RE: There is no limit to growth...
It is my belief that Behavioral Sink applies to humans as well as rats. It likely applies to all sentient creatures. When a population is taken to their respective utopias (food, warmth and shelter) violence and conflict subside. It is only the inequality and unbalanced distribution of wealth that leads most populations to violence among one another, as a rule, in my opinion.
Our level and efficiency of productiom at this point in our history would allow us to bring a utopian lifestyle to all the world's population yet the value placed on profit in the capitalist system thwarts that utopia for the majority of our species.
We may find that the many forms of spirituality are roadmaps to lead us to that utopian lifestyle and offering a faith that it is possible in the next word if not this one. That thinking probably lead Mao to consider religion the opiate of the people. 😎
Oh and since you're a fan of Norwegian rats >:D
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-stirring-story-of-how-alberta-became-the-first-place-in-the-world-to-banish-the-rat
Good old Albert-a
I respect you input. I especially respect you making a good fight for socialism and Maoists. We really have no idea in the Western World/Hemisphere (or even Turkey west all the way to the Pacific Coast of North America) how those types of government work. We aren't there to witness it as citizens and we can't take the things we see in the news as fact. In fact, I was raised to think that propaganda was just a mural of Lenin in a viaduct where the TVs and iPhone screens are running propaganda with noise 24/7. I looked underneath a lot of this surface existence and I for see some pretty wild solutions ahead only because of roots in common law, pre-Roman religious practices that gave communities and identity and extended all the way to the Middle Ages where Free Imperial knights took feudal rights directly to the imperial immediacy of the Emperor - drawing an identification from it via the responsibilities owed to the Emperor in personal service or event in charitable, voluntary payments to the Emperor. The privileges of those knights was a turning point too. Another thing one could identify them self with - their rights - even without the concept of a nationality driven state (in a secular sense) having come to practice yet... I see where we are now, where Italy was, where Austria is headed as practices that built off as indirect successor state like countries of expulsion/immigration... expel a monarch, put up a republic, emigrate from Portugal to the US and go all the way back to Austria someday with full citizens rights. The opposite of being "stateless" ... anyway, what I'm getting at is you sure nail it with the exploitation of capitalism and socialism. But the unrest of both probably benefit each other long term because you see the patterns. Once the most powerful Houses of Europe went into exile, it proved that there must be more than just chaos driving the patterns of succession and exile. Someones pretty generous "religious" in that they obviously had to care about human beings (humanism) to give up all the riches and authority in the world... But maybe there's a supreme overlord I have yet to meet keeping everyone honest.
Maybe that overlord is Assyrian and speaks Neo-Aramaic these days?