But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you're enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today- and promise population control tomorrow.

Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities.

If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.