The world contains eight billion people. With that many people, a lot of stuff is bound to happen in a short period of time. But I never imagined we would see a worldwide police state quarantine everyone in their homes and mandate life-ending poison all while initiating World War III over Ukraine's right to shell civilians in Donetsk.
Things are getting really weird. Italy has fewer births today than any time since its founding in 1861. Not just per capita, there are physically fewer babies born this year in Italy than in 1861. Before all those technologies that improved crop yields, before all those manufacturing improvements, materials improvements, medicinal improvements, transportation and communication improvements, and computer and internet improvements, which should have made life much easier to begin in Italy today than it did before. Why are we incapable of doing before what we could once do with much less? Why can't we support the same population in 2023 as we could in 1861?
When I initially wrote '100 Waifus,' I knew the world was coming to an end, but I didn't anticipate how bad it would get how quickly. How stupid humanity really was. This new chapter 59 tries to address that gap in knowledge. With an update on how Earth's history went from bad to worse, I tie the fictional ending of the world by Muslim terror 70 years from now into the current cause of the end of the world, which is plain immorality. I say that one couldn't have happened without the other, so in the end the only cause that mattered was the immorality itself.
Another fun statistic to chew on -- 42% of Americans are now officially obese, and of course that number only continues to rise. It's no wonder sex is declining in America, who would want to do it with such disgusting pigs? Personal immorality leads to societal decay, and societal decay leads to aggressive outsiders who take advantage of anyone who shows weakness. Now the story all fits together again.
I'm proud of this new chapter's ability to sum up the entire history of the entire planet in a few pages. I don't think I left anything important out, and I think the conclusions you can draw from that history are exactly the conclusions Shiori Amysnth did draw from it. Everything I believe is based on my understanding of history, which I studied more than any other topic both inside school and out. If people understood history like I did, we wouldn't be having all these problems. Saying that the most important trait in a person is their knowledge of history, though Shiori is a little biased on this front, is not far from the truth. From that knowledge all good behavior germinates. The demigods' decision to choose life partners who understood history, and thus would understand good governance, makes perfect sense given they're the established heirs to the dynasty and will indeed be governing someday. It all fits together neatly.
The U.N. now projects a lower total sub-saharan African population in 2100, but '100 Waifus' continues to insist that the world's population is going to be overwhelmed by these folks. Should I change that detail in the book too? I don't think so. I'm not confident in the U.N.'s change of heart, it seems based on false hopes. I also don't think any accurate census in Africa is possible. We learned recently in Papua New Guinea that there were actually twice as many people living there as we thought. I believe something similar is occurring in Africa, and there's no way the U.N. could possibly ascertain the real facts on the ground. Furthermore, at least in my story, the Muslim religion continues to gain converts and takes over Africa, and Islam encourages the subordination of women which necessarily leads to high birth rates, so given that Muslims take over, the population of Africans is destined to explode in exactly the manner I described. One part of the fictional history explains the other.
Do I think Islam really will convert half the world by 2100? I don't know, but it's certainly possible. And given that the world had to end somehow in my story, this is as good a reason why as any. When you have one side of an argument insist they are right (Islam is confident in itself), and another insist it is wrong (the West despises itself), it would make sense for the people who insist they are right to convert the people who insist they are wrong. It would be weird if that didn't happen. I'm not the only person who prognosticated thusly, Houellebecq wrote an entire book about that himself called Submission. If a famous and popular author can say it and get applauded for it then so can I.
But not only does this new chapter cover the entire history of the world, both bad and good, and the important philosophical insights that can be gleaned from said history, it also has a lighthearted and spirited father-daughter bonding moment, which shows how fun quintuplets could be, and how happy parents could be to have had them together. It also shows how the mandatory marriage law works its wonders without ever having to be invoked, proving its necessity and efficacy. Writing that section of the chapter left me with a goofy smile I couldn't wipe off my face, because I was just so happy thinking about how great they all were together. How right their relationships felt. If this is indeed the ending of the tale (who knows, maybe I'll think of another great thing to add in, though I have no idea what that might be), one that leaves you with a giant smile is not a bad way to go.
I wrote the entire chapter in one session yesterday, and have been going over and editing it a few times since. When I woke up yesterday I had no plan to add an additional chapter to '100 Waifus,' but the idea sprung up in my head and I decided it was worth a shot. I think it was worth the shot. I think this new chapter can stand proudly as an equal to what came before, that it adds to the value of the whole, and that it definitely belongs as part of the best book ever written from here on. The best book ever just got a little better. I'm still burnishing my legacy, the offering I wish to present to God upon my arrival at her seat of judgment. No matter how few readers agree it's a good story, the only reader that matters in the end sits atop a throne in Heaven. But it would be nice if people here, on this blog, enjoyed the new content as well.
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