The Cerebral Is the Final Boss.What if population control never went away — it just moved indoors? Jay Conrad Stewart and The Jeantrepreneur trace a line from Thomas Malthus to your morning scroll, arguing that the real scarce resource isn't grain or water — it's your capacity to think for yourself. They unpack Timur Kuran's preference falsification, Eric Weinstein's N² Revolution, and the Dostoevskian cost of telling the truth in public. They ask whether AI agents are prosthetics for a cognitive function we broke or replacements for one we never widely had. Along the way: Michelangelo hiding from a pope who wanted him dead, soup thrown at Monet, the Enlightenment rivalry nobody taught you about, and a proposal called Neo-Godwinism that bets everything on human agency being the solution rather than the problem. Malthus worried about too many mouths. We should worry about too few minds.