Civilization is Mass Dysgenics

 Industrial scale dysgenics.

 

 "In a civilized context, a lot of those men need to be allowed to have families or they won't cooperate, and then you have a problem, because civilization depends on mass cooperation."
 https://twitter.com/ItIsHoeMath/status/1871978740961759295/

 From the horse's mouth, so to speak. 

 

 Long term vs. short term. You can have a civilization for a few centuries, but at the cost of the race capable of having a civilization. See: china. See: india. See: greek and italian IQs. 

 Civilization, in and of itself, is woke.
 Barbarism is better.
 There are third options, involving cooperation and responsibility. Naturally this may be scuppered, due to being impossible to reach those options from here in the underworld. The dead can't be alive.