Governments still seem to believe that if they increase the price of contraceptives, fewer children will be born. 😂

But power fails to understand that procreation is not merely a biological function of the body; it is a question of consciousness, freedom, and existence.

Human beings are not merely animals controlled by seasons, food, and biological instincts. Human beings are consciousness capable of questioning their own existence, observing their desires, and even rejecting the necessity of life that nature has established within them.

Procreation is the continuity of life, but the necessity of procreation is not the truth of life.

The birth of a human being is not merely the arrival of a new body; it is the bringing of a new existence into the world—an existence destined to experience pleasure and suffering, desire and aversion, bondage and liberation, and ultimately, death.

Therefore, having children cannot be reduced to a matter of social tradition or economic calculation. It is connected to a profound existential question:

Must life continue to repeat itself, or does consciousness have the right to question this repetition of existence?

Nature repeats itself through procreation. Human beings are the carriers of this process. But when a human being recognizes this repetition through consciousness, they cease to be merely an organism imitating nature—they become a questioner of their own existence.

And this is where the question of love and liberation begins.

Without love and liberation, population is merely a number.

Your power wants human numbers because numbers provide labor, markets, consumption, and the continuity of systems of control.

But reducing human beings to numbers is an insult to their existence.

Your power wants boundaries—within those boundaries, the birth, labor, consumption, and death of human beings.

Your power wants control, because a free human being is difficult to control.

But love is not control.

Liberation is not control.

And consciousness is not the property of any authority.

The day human beings begin to see their existence not merely as a biological necessity to reproduce, but as an expression of free consciousness, the question of procreation will rise beyond population and become a question of philosophy.

— Ajay