Mignon's political notes 1. Population overload

Mignon’s political notes – what I would change if I ever became president
Reasons we cannot achieve social stability:
1. Too many people.
2. Unhealthy family environments (immature parents)
3. High divorce rates
4. Sexual liberation
5. Untrustworthy government
6. Indiscriminate media
Today I’m focusing on 1. Too many people.
I live in a city. There are people everywhere. Competition for schools and jobs are fierce. Crime occurs like clock-work. It kind of makes one feel insignificant. It’s suffocating. You start caring less for other people because you need to preserve your personal space/sanity. I returned from the United States with smiles for everyone but realized it wouldn’t work because it’s exhausting to smile at so many people in a day, and if you smile at them they talk to you, and if they talk to you you’re obliged to listen and invest time and emotion into this new relationship that you hadn’t wanted. You simply wanted to smile at people so it’d brighten their day. At least this is my case. I’m too polite to flat out ignore someone.
In the city, there are more youths who think it’s cool to listen to songs about murder (ex: Bloody Valentine) and draw death related pictures. (Okay, I admit, I love that song, but it doesn’t mean it’s right.) Because there are too many people we withdraw into our own little minds. Our instincts know that this density threatens our very survival, so we must lessen the population. It automatically turns to desensitize ourselves from the deaths of others, so we won’t value lives so much, sometimes not even our own. Our logical side tells us that there are too many people, that in order for our society to be stable there must be less. Our in-between self is perplexed, isolated, hurt and feeling extremely powerless.
We have this famous science fiction author in Taiwan (or is it Hong Kong?) called 倪匡who writes excellent books (I wish they’d translate his work into English, he’s that good). In one of his works he mentions that mice drown themselves by the hoards when they become too crowded, and that society is not ideal because there are too many people fighting for resources. If what he says is true (I have yet to confirm it. He is, after all, a science fiction writer), why don’t humans have a self-destruct mechanism when threatened by lack of space and resources (ie: wealth, creature comforts, food, living space, jobs)? I believe we do. That’s why city people don’t care about someone being smooshed by a train in their own city, that’s why so many people commit suicide.
What I find a little disturbing is the fact that couples or single females who have less to offer their offspring find it necessary to have a lot of children. If married couples who are not well-off decide to have one or two, they would be adequately populating the world with their share of genes. I believe the growing gap between the rich and poor is also caused by the reluctance of the rich to reproduce aggressively (thus keeping their fortunes intact) and the poor reproducing at copious amounts (spreading an already meager inheritance).
That doesn’t mean I believe the rich are better parents and the poor bad ones. By “less to offer their offspring” I’m also pointing to a healthy family environment (with time to be with the kids, mature parents who don’t have psychological crutches).