences, most people enjoy sex and will have it first and hope for the best afterwards, this will not stop, people like sex and see it as essential to their lives and even their health, which I see as a total bollocks and a basic excuse to justify their actions, if you like doing something just say that, don’t make excuses. So as I stated earlier, you will not stop people having sex.

So there we have it. 1) Speed of population growing at an alarming rate. 2) You will not stop people having sex. 3) People are living longer. 4) The planets resources and environment obviously have a limit and will be effected beyond repair if this situation goes unchecked, lets face it we’re turning our beautiful planet into a giant spinning turd. I’m not saying we’re at a dangerous stage yet, but things are only moving in one direction. It’s that simple.

Also, more people, more nutter’s, more potential victims, more chance of disease, more have nots = more chance of a complete and total disaster, or a group of totally unrelated disasters that could finish us all off. Remote maybe, but still a possibility.

POPULATION AND OPPORTUNITY. 

This isn’t just about over population it’s about how the way the world works in general and how they’re becoming incompatible with each other. I’m going to try and make this  as short as possible. We have mass migrations of people on the move for various reason’s, war and poverty (lack of opportunities) and they’re prepared to put their lives at risk for a small slice of the pie that is handed out to the lower end of society in other countries, they might not even get that and many people do actually die. That situation speaks for itself.

As far as I am concerned the world is geared towards a small percentage of people who want more than they need and are prepared to do anything to get it. And generally they do.

Put these two situations together and add it up with the disgruntled people who are having their small piece of the pie divided even more with no hope of change and there is a strong possibility we could have a situation that will end in chaos (in my opinion this has already started). It’s that simple, there are not enough decent opportunities world wide to give people the bare minimum to survive. More and more people are being born into this.

AND FINALLY.

Procreation is deeply ingrained into our thought processes which is hardly surprising  because this is how we exist, however like a lot of things just because we can, doesn’t mean we should, if anybody thinks that procreation is the sole purpose of life, you are obviously not aware of the vast amount of children that are abandoned around the world with very bleak futures and at the mercy of the worst sort of people, this situation occurs for a number of reasons, some unfortunate and some are down to reckless and selfish behaviour which amazingly is defended by people who break the boundaries of common sense, talking about lack of education, people like this do not help they are part of the problem. You don’t need to be educated to know that’s wrong, just to see it and know it can happen should be enough.

If you are going to create a life try and make sure it can have a half decent one.

Once I heard a bloke say that bringing another human being into the world is the most unselfish act, what a cock! This is another example of the sort of bollocks people tell themselves and others to fulfil their own ambitions for whatever reasons. Firstly this person, or any other for that matter can’t even determine their own futures let alone some one else’s. While some of us are born into better circumstances than others, from the moment we are conceived our lives are a complete lottery from beginning to end, with no guarantees.

I was going to end it here, but I have seen two programmes in two day’s that I thought I would mention, Ross Kemp’s excellent documentary (one of many) about Libya, showing the hardships that many people go through and the chances these people take to improve their situations with no certainties of success, which I think backs up some of my points.

The second programme was about privatised space flight and exploration with Prof’ Brian Cox, another good programme and a subject I am interested in. It was mentioned during this programme that space flight, exploration and colonisation is a possible solution to some of these problems which I would say is a possibility, but I also think that if humanity doesn’t change the way it thinks before we embark on these missions then we could end up with third world poverty, actually on a third world plus multiple spinning turd’s.

In my opinion privatisation is usually about greed.

I’m going to finish there, that’s my uneducated view on these subjects for better or  worse, until next time.

THE PIG.