“Why people become useless” is “not a mystery,” said Jordan Peterson. “It’s easy to be useless. The mystery is why that doesn’t happen to everyone all the time, and the answer is we build up extremely careful structures of societal discipline to encourage people to adopt long-term responsibility. And when you allow those structures to collapse or you undermine them, you get the default. And the default is useless, the default is short-term gratification.”
Journalists struggle to find causes for todays worldwide population collapse.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/new-birthgap-film-shows-how-explosion-in-childlessness-is-driving-population-collapse/
"In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. "
-- James Monroe, speech to the US Congress on December 2, 1823