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Are there any end-of-the-world stories with the premise of humanity simply losing interest in itself and self-perpetuation rather than an apocalyptic scenario? The psychomechanics of the soft-landing would be interesting, especially when it’s down to the last few thousand.
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And I believe there's something like this in the prehistories of Burroughs' "Cities of the Red Night" trilogy; civilizations died off and were overtaken by groups infected with a whiteness/red hair virus that made them super-horny
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Hmm... basically impossible, for the simple reason that it would only take one gene or meme that preferred self-preservation for that to dominate. So author would either have to really not understand (/ deny) basic evolutionary processes, or come up with a damn good explanation.
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I think this is something like “subliming” from Iain Banks’ Culture books. Most directly addressed in The Hydrogen Sonata. Beautiful swan song of a book... RIP Iain :(
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