I don’t generally loop into the religious argument here, but it’s right there if one wants to drop a breadcrumb or two.
I have never heard of Benjamin Kidd ... but I do think Satan has had this plan up his sleeve all along, and has executed it many times over the course of history.
Sometimes societies regain their booting and pull out of the death spiral. Sometimes they don’t.
What we have right now is a culture that is mass producing mental illness. One consequence is the dramatic erosion of marriage and childbearing. ALL the countries that have bought into the modernist paradigm, of which the culture of promiscuity is only part, are far below replacement rate in fertility.
The good news is that, proportionally, it is the more conservative and more religious demographics that still have children, while the promiscuous left defaults on rearing the next generation and poisons the minds of many of the children they do manage to have. Which is why they are so desperate to get their hands on other people’s children and maintain control of an educational system designed for indoctrination.
We are the Resistance, but we will inherit the future because — as Mark Steyn points out — the future belongs to those who show up. Which means having children.
The left’s answer to the demographic collapse is, of course, simply to flood the country with immigrants from alien cultures. They do not care about the destruction of the country and culture because neither they nor their children will be around to pick up the pieces. They are in a death spiral. And ultimately, if we connect the dots, it is Satanic.
I have two daughters in their 20’s and have considerable interaction with their friend groups. We don’t often get into these sorts of discussions; my daughters’ friends don’t want dad lectures from me. And my daughters would be mortified if I tried.
That said, from time to time, a serious conversation does arise. I find myself using the phrase “mayflies and Morlocks” to describe the life path open to the childfree set. It rocks them back a bit, but they can’t disagree with it.
If there is a pause, I’ll just shrug and say, “Well, it’s your choice. We are well past a society that makes any pretence of trying to dictate moral standards. But if you walk that path, you are voluntarily deleting yourself from the gene pool. You are opting out of creating the future. Play in your own sandbox. Be happy living high. But keep your hands off other people’s children, support vouchering the schools, and don’t expect other people’s children to pay for your Social Security and Medicare benefits. Or to empty your bedpans. Live as you wish, but make provision for yourself and don’t poison the future for everyone else.”
Per plan. The architect of that plan believed he could keep a lid on it. He also knew no historic empire had ever survived dispensing with its crux: Prenuptial female sexual chastity.
Not one.
I think the mechanism is epigenetic, for reasons I'm not going to divulge here (nor the name of that planner). I've got to get farther along in writing that book.
Yes, it's Biblical. Yes, it's social science. Five thousand years experience among tribal families raising animals and children in a xeric environment will teach that, lesson, not to mention witnessing empires come and go.
They do not care about the destruction of the country and culture because neither they nor their children will be around to pick up the pieces.
It's the hubris of the power to control the schoolhouse.
As to Satan, more than you likely know. Check out the Hebrew in Genesis 16. If you figure out what I mean you get 20 points.