Michel Houellebecq. The ability of the island (№ 155937)

The only purpose of humanity is reproduction, procreation. Although this goal is clearly insignificant, it tends to it with incredible tenacity. People are unhappy, deeply unhappy, but continue by all means to resist any attempts to change their destiny: they want children, and children like themselves, to their own hands to dig his own grave and forever keep the terms of your own unhappiness. When you offer them rolling thumb the way, go the other way, necessarily met with fierce opposition, and we must be ready for it.