Capable observers both men and women, have noted this for a good 30 years or more. But the imbeciles who dominate government and media refuse to face reality. They are like Roman nobility who enjoyed their villas in the western reaches of the empire while the barbarians had already sacked Rome. Living in a serene bubble of the past that no longer existed.
This is true. But the imbeciles who dominate corporations and universities are at least as responsible.
That is an interesting analogy, and we’ve seen a much more recent example than Rome. When Britain and France were fighting over control of North America, France started out with an early lead in discovery but by the time it was settled by war 150 years later, tens of thousands of French settlers were pitted against 2 million British settlers. While France sent young men (fur traders and soldiers), Britain sent families - including many evicted by Scotland’s highland clearances in the 18th century. Few French women wanted to settle the new colony, and many of the young men didn’t want to be tied down; King Louis XIV even sponsored hundreds of women by paying passage and providing dowries as incentive for the young men to breed, but it didn’t work out as planned. The government of New France was encouraged to shun the restless young men, but still no deal.
Of course, the most recent example is the wholesale replacement of young Americans today with trafficked foreigners; the demographic change here is rapid and visible to all. For the masses of childless young American men, it means nothing; they are as indifferent as the young Canadiens of 300 years ago; they’ll still earn a living for themselves, and have little concern about the larger picture.