Posted on 11/19/2018 5:37:00 AM PST by Kaslin
According to the Atlantic, where I go for all my erotic 411, millennials lost the sexual revolution and they didn’t even fight in it. Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?, it asks in its latest cover story. Sheesh, just look at them.
I guess what they desperately need is some advice from a retired Army guy in his 50s, because this retired Army guy in his 50s has demonstrated that he gets it done while those goofs half his age are swiping left toward eterna-celibacy.
Now, the fact that millennials are failing to reproduce would superficially seem like a good thing, but it is probably a bad thing for society when the younger generation is more interested in Instagram and Fortnite and endless adolescence than in doing the hard work of making babies and, you know, perpetuating the species.
Probably.
Wait, is this a political column? Is this topic political? Oh yeah. There’s a huge political component. Dems are always talking about demographics, but we Normals can take the initiative by doing what comes naturally while the future liberal elites are still trying to figure out each other’s pronouns. The Democrat Party is giving up on reproduction – it doesn’t help that they seem to be suspicious that anyone who actually carries a baby to term is sufficiently liberal. That’s why they want to import caravans of foreigners, to replace their dwindling voter base.
But why is it dwindling? Aren’t liberals supposed to be sexy and liberated? Well, it’s been a while since I dated one, but no. They are whiny, not sexy. They are the Ben Sasse of sexiness.
There are a lot of other causes for the millennial sex drought besides that last, terrifying image. Romance used to be fun and now it is fraught. Look at the sexual fascism sweeping the schools and workplaces where millennials dwell in which normal male/female interaction is labeled “sexual harassment” by the aspiring erotic Carrie Nations of the Progressive Junior Anti-Sex League who compete to turn even the most innocent flirtation into a hate crime.
Get this, from the Atlantic piece: “According to a November 2017 Economist/YouGov poll, 17 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 now believe that a man inviting a woman out for a drink ‘always’ or ‘usually’ constitutes sexual harassment.” Well, that’s 17% of the population that self-selects out as too stupid to ever be loved.
There is also the issue of political selection. It turns out leftists’ big question in sizing up a potential mate is, “Does this person like the bad orange man?” A “no” to that question screens out the potent/fertile folks. Conservatives’ big question is, “Is this person an idiot?” Sadly, that kind of high bar is going to do a lot of disqualifying too.
And then there is the curse of screens. Technology is the root of all evil and most loneliness. Look, if you are staring at your iPhone all the time and texting people who are literally sitting at the restaurant table with you (Well, congratulations for at least leaving your mom’s basement – that’s something) then you are never going to graduate to the more advanced modes of interpersonal interaction.
Technology also means pornography, the seedy foundation of the internet. Onanism runs rampant among the young, apparently because it’s a lot more convenient than actually having human relationships. It’s not exactly conducive to reproduction.
Now, we all have friends who met their significant others on the dating sites, but the statistics are daunting. Unless you are a god or goddess, or whatever a gender-unspecified deity is called, then your chances of a match are ridiculously slim. Guys have to send out 100 whatever-you-call-thems – messages or swipes or whatever – to get one response. In contrast, women get bombarded with selfies, and not the nice kind.
It seems that, along the way, no one taught a lot of younger men that the way to a woman’s heart is not through a photo of your little friend. What the hell are people thinking?
So, let me offer some suggestions to you that might assist you in breaking the insidious cycle of celibacy.
Put away your stupid iPhones and computers. Yes, I know I'm on Twitter all the time and I'm writing all the time on my computer, but I have a freaking wife, and she's not made of electrons. She's Cuban, so she's made of fire and viciousness.
Just get off the electronics. Talk to people. Try it. Yes, if you say “Hi, my name is Kaden. Would you like a drink?” at least 17% of the recipients of this polite inquiry will blow their rape whistles and preemptively wet themselves. But this gives you important information – that person is an idiot. Go talk to the next one.
And go to friends’ weddings, if they beat the odds. You have to try not to meet someone at a wedding.
But do something. You owe it to conservatism, if not the species itself, to marry and reproduce. If you stay in mom’s basement dating Pornhub, how will you ever mate and bear the strong young children we need to grow up and bear arms to carry on the fight against evil foreigners and domestic lunatics who want to nuke us into submission to leftist tyranny?
Normal people, who I write about in my new book Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy, seem to be doing OK. They breed. In fact, if current trends continue, only Normal people will be left in a couple of generations.
Hmmmmmm.
Okay, I'll take back everything I said before. Liberal millennials, don't change a thing.
I feel for you. I fathered two children. My then wife aborted both of them. I have no sons to carry on my name or DNA, only step-children, to whom I tried to at least impart my values. Somewhat successfully, I thought. I have no daughters who would always be Daddy’s little girls, just step-daughters who are somewhat estranged. They seem to resent the fact that I and my family gave me some of the credit for their turning out to be hard-working, well educated young ladies, instead of reverting to their mother’s working class background, or worse, emulating the worst of the lower class contemporaries they grew up among.
Forgive me. Around the Holidays I get somewhat maudlin. It feels as if I have no family left. I miss them.
Hmm. I remember that research. Given security and an abundance of food, the populations expanded until a certain population density was reached. Then, in spite of the fact that there was still ample food and adequate, if restricted space, a generation of “Beautiful Rats” occurred which did not reproduce at replacement rates, nor did their offspring, nor their 3rd generation. In 3 generations (rat generations), the populations in the experimental colonies dropped precipitously.
But what is really frightening about that study, is that the experimental rat colonies were closed populations. No new rats were introduced from outside the failing colonies. In the real world, population pressure will always push new individuals into the vacuum left by the falling populations of the original experimental colonies. Or in terms of human societies, there were no barbarian hordes ready to migrate into the former lands of the Roman Empire as the population dropped. There are today.
Sorry to hear it.
A couple of points:
While a city is not a closed population in the absolute sense, I think it is closed enough to cause a depopulation in the same way that Calhoun described. Right now people living in big cities exhibit the same sort of anti-reproduction "behavioral sink" qualities that the rodents did. They are not trapped in these cities, but the only places they would move to would be other behavioral sinks.
By the way, one thing that already validates that Calhoun applies to the US as a whole is the distribution of democrats and republicans in the country, the famous (red/blue) election maps. Democrats control the high population density cities, and their platform approves of any anti-natal behavior, from birth control to abortion, to "alternative lifestyles." Republicans control the less dense areas, and adhere to traditional views of family and children. It could have been republicans in the cities instead of the democrats, but in a two party political system, one had to become the rural traditional party, and one the behavioral sink party.
As for immigrants moving in, yes, absolutely there will be massive amounts of immigration in order to keep the population up if we don't increase the birth rate. However, the birthrate is falling around the world, as the world is urbanizing. For the past 30 years Asia has been building massive cities, and now have the same birthrate problems we have. Africa is now doing the same thing. So, in the relatively near future, we will live on a planet with about a hundred or so megacities, and the rural areas to supply them. But all of these mega cities will have lower than replacement level birthrates, and will eventually compete with each other for immigrants. We're just entering the mega-cities phase, which will empty out large areas of the planet. If we think 5,000 people from Honduras today is large, eventually Central America will empty out entirely, with everyone moving to Mexico or the US.
I believe this has already happened to one civilization, the Mayans. In a time span of 200 years, seemingly for no reason, the Mayan population went down by 95%. Scientists have over 80 theories on why the Mayan civilization disappeared, but that civilization fits Calhoun pretty well. First, their cities were large and densely populated, between Los Angeles and New York today. Second, in the time their population was dropping, anthropologists have found other groups that moved into and took over Mayan cities, and adopted Mayan culture, almost identically to the US today.
Give the kids some credit. They’re scared to death of catching venereal disease which is rampant in their age group.
Only female in movie is BuckTurgidson's secretary who is also pictured in the centerfold viewed by the pilot in the bomber scene.
Love Strangelove.
Is there an app for this breeding thing?
[Clown World]
What an excellent way to describe what is going on these days in so many areas.
It’s been so long since I’ve seen good ol’ Dr. Strangelove, time to watch it again. Need some laughs!
Balderdash. It's generational and cultural and goes beyond left and right.
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