It should be pointed out that, here in the sand, there is a weird affliction that sends a lot of people down the path to Talkingclaptrapland and this oracle of misinformation (more on his religious platitudes at a later date) was well over half-way there, under the blazing sun, in his taxi all day and night, without the meter running because he didn’t have one, making up the fare, off the cuff.
Some sort of deluded pride and ignorance then set him off on a cock and bull story involving 50% of those 200 million Bangladeshis being millionaires while everyone in the West is as poor as a church mouse.
Bullshit aside (it becomes truly tedious after a while, not to mention confusing) he did get me thinking and so I decided to check the facts. According to www.indexmundi.com/bangladesh the official population of Bangladesh is in fact 164 million people, still a colossal amount of people in such a small space and rising by 2 million a year - roughly the population of Slovenia.
With this in mind, after a brief mental glance through the history books, it soon becomes evident that man doesn’t get on with fellow man. History is pretty much one long litany of violence continuing to the present day where technology allows the death and destruction and mutilation, etc, to be filmed and televised on a daily basis; background war with the coffee and toast.
Delving further, let’s go back to when man came down from the trees and stood up on his own two legs, branching off from his relatives in the ape family, doing his own thing without Granny Gorilla looking over his shoulder.
When tribes began to roam, forage and hunt, shocked to come across other tribes doing exactly the same thing, in a different language, they beat the crap out of each other, just as the skinheads used to do in my youth, travelling to East Peckham on the bus to have a dust-up with the skinheads there, first with fists, then with wooden clubs and stones, progressing onto sharp metallic objects then explosive metallic projectiles that did the job of inflicting death faster and in greater numbers. Such is progress, although peace on earth, as wittered on about by most religions, has yet to rear its amicable head.
As soon as the atom was split a nuclear Armageddon could put an end to the whole sorry business once and for all (little used so far) but now we have drone warfare that resembles an arcade game that only Americans are allowed to play: blow them up on the other side of the planet, switch off and go home for a barbecue with the wife and kids; modern warfare from an open-plan office, water cooler in the corner; pension and luncheon vouchers in the Pentagon's cafeteria included.
Today 7 billion people swarm all over planet earth, still not getting on with one another. 75 years ago there were only 2 billion humans! By 2030 there will be an inconceivable 9 billion! So, in that case, as empirical evidence tells us, all this conflict will simply increase (just look at Africa and the Middle East for the most violent, modern day examples of neighborly hatred) through lack of elbow room, the enemy next door, or in the spare room.
The problem doesn’t end with basic hostility because even now there is not enough work for 7 billion people, there is not enough food and not enough drinking water – the Gulf states use their oil to boil the sea, for Christ's sake! So how can an extra 2 billion people ever be sustained?
Compounding the misery further, this rise in numbers will also, naturally, lead to a rise in:-
Greed - “to be rich is glorious” a short-sighted Chinese communist leader once told his 1.4 billion people. Ha-ha, the irony! All of them stacking the cash?
Theft – from pickpocket to banker.
Murder – and its accompanying traits of jealousy and hate.
Perversion – too much and too depressing to list.
Religious fanatics – many of whom advocate huge families to spread the word.
Man Utd fans – doesn’t bare thinking about. One is too many.
Vehicles – car salesmen and burning oil.
Plastic – the oceans are already full of it.
Capitalists - more people means more consumers. Eg. China is seen in a positive light as a GROWTH market!
Bullshitters.
Morons in general.
I could think of more but can't be bothered as it makes me depressed.
In conclusion, I have no idea what the answer is … wear a condom?