Each order sows seeds of its own demise.
When there is religious fundamentalism, there is reckless reproduction. This leads to a situation in which there is a very large young population, which does what young people do best – rebel. These young people challenge the existing order and subvert it to more liberal attitudes.
When there is a lot being done for causes such as civil rights and women’s rights, we see many people in these groups becoming mean, arrogant and abusive, resulting in them losing the support of people who are in favor of better treatment of these groups.
Neither has to happen, but it happens anyway. And these things need to be taken heed of in order to wield correct influence.
Probably the most clear-cut example to illustrate this is 1950s and 1960s. The baby boom of the 1950s was followed by the social upheavals of 1960s. There were too many children being born, and they had a very spectacular youth revolt that continues to influence the world even as to now. This was then followed by religious fundamentalism of 1980s and 1990s, creating a large population with ultra-conservative values that keeps trying to recreate 1950s, with in many cases disastrous results.
Why are these results disastrous? Because there are too many children being born. More children means more mouths to feed and more people to raise. It also means more people challenging the status quo, however good or bad it may be. There are too many children, then there are too many young people. With such dynamics going on, conflict is inevitable.
Policies need to be created with brains. Limiting all personal fulfilment to raising children will create too many children, who when they grow up will – and should – rebel. Their parents aren’t thinking of them, they are thinking about what is pushed by the Ayatollah. They are tools for the agenda of power and hatred, and they have every right to object to being used as tools.
In Virginia drivers’ classes, they teach what they call defensive driving. People are taught to look out for other drivers’ mistakes and do their part to avoid them. Social policy needs to correct for the choices of the influenced, both ones deliberately influenced and ones non-deliberately influenced.
That being done, correct changes stand to be made.