INSANITY No Families, No Children, No Future (OP Dec 2020)

Troke

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No Families, No Children, No Future

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OCTOBER 22, 2020|2:39 PM
ROD DREHER

Here’s a fascinating article from New York magazine on the massive gender gap between Trump and Biden supporters. It contains this eye-popping claim, buried deep down:

Neither the societal shift away from traditional gender roles nor the downstream cultural consequences of that shift are anywhere near complete. As Rebecca Traister has incisively argued, the growing prevalence of singledom among America’s rising generation of women is one of the most potent forces in contemporary politics. In 2009, for the first time in history, there were more unmarried women in the United States than married ones. And today, young women in the U.S. aren’t just unprecedentedly single; they also appear to be unprecedentedly uninterested in heterosexuality: According to private polling shared with Intelligencer by Democratic data scientist David Shor, roughly 30 percent of American women under 25 identify as LGBT; for women over 60, that figure is less than 5 percent.

David Shor is one of the best data people the Democratic Party people has. Take this seriously.

Has anything like this ever happened to any society, ever? Three out of ten women under the age of 25 consider themselves to be gay or transgender. Five percent, sure. Maybe even eight percent. But thirty? Will they always think that? Maybe not, but these are their prime childbearing years. The US fertility rate is at a 35-year low, and there’s no reason to think it will rise. Some critics blame structural difficulties in the US economy that make it harder for women to choose to have children, but European nations make it vastly easier for mothers, and still cannot get their fertility rates above replacement.

What’s behind this is primarily cultural. We have become an anti-natalist society. And further, we have become a society that no longer values the natural family. We see everywhere disintegration. Yesterday, on the Al Mohler podcast, I talked about going to a conservative Evangelical college a few years back, and hearing from professors there that they feared most of their students would never be able to form stable families, because so many of them had never seen what that’s like.

And now we have 30 percent of Gen Z women claiming to be sexually uninterested in men. There is nothing remotely normal about that number. It is a sign of a deeply decadent culture — that is, a culture that lacks the wherewithal to survive. The most important thing that a generation can do is produce the next generation. No families, no children, no future.

In 1947, Carle C. Zimmerman, then the head of Harvard’s sociology department, wrote a book called Family And Civilization. He was not a religious man; he was only interested in the cultural values that allowed civilizations to thrive, and those that caused civilizations to collapse. His general thesis is that family systems determine the strength and resilience of a civilization. Zimmerman wrote:

There is little left now within the family or the moral code to hold this family together. Mankind has consumed not only the crop, but the seed for the next planting as well. Whatever may be our Pollyanna inclination, this fact cannot be avoided. Under any assumptions, the implications will be far reaching for the future not only of the family but of our civilization as well. The question is no longer a moral one; it is social. It is no longer familistic; it is cultural. The very continuation of our culture seems to be inextricably associated with this nihilism in family behavior.

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The only thing that seems certain is that we are again in one of those periods of family decay in which civilization is suffering internally from the lack of a basic belief in the forces which make it work. The problem has existed before. The basic nature of this illness has been diagnosed before. After some centuries, the necessary remedy has been applied. What will be done now is a matter of conjecture. We may do a better job than was done before; we may do a worse one.

He wrote this in 1947. Zimmerman missed the Baby Boom coming, but otherwise, he was right on target.

Earlier this year, David Brooks wrote a big piece for The Atlantic in which he observed that we are living through the most rapid change in the structure of the family in human history. In the piece, Brooks writes:

Eli Finkel, a psychologist and marriage scholar at Northwestern University, has argued that since the 1960s, the dominant family culture has been the “self-expressive marriage.” “Americans,” he has written, “now look to marriage increasingly for self-discovery, self-esteem and personal growth.” Marriage, according to the sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, “is no longer primarily about childbearing and childrearing. Now marriage is primarily about adult fulfillment.”

Sex is also primarily about individual fulfillment — and maybe solely about individual fulfillment. Young people today see no connection between sex, family, and a greater purpose. I wrote about this more or less in a 2013 essay, “Sex After Christianity,” that remains one of the most read pieces I’ve ever published here at TAC. In his book, the sociologist Zimmerman, in listing the signs of a dying civilization, mentions a decline in family formation and a rise in homosexuality. Again, he was not a religious man, but his social science convictions led him to conclude that from studying the historical records of ancient Greece and Rome.

It’s far too simplistic to say “homosexuality brought down Rome.” Homosexuality didn’t mean the same thing in those societies that it means in ours. More importantly, the idea is that the greater tolerance for and acceptance of homosexuality was an indicator of the collapse of the shared belief that forming families to produce the next generation was the most important purpose of the civilization, and that a culture’s structures and norms should be constructed to support that mission.

We are going to have to endure a civilizational collapse before we begin the Great Relearning. I am beginning to see now why a sociologist I heard speak a few years ago said that losing awareness of the gender binary is going to mean the end of us. He meant that we will lose cultural memory of the basic fact needed to ensure the future of our civilization. We are living through the fall right now. This is why I wrote The Benedict Option. The newer book, Live Not By Lies, is about enduring acute marginalization and persecution; the older book is about constructing a strongly countercultural community capable of surviving in the ruins of our civilization.

Thirty percent of women aged 25 and under have no interest in sex with men. If that does not alarm you as a religious traditionalist or conservative, then you might actually be dead. We absolutely must form right now — not tomorrow, right now — communities that socialize our children into the goodness of marriage and family. The broader culture knows what it believes, and it preaches this confidently. The churches are barely pushing back. And it shows.

UPDATE: A number of readers have pointed out that the “B” in “LGBT” — bisexual — is probably doing a hell of a lot of work in that 30 percent number. This is probably true, but it doesn’t really change much. I’m not sure how many men would want to partner with a woman whose sexual desires are so unstable. I would never have wanted to date a woman who identified as bisexual. How many women would want to date men who identified as bisexual? So, I will withdraw my “not interested in sex with men” claim, because “bisexual” could cover “open to sex with both sexes,” but I maintain my point about this being a decadent and deeply destabilizing finding.

UPDATE.2: A Gen Z female reader writes:

First off, I agree with some of your viewers who say the statistic you shared in your recent article (title above) is probably in part skewed by the increasing number of young women who identify as Bisexual. But I feel that they fail to grasp the entirety of the situation by dismissing that statistic. It is, as you said, alarming, for a variety of reasons. I spend a lot of time on social media interacting with other young women my own age, and many of them, even in the Catholic circles I follow (I am also Catholic) increasingly identify as either bisexual of some degree or at least “a little bit queer” (their words- not mine). Wiser heads around me have proposed that this is in part due to female sensibilities naturally being more capable of at least considering romantic attraction to the same sex (as opposed to a straight male) but even that is only, in my opinion, part of the reality.

In truth, there is a kind of increasing self-aggrandizement that surrounds this idea of identifying as any type of LGBTQ. It’s a social marker that puts you in the ‘in’ crowd. It makes you cool, it makes you one of the crowd. It also makes you ‘safe’. Let’s dive more into that last one.

First off, I see this happening more and more the farther back we step from the #MeToo movement. I want to reiterate, I am female- so my thoughts here are not coming from any kind of male perspective or male-influenced perspective. But I have seen an increasing number of women swear off dating, swear off marriage, swear off kids, and especially, swear off men, in the last several years. (I’ve also seen the other side, where many women are decrying the lack of decent men to date, or decent men to marry, but that’s a whole other discussion) The Anti-Men crowd, in my honest opinion, is a new wave of Neo-Feminism that not only wants to ‘crush the patriarchy’ but also wants to be able to move in a circle where men are not just optional, they’re completely unnecessary. These New Feminists are also increasingly gender-fluid, and welcome (with open arms) male-to-female Trans Rights Activists into their ranks.

Being Female doesn’t mean the same thing to them as it does to you or I- it means living a life of glitter and thunder, where all the worst female stereotypes marry an anti-child, anti-family worldview and deliver to the world a crowd of superficial, sexless persons who carry the banner of “Woman” without knowing what it might mean. They’re Pro-Abortion, Pro-Sex (but the kind that ‘counts’) and Pro-Trans Rights (because “Woman” is a tag-line, not a biological reality). In this reality any Man who isn’t an ‘Ally’ is the enemy, and men in general are very optional, can be easily replaced, and should support them and their increasingly hard-to-pin-down perspectives/interests in every way possible. A man looking for a wife (or children) isn’t going to find any prospects in the Neo-Feminist crowd, because these women don’t care about those things, they care about progressing an agenda that they’ve created. Ever wonder why so many people thought Hillary Clinton was the be-end-all of women’s rights in the U.S.? I know you probably know, but that sentiment wasn’t coming from conservative women.

Those are the extremists. They control the narrative. For conservative girls (even Catholic ones) trying to make it in a world being controlled by these groups is a dangerous prospect. You either have to be rigidly anti-culture and know when to keep your mouth shut (I adhere to this sentiment) or you have to have some cards to play that will let you weave through the lines. The “Bisexuality” card is one of those cards, in my opinion. The second you prescribe to any LGBTQ identity you become “safe” in the Neo-Feminist lens. Even if you are religious or conservative and won’t ever act on same-sex attraction, ‘being Bi’ is enough to allow you to participate in the show without getting dragged for being an ‘old-fashioned female’ or ‘being controlled by the patriarchy’ (I sometimes wonder, as an aside, what some of these people think patriarchy means). It’s a convenient truth, and as others around me have mentioned, almost any woman with an imagination can be a ‘little bit Bi’ without too much effort.

Those that do this are mostly unaware that they are tacitly living lies. Most are entirely convinced of their LGBTQ status, but it is telling that they are dabbling at best in same-sex relationships, and that many cast off that status as they get older. But in the moment, it is such a marker of “Pride” that they celebrate it and act like it’s everything to them. I have a Catholic friend who recently ‘came out as Bi’ and her social media announcement about it was all about ’embracing’ this incredibly important part of her identity. I can’t help but wonder how much of that is just a filler for something deeply broken inside, with some of these women. They’ve been hurt too many times, by secular men, by the culture, and by increasing pressure from a narrative they never asked for, and so they cling to these ‘identities’ as a way of replacing something that is broken.

But as all who live by lies know, eventually those rotten cores will crumble, and there will be an emptiness left that almost nothing can fill. I have another friend who is going ‘Non-Binary’ after years of only identifying as female. She has hopped full on the Trans-Rights Train, and likely won’t be getting off anytime soon. But she’s not a stereotypical female, and somehow, deeply, it feels to her as though she can’t be ‘fully woman’ if she doesn’t fit those check-boxes. Again, the Neo-Feminist narrative says that being a woman is all about High Heels and Bloodlust against the ‘patriarchy’ (i.e., conservative society, marriage, and traditional family structures), and if you can’t be both of those things, then you’re just not a woman anymore.

I saw a line in a TV show last night that made me think about how this narrative is really shifting. (I was a little hesitant to say what show it was from, for fear of revealing my ‘nerd’ card- but then I remembered that this another of one those areas where I don’t need to fear for my own identity. I’m very proud to be both anti-cultural and anti-female stereotypes.) The line came from Naruto Shippuden, Episode 337-

“You gain nothing when you attach your self-value to something external that’s admirable and praiseworthy to you.”

(Itachi Uchiha, the character who says this line, was speaking quite literally to a series villain who had, through experimentation, literally attached other beings abilities and powers to his own self (and self-value)- Japanese anime is incredibly surreal sometimes) But what a line for our times. This is literally what is happening in so many circles of our society. Otherwise normal and rational people are attaching their self-value to externals- and they gain: absolutely nothing.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative. He has written and edited for the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. Rod’s commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children. He has also written four books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Crunchy Cons, How Dante Can Save Your Life, and The Benedict Option.

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People are always asking after our children so this Xmas we sent out a letter outlining their status. Two retired, rest gainfully employed, 21 grandchildren etc.

I was a tad surprised at the responses about families. Two sons over 40, not married. Four kids, two grand children. Four children over 50, nobody married. Three children, three grandchildren.

No need to look for a conspiracy to eliminate the White race. It is doing perfectly well by itself.
 
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20Gauge

TB Fanatic
I have two kids and the wife has two from before we got together and all told there is only one grandchild.

All white, actually very white background.

Oldest is Daughter at 31 this year and youngest is about 28 this year.

So yeah we had them all real quick......
 

ivantherussian03

Veteran Member
I have often thought family systems are the key. Having them or not having them explains a lot. I see it my life and see the lack of them In others. I see the strengths and weaknesses of how my parents raised me. I have made an effort to correct those errors, and increase the resilience of the next generation.
 

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Troke, I’d appreciate it if you would set the quoted text off somehow. Either with QUOTE tags, INDENT tags, or italics. This as a courtesy to others.


I decided to edit your post to show you exactly what I mean.
 
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Melodi

Disaster Cat
This author is obviously not aware that in most times and places, including Victorian England or America in the 19th century; the majority of female interactions and friendships were expected to be with - other women.

In fact, "the romantic friendship" was so popular in Victorian England that it is pretty much impossible for modern Literature folks to figure out how might or might not have actually been "gay" by modern standards. Most of the relationships were probably platonic in fact but the language used would be reserved mostly for actual lovers these days.

I also suspect that if you asked many ladies of the past, married or unmarried you would find that in the days before birth control, the medications for yeast infection or proper post-Patrum treatments after giving birth; that after a couple of glasses of wine with the girls at least 30 percent would say something like while they love their children and their husbands, the whole sex thing was something they simply had to put up with to get there.

Again, that doesn't make these women "gay" but most traditional societies, again including 18th or 19th century England and the USA were "Homo-Social" women formed firm and intense friendships and support networks with women and men with men.

Now that said, yes there really is a problem during this current time period that is similar to what happened among upper-class Romans in that children are now a financial liability rather than a positive and many people (increasingly the majority) are starting to make individual decisions that reflect that.

You see it everywhere from Japan to Sweden (or the USA or Ancient Rome) whenever children become economic burdens rather than economic positives people start limiting the size of their families. Also when the "rewards" of marriage/partnership are seen as being less than being single, people will stop pairing up or at least a percentage will stop forming households.

But that said, while many women enjoy sex and have a great relationship with their partners, a disinterest or actual avoidance isn't uncommon. Heck, when we moved to Ireland 25 years ago NIghtwolf was shocked at how many middle-aged married folks had separate bedrooms.

For decades divorce and birth control had both been illegal, so in a lot of families,the "tradition" was simply to send the guy to the sofa after a certain number of kids were born.

"Brace Yourself Bridget" was something of a joke ("What is Irish foreplay?") but like a lot of jokes there was just enough truth to it to make it not all that funny.

The difference now is that instead of getting married anyway, pretty much because they felt they had to (my Mother's generation) young people often simply don't bother anymore.

There is also the complication of virtual reality making the actual reality of interacting with live human beings and potential partners more difficult but that's for another thread.
 

Troke

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Addition, brother has one child also 29 years old. No grandchildren. Never will have as she is insane and in jail. Literally.

Long story.
Man that leased my ancestral farm about 1949 had wife, redhead and absolutely stunning. Was riding with them to some place or another and it came up in the conversation that she had just visited her mother in the institution. Huh? Turned out the entire family ( 4) except her was in an institution of one type or another.

This was back in the days when they had such institutions. The ACLU busted that claiming no jury trial to lock up. The legislatures, hot to save money, closed them down and guess what: Street people.

They eventually divorced. Turned out she marched to the beat of a different drum too and he could not put up with it.
 

Ragnarok

On and On, South of Heaven
This author is obviously not aware that in most times and places, including Victorian England or America in the 19th century; the majority of female interactions and friendships were expected to be with - other women.

In fact, "the romantic friendship" was so popular in Victorian England that it is pretty much impossible for modern Literature folks to figure out how might or might not have actually been "gay" by modern standards. Most of the relationships were probably platonic in fact but the language used would be reserved mostly for actual lovers these days.

I don't buy that for a second. And the bolded sentence negates the other two sentences.
 

Troke

On TB every waking moment
This author is obviously not aware that in most times and places, including Victorian England or America in the 19th century; the majority of female interactions and friendships were expected to be with - other women.

In fact, "the romantic friendship" was so popular in Victorian England that it is pretty much impossible for modern Literature folks to figure out how might or might not have actually been "gay" by modern standards. Most of the relationships were probably platonic in fact but the language used would be reserved mostly for actual lovers these days.

I also suspect that if you asked many ladies of the past, married or unmarried you would find that in the days before birth control, the medications for yeast infection or proper post-Patrum treatments after giving birth; that after a couple of glasses of wine with the girls at least 30 percent would say something like while they love their children and their husbands, the whole sex thing was something they simply had to put up with to get there.

Again, that doesn't make these women "gay" but most traditional societies, again including 18th or 19th century England and the USA were "Homo-Social" women formed firm and intense friendships and support networks with women and men with men.

Now that said, yes there really is a problem during this current time period that is similar to what happened among upper-class Romans in that children are now a financial liability rather than a positive and many people (increasingly the majority) are starting to make individual decisions that reflect that.

You see it everywhere from Japan to Sweden (or the USA or Ancient Rome) whenever children become economic burdens rather than economic positives people start limiting the size of their families. Also when the "rewards" of marriage/partnership are seen as being less than being single, people will stop pairing up or at least a percentage will stop forming households.

But that said, while many women enjoy sex and have a great relationship with their partners, a disinterest or actual avoidance isn't uncommon. Heck, when we moved to Ireland 25 years ago NIghtwolf was shocked at how many middle-aged married folks had separate bedrooms.

For decades divorce and birth control had both been illegal, so in a lot of families,the "tradition" was simply to send the guy to the sofa after a certain number of kids were born.

"Brace Yourself Bridget" was something of a joke ("What is Irish foreplay?") but like a lot of jokes there was just enough truth to it to make it not all that funny.

The difference now is that instead of getting married anyway, pretty much because they felt they had to (my Mother's generation) young people often simply don't bother anymore.

There is also the complication of virtual reality making the actual reality of interacting with live human beings and potential partners more difficult but that's for another thread.
I think it was the economist Schumpeter who back about 1941 wrote that when people start realizing how burdensome and expensive children are while receiving little recompense for having them, they will stop having them.

Took 80 years but sure looks like we are on the threshold of his prediction.
 

Melodi

Disaster Cat
I don't buy that for a second. And the bolded sentence negates the other two sentences.
You don't have to buy it, look it up - I actually heard that from interviews with English literature teachers and several people who specialize in 19th century English literature.

And I have read bits of it, ladies writing each other with phrases like "my darling so and so, my heart beats with anticipation at our reunion, which shall surely come with the Spring Flowers" and stuff like that.

I also noticed in South America that women were ALSO encouraged to have those sort of intense relationships and women anthropologists working in the Arab world undercover as wives of male anthropologists (under cover so they could fit in with the wives) noticed the same thing.

Platonic in terms of no actual sex, but everything else from jealousy, competitiveness, who "loves" whom the best etc...

Along with true companionships, support,and other really good things.

Just because you have not experienced it, does not mean it was not or isn't true, it just isn't common in modern 21st-century mainstream culture anymore.
 

Troke

On TB every waking moment
You don't have to buy it, look it up - I actually heard that from interviews with English literature teachers and several people who specialize in 19th century English literature.

And I have read bits of it, ladies writing each other with phrases like "my darling so and so, my heart beats with anticipation at our reunion, which shall surely come with the Spring Flowers" and stuff like that.

I also noticed in South America that women were ALSO encouraged to have those sort of intense relationships and women anthropologists working in the Arab world undercover as wives of male anthropologists (under cover so they could fit in with the wives) noticed the same thing.

Platonic in terms of no actual sex, but everything else from jealousy, competitiveness, who "loves" whom the best etc...

Along with true companionships, support,and other really good things.

Just because you have not experienced it, does not mean it was not or isn't true, it just isn't common in modern 21st-century mainstream culture anymore.
Based on the Victorian Lit I have read, I tend to agree with you. Feminine relationships came across as much more intense than modern times.
 

NCGirl

Veteran Member
You don't have to buy it, look it up - I actually heard that from interviews with English literature teachers and several people who specialize in 19th century English literature.

And I have read bits of it, ladies writing each other with phrases like "my darling so and so, my heart beats with anticipation at our reunion, which shall surely come with the Spring Flowers" and stuff like that.

I also noticed in South America that women were ALSO encouraged to have those sort of intense relationships and women anthropologists working in the Arab world undercover as wives of male anthropologists (under cover so they could fit in with the wives) noticed the same thing.

Platonic in terms of no actual sex, but everything else from jealousy, competitiveness, who "loves" whom the best etc...

Along with true companionships, support,and other really good things.

Just because you have not experienced it, does not mean it was not or isn't true, it just isn't common in modern 21st-century mainstream culture anymore.

Having lived amongst Arabs I can tell you it's true! Even if there is no sex, and sometimes there is... there is intense feelings, fights, jealousy, break-ups and drama among the women! and the men!
 

Faroe

Un-spun
Despite the flowery language and intensity (which has struck me as somewhat forced), most weren't having actual sex with their female friends. They were getting married and raising traditional families. The artistic Dada coffee house crowd wasn't the norm.
 

Jubilee on Earth

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Well, let’s just hope that this demographic will die out since they aren’t procreating. Maybe we can reset that before we kill ourselves off as a species.
 

mecoastie

Veteran Member
My mother is one of seven. All of the 7 were or are married. Those seven had 15 kids. Youngest is now 30. Those 15 kids now have 19 children. May be a shot at a couple more but that is questionable. Of those 15 kids only 9 are or were married. My father is one of three. All 3 are married. Those 3 had 7 kids. Youngest is 32. Those 7 kids have 7 kids. Of those 7 kids only 3 are married. I think a lot has to do with marriage. It isnt as important.
 

raven

TB Fanatic
we really need a great, great, great depression . . . and a great, great, great invasion . . .
going to have to be spectacular in order to get peoples attention though.
really, really big
 

Maryh

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I was an only child and had 6 children. All of them married but two later in life. They have only given me 7 grandchildren. I do think they were slacking as I was hoping for 36! Three of them have children and the other three don't. Of those three, two girls married in their 40's and one boy is 32 and they are trying to get "financially secure." What a bunch of hooey!!!!
 

The Mountain

Here since the beginning
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And those of us who can, and/or have, expatriated to countries with more traditional mores are creating "monasteries" of morality a la "Canticle for Liebowitz".

Leaving the collapsing "Empire" for a place where life can still be lived in the proper way. Much like that newly-discovered Roman villa in England likely was; a former Noble or extremely wealthy merchant fleeing the implosion and likely imminent destruction of his wealth and livelihood.
 

WildDaisy

God has a plan, Trust it!
I am an only child. I have an only child. But my husband is one of 9 and I have 52 nieces/nephews and great nieces/nephews. Last one was born four weeks ago. And oddly, in his family, the girls are predominant. There are 10 boys, the rest are girls.

Even my son cant find a nice girl and he said the same thing. He said Mom, I don't know whether the girl I like is really a girl in transition, likes girls or straight."
 

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Otherwise normal and rational people are attaching their self-value to externals- and they gain: absolutely nothing.
This because it is "attachment" and not internal.

It makes them feel good - but when they can't be consistent in their attachment, they feel bad.

The only way to feel good is to find that within you which you celebrate.

Many humans simply don't.

I very much celebrate my equinity. It does have its downsides (i.e. lack of opposing thumb) but those don't concern me. In many ways my nature is my release.

I never have to worry about balancing a check-book for instance.

Dobbin
 

PghPanther

Has No Life - Lives on TB
and in other news............

70% of all women under the age of 25 refused to give up on men when they find a spider in their bedroom....

" Whose going to do all the bug squashing for me??.......they claim.

Whilst saying to their man........"Ohhh.......be careful honey that spider can jump if you don't get it the first time..........ohh watch out............Noooo.........not in my bed.............I'm not going in this room until you show me you killed that thing...........!!!"

Later...................

"Here honey here it is..............ohh get that thing out of my face.................go flush it down the toilet.....now go do it right now I don't want to see that thing"
 
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PghPanther

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I think it was the economist Schumpeter who back about 1941 wrote that when people start realizing how burdensome and expensive children are while receiving little recompense for having them, they will stop having them.

Took 80 years but sure looks like we are on the threshold of his prediction.

The money changers managing the money supply through inflation made it increasingly more difficult to afford children over the decades since the fed reserve bank formed in 1918......especially with a one income family.......forcing the wife to work and less children as a natural result of that as well.............and the taxation on the responsible to pay for breeding of the irresponsible others was in the works as well to reduce the traditional citizenry of this country........all of this by design I might add.
 

Hognutz

Has No Life - Lives on TB
The money changers managing the money supply through inflation made it increasingly more difficult to afford children over the decades since the fed reserve bank formed in 1918......especially with a one income family.......forcing the wife to work and less children as a natural result of that as well.............and the taxation on the responsible to pay for breeding of the irresponsible others was in the works as well to reduce the traditional citizenry of this country........all of this by design I might add.
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Kris Gandillon

The Other Curmudgeon
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The money changers managing the money supply through inflation made it increasingly more difficult to afford children over the decades since the fed reserve bank formed in 1918......especially with a one income family.......forcing the wife to work and less children as a natural result of that as well.............and the taxation on the responsible to pay for breeding of the irresponsible others was in the works as well to reduce the traditional citizenry of this country........all of this by design I might add.
Just for sake of accuracy, the Fed was signed into existence on December 23, 1913 and by November 16, 1914, the 12 cities chosen as sites for regional Reserve Banks were open for business.
 

hunybee

Veteran Member
the numbers the article states are fairly accurate in my experiences.

the younger the age group, the higher the percentage of one claiming lgbt, with the 30% mark being the highest.

it goes far beyond lgbt though.

lgbt is a consequence, for a time.

after a while though, it become a cause.


this is far, far beyond a one topic cause for the state of society now. but with all things, the bleed over from one thing into the other is strong. everything is very connected, yet if one takes just one thing out of the equation, it still does not fix it.
 

Starrkopf

Veteran Member
Read up on MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) There's other groups writing about this sort of thing too but the gist of it is that Women have been turned into a weapon to destroy society by removing the barriers that used to keep their innate hypergamy in check. It's like setting a fire and constantly pouring gasoline on it.

On top of that they put laws and other economic barriers in place to keep anyone lucky enough to even find a normal person that they want to start a family with from even trying in the first place. MGTOW is basically at it's heart men opting out from a game rigged against them from the start.
 

Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
I think it was the economist Schumpeter who back about 1941 wrote that when people start realizing how burdensome and expensive children are while receiving little recompense for having them, they will stop having them.

Took 80 years but sure looks like we are on the threshold of his prediction.
In urban America this is true because children are total liabilities. In rural America it's a slightly different story. Children who can help feed livestock, help with crops, assist with milking cows are a major asset. Parents may have to wait a few years for their initial investment to pay off dividends. I've watched a tiny Amish girl expertly handle a five horse teem doing harrowing. She could turn them on a dime and give change.

Dr. Steve Turley did some research on the demographics. Conservative Christian sects are producing significantly more children. There was a thread on this ages ago.

I can understand liberals wanting to ignore this demographic. Conservative Christians raising lots and lots of Conservative Christians.
 
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