"Death By Utopia"

Behavioral Sink

It happened about 50 years ago - and it is very similar to Soylent Green, and today

Turmoil all over, human DNA in foodstuff, voluntairy euthanasia and so on ...

Once upon a time a group of scientist decided to create a mouse utopia and they named it Universe 25.

Eight lucky mice, 4 males and 4 females, were put in Universe 25 which had everything they wanted. They had all the food they wanted, all the water they wanted, all the bedding they wanted, lovely mouse apartments to live in and no predators.

It didn't take the 8 mice long to realise what a great place they were living in and pretty soon they were doing what any mouse would do in the same situation - they had one massive 24/7 party.

By the 560th day those 8 mice had multiplied to 2,200 mice.

... and then, by the 600th day, something odd happened ...

The male mice didn't need to protect their territory and felt worthless. As a result they became angry and aggressive at this and formed into gangs, that would attack each other.

Rape, sexual deviance and cannibalism became common. The females had many miscarriages and those that hadn't were useless mothers, often dropping their babies or forgetting about them altogether.

Then the males went from shagging anything that moved to a disinterest in sex and spent their times eating, sleeping, drinking and preening themselves, ignoring the females, who got more and more angry and violent.

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Because of this, the females turned more masculine since the males became more and more feminine. Any mice that were being born, were born directly into this madness, this insanity, and did nothing to change it because, well, they knew no different.

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Eventually the females mirrored the behaviour of the males: eating, sleeping, drinking and mainly preeing themselves without the urge or want to procreate - outward appearance became the norm, the only norm, the 'beautifuls', cut off from direct social contact.

As a result, slowly but surely, the population declined, yet, the mice still acted the same, until, one day, there were no mice left, not one - and Universe 25 was no more - it self-destruct.