Hello everyone and welcome to another post in my series dealing with the issues of modern society. In this paper I am going take A Look At Human Nature Through Two Societies. In that work there are 18 chapters that explore our current world situation in detail and look backward through history to discover how we ended up in this mess of extinction level threats.
It is a lengthy paper, so I will break it down in sections. Here is the first installment, more to follow soon!!
A Look At Human Nature Through Two Societies
One - The Issue With Believing
I spent many years building business teams using behavioral profiles to place people in positions that suited their personalities and natural skills. In terms of Myers Briggs profiles, I am an ISTJ, an introverted thinker who seeks to come to conclusions and make sense of things. I am very logical and process driven, and my primary point of view is the future. That makes me a much better planner than accountant, not from the standpoint of a lack of accounting knowledge, but from a natural point of view. I might use accounting, but I use it not so much to analyze the past as I do to predict and improve the future.
I am also a Libra. I have social skills, and have been described as being obnoxiously charming. The point is that I am logical and optimistic by nature, one who wants to find the future being peaceful and full of promise, which is probably why I enjoy writing adventure romance novels.
That is what made this endeavor so challenging. The deeper my research took me, the more obvious it became that there was no easy, rosy path into the future. There is no going up from here without going a long ways down. We took a wrong turn and we’re going to have to go backwards and pick another road to travel on.
I can create an accurate analysis, many people have. I can also create solutions, when you understand the nature of problems, solutions are usually obvious. Whether people use them or not is another issue, but creating logical solutions isn’t difficult; that is what made me a good consultant. The problem in our current situation is that every solution I could hypothesize was also found to have tremendous social, political, economic, or legal opposition. There was no easy path forward. I couldn’t find a way for us to avoid horrific pain, and the base of the problems, in my opinion, is that our set of core beliefs is untrue. What we believe has put us in a place where our society is collapsing.
How would you feel if what you have been told, what you built your belief systems around, were shown to be untrue? How would it make you feel to be clearly shown that the authorities in your life were misguided? Up was down, in was out. How would you reconcile yourself to that revelation? Most people respond to this kind of conflict with either denial, even in the face of evidence, or disorientation. Our nature does not easily accommodate having our most cherished paradigms refuted.
As you read this paper you may well find yourself in that situation. I encourage you to open your mind to the possibility that the sorry state of affairs we find ourselves in is actually an indication that we’ve gotten it all wrong. Consider that perhaps what we have been told isn’t true, and the proof is right before us.
One of the strangest aspects of human nature is that when something isn’t going well we often increase the effort we put into the behavior that created the problem. For some reason we are so rooted in our beliefs that we would rather do more of what isn’t working, than step back and look at why it may be performing perfectly, but have the wrong design.
Large problems originate with big errors, and the solutions are always difficult to implement. When we’re talking about problems that threaten extinction, the issues are usually insurmountable. Why discuss them then? Because there is always a remnant, and the future will be built on understanding the mistakes of the past.
Two - What Did We Do?
While the subject of disasters and end-of-the-world scenarios have always been with us, today we are faced with threats that are not the plots of science fiction, they are real, and eminent. Most of my writing is romantic adventure fiction, intended to be entertaining. This paper, and a few others I have published on my website, are much more sobering. I know they aren’t as much fun to read, but I feel compelled to help people discuss the issue we face, and reach through those conversations to find solutions.
At the risk of arresting reader enthusiasm for taking the time to study this paper and consider the opinions I offer, I thought we might start with a snapshot of a few of the more serious threats we face in 2025.
*We are on the brink of a war unlike any we've seen before. Switches will be flipped, technology will be employed, other technology will collapse, and all of the destruction of World War Two will happen in a matter of a few weeks. In the aftermath, the modeling shows the numbers of dead will approach two or three billion people, 340 million in North America.
*Super resistant bacteria is projected to kill more people by 2050 than does cancer.
*Chemical and plastic particle contamination. Recent studies indicate commonly used drugs like hormonal birth control and acetaminophen are now resident in the water supply and are known to lower testosterone and fertility in humans and other animals. 40% of the world’s rivers contain dangerous levels of pharmaceutical drugs.
*Falling fertility rates. In the 1800s American women had seven children, of course many did not survive. Today the number is 1.7 and falling rapidly. Biological replacement is 2.55 surviving children before a woman reaches the age of 30. At one child per woman, it takes only four generations for the society to become extinct.
*The United States has $150 Trillion in debt and unfunded liabilities and a GDP of $28 trillion. That is a debt to GDP ratio of 535%. Globally, debt is more than $318 trillion, 328% of all economic activity. It is generally understood that a manageable debt to GDP ratio is about 60%.
*Due to the practices of industrialized farming, food processing, and the use of hybrid seeds, nutrition levels in food has declined dramatically in the past sixty years. The result is a dramatic increase in diseases associated with nutrient deficiencies and lower fertility levels.
*Autism is rapidly rising. Once considered a rare disorder, in the 1960s it was diagnosed in 3 cases per 10,000 children. Today that number is 1 per 31 school age children in the USA. The increase in diagnosed children rose 12.5% in the two years between 2020 and 2022. The effect this will have on society is unknown. Factors such as the ability to maintain relationships and how many children they have indicate potential issues as the numbers rise significantly.
*While the statistics can be difficult to analyze, abortions are increasing. One of the challenges with gathering statistics is the use of telemedical chemical abortions. Nineteen percent of abortions are performed using pills prescribed online, meaning there is no medical exam.
*Diagnosis of gender dysphoria in teenagers increased 209% between 2016 and 2019. Today, .6% of adult Americans claim to experienced gender dysphoria as opposed to 1.4% of teenagers, a 231% shift in four years. While adults claiming to be transgender are 1:235, teens claiming to be so are 1:71. It is unknown what effect this will have on society, but it is well documented that gender dysphoric individuals participate in much higher risk behaviors than non-dysphoric populations, and it can only be surmised that it will have an increasing effect on infertility. How much is an unknown since it is generally observed that this trend is socially influenced by the popularity of the status and may fade in time.
*Studies indicate a 79% increase in early-onset cancer over the past twenty years. At the current rate of increase, which seems to be holding, by the year 2050 there will be a 240% increase in global ANNUAL cancer deaths in the period of time between 2012 and 2050.
*The escape of a pandemic virus from laboratory research is almost certain. According to the National Institute of Health publication, I quote: “the likelihood of at least one escape from 10 labs in 10 years becomes 91%, almost a certainty.”
In that same paper, a comment specific to a “planned National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas estimated a significantly higher escape risk, over 70% likelihood for the 50-year life of the facility”
In another statement from that paper, it says: The risk of a man-made pandemic from a lab escape is not hypothetical. Lab escapes of high-consequence pathogens resulting in transmission beyond lab personnel have occurred. The historical record reveals lab-originated outbreaks and deaths due to the causative agents of the 1977 pandemic flu, smallpox escapes in Great Britain, Venezuelan equine encephalitis in 1995, SARS outbreaks after the SARS epidemic, and foot and mouth disease in the UK in 2007. Ironically, these labs were working with pathogens to prevent the very outbreaks that they ultimately caused.”
That paper, published in the National Library of Health, titled “The Consequences of a Lab Escape of a Potential Pandemic Pathogen”, was written in 2014. How prophetic, given that we know for certain that the COVID-19 virus escaped from such a lab in Wuhan.
As sobering as that list might be, if we don’t face our issues we will never find solutions, and as I will discuss herein, waiting for an end-times apocalypse, or for quantum computer-driven AI to solve our problems is not a solution.
https://vscampbell.com/2025/06/a-look-at-human-nature-through-two-societies
Next: I will share some of my background so you can understand my perspectives.