Mike Corey

So the empire was consciously,

reduce the population of India through controlled famines on a periodic basis over two centuries.

And then it would say, well, that's just the way it is.

If we weren't the most fit to survive and the Indians were, they would be the ones dominating us, overseeing our depopulation.

So it's not that way, is it?

Thus, come on, you know, metal meets the road.

And the other thing too is I would say Darwin in his own autobiography admitted that he derived his theory of a world of diminishing returns where the strongest survive and thrive and adapt and the weak perish by reading Malthus' essays on the principles of population, which is a 1799 essay that Malthus published.

as not an objective scientist or a social scientist, the way he tried to portray himself to be, because the man himself was a teacher at the Haleybury College, which was the official college that would train all of the British East India Company administrators.

So it is the official college of the British East India Company that he was a disciple of,

trying to create some theory of overpopulation and how to act preventatively on future crises of population overrides, right?

Because he was like, oh, the mathematical law that he discovered, which was never a law,

was that populations, human populations, will always grow geometrically while agriculture always grows arithmetically.

Thus, you could foresee, if you extrapolate current trends into the future, where the one, the population, will override the resources to sustain our people, and thus the wise, enlightened,

administrator of this dismal science as it came to be known by people who were also his followers, like his students, like Ricardo and John Stuart Mill and James Mill.

They called it the dismal science because it was like, these are tools.

This mathematical ratio becomes a way to then use, as Malthus says, the gifts that God has given us

famine, war, the plague, to organize controlled population reductions before we hit that crisis.

Flatten the curve.

That's the, you know, so that's like some disgusting stuff.

It's all in his first edition of his, of his essays on population.