Pop! ulation (2)

So what's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear or read the word "Pop"? Just wondering. Has nothing to do with the rest of the post.

If you didn't read the prior post "People u lation 1", this one might not make as much sense. Maybe it won't make any sense anyway.

The really big populations (India and China) are starting to get to the point that they are having a consuming middle-class. They're going to be wanting all of the junk that Americans (and Europeans, too) have had for so many years. Just think of how great it will be to have another billion or so cars driving around. Of course, that may not matter much, since the world is running out of oil (more on that in another post).

Anyone remember those psychological experiments that they did with rats and population density? I think it works on people too. Too many of us in too little space, and we all go nuts and kill each other. That's what the rats did. They gave them all the food and water that they needed, but not the space. Star Trek had an episode on that one (in the 60's-not that wanky Star Trek of the 90's).

So what do we do? How to deny the humungous profits to multi-national corporations just waiting to take over the world? Eliminate Baywatch. That's all it will take. It's one of the most popular TV shows of all time, from what I've heard. Get rid of that, and no one will know any better. Or, just wait for the major disease, violence, starvation, and other things that will eventually kick in to try to take care of the problem. Oh, Benny Hill too-well whatever.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see a reality to the corporate control of the planet-ala books and movies (not that it isn't that way now anyway) (1984, Rollerball, Handmaid's Tale, etc.)

Soylent Green is People! (do you think the band Green Day got its name from that movie?-unfortunately no. They aren't so clever-it seems to have come from something about smoking illicit substances). But Duran Duran, at least can claim to get their name from "Barbarella".