There is talk. Of population collapses, of a depopulation agenda and it being a race against time to save the planet. As well as to get off and populate and colonise other planetary bodies with human bodies. It’s the only way, they say.

I can’t help but remember things I have thought of over the years when hearing of certain policies and events. That I realised would have a long-term effect on things, and now time has passed, I can see the effect. Even if it isn’t one I considered, I see how things may have played their part in contributing to the issues.

China with their one child policy for a while. India favouring male babies, and possibly not just India, they just weren’t shy about making it known.

Spain, Malta and Italy, England and Wales, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan are the lowest birthrates at the moment it is said. But it’s also noted some of the reasons. Of which I have considered and have already covered a few points in my article Leading to a State of Mind.

There have also been movie portrayals and ideas put forward in various formats for their being a decline in fertility or something that almost wipes out humanity, and we are left to survive on a shoestring. See my article They Tell Us.

But to go along with the ideas and societal strategies that have laid the scene, there also follows statistics, charts and projections which have fuelled the conversations around it. Namely the Deagle Chart, which shows the projections for populations around the world in 2025, showing a steep drop in many, leading many to ask what data they are basing that on, and what is the reason for making that public.

And we can speculate all we want, as I have done in articles On The Way Out and Downsizing, but I can help thinking there might be something else. Aside from the known agendas and what we think is going on, something quite extraordinary and different altogether…

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It’s been doing the rounds in the fashion world, and has popped up now and again as a theme in film and fictional ideas. The black goo or liquid. I’ll note some of the references that have come together for this idea.

X-files – the film, and was where I first noted its use all those years ago. When the ancient site was discovered and the kid fell down into the hole, his eyes then being shown as glazed over by black liquid after he was infected by it.

Prometheus – a black liquid that had something living in it, or was entirely an organism, it’s not specified what exactly it is. Just theorised that it was part of our origin, or of the other beings shown in that film.

Graphene – if you have seen the videos of how it moves, then you will notice it has the appearance of a black liquid, or slightly thicker like putty almost.

Black oil photography – this is where it seems to have become mainstream. With all sorts of ‘celebrities’ and known faces having it used for effect. It does look odd, choosing to have what is an oil spill as part of something expected to be nice to the eye. It’s art darling, you know. But there are those who wonder about it not being about just art, and it isn’t just a cool gimmick to entice people to buy their magazine, or concept. That there is something quite a bit darker to it.

For a slightly more tongue in cheek one, I think of one of the Creep Show episodes from back in the day, of a black slick in water (which really just looked like binbags), which stalked and ate a bunch of teenagers who were trying to enjoy a day on the lake.

Venom – the films where it appears a black gooey substance is how the force manifests to take form.

To me I always just thought it was an odd look, to go for a black oil slick, or tar look as part of an aesthetic, making it look slimy and dirty, rather than pleasing. Although I guess that’s a matter of opinion, some may find the images attractive, rather than disturbing or bland. And all of the other representations of it mentioned above that fall into the ‘fictional’ realm, do not have good outcomes, so I can see why it’s of concern to some people. And as we know, these are some strange times upon us, where we often get shown in advance what creepy and disturbing things they would like people thinking about and seeing just like in any Show and Tell routine. Stay sharp people, looks like the creepy isn’t slowing down any time yet…

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