Posted on 10/24/2006 8:36:16 AM PDT by kellynla
bump
IOW, if you want to serve your country, have babies. Now if I can find someone who is desperate enough to have me, I can get started!
Some are actually dying to be a population bomb.
"Is there any reason to lament the decline of a civilization that has been the primary cause of its own demise?"
bumpmark. Steyn, as usual!
Don't give 'em your right name??? Jake
The only bright spot I see in the article is that I'll be dead before dhimmitude begins here...
The Do-Gooders inundated the developed world 40 years ago and said that we had a population crisis. We need birth control! We need abortion! We need people to give up on marriage and children! And in those parts of the world where children can grow up with enough to eat, where they can get a good education, and where they can contribute to the welfare of Humanity -- in those parts of the world, fertility began dropping like a rock.
Meanwhile, of course, the third world country was getting more food, more clean water, and more medicine. Any effort to tell them to stop having children would have been inherently judgemental and racist. Fertility skyrocketed, although actual opportunities and quality of life often did not keep pace.
Now the third world is full of angry teenagers and the developed world is full of old people.
It's almost seems like a plan to destroy the West.
Mark Steyn doesn't say so, but James Burnham did more than fifty years ago: "The Suicide of the West." The cultures that are disappearing are those infected with the life-hating, God-hating, modernist philosophies and the statist politics of the Left.
Once people had kids so that the kids would shelter, feed, defend, and clothe them when they were too old to take care of themselves.
Then we got social security. Now we have a phenomenon analagous to "the tragedy of the commons". If I can get the benefit of children without the expense and hassle, there's less incentive for me to have my own. I can have sex with birth control -- in fact if I use a barrier device I can have sex with lots of people without that burining sensation when I urinate, without the hassle of dealing with their Monday morning selves, and without the previously almost inevitable diapers, acne, tantrums, car-wrecks, ambarrassed interviews with school officals and the occasional police officer.
And, later, when I'm less interested in sex but more interested in getting my dentures repaired, I can use the taxes of other people's productive children to pay for me.
So, sooner or later, no kids, thus:
"Wait, I thought YOU were going to raise the kids."It's not wise to mess with God's plan.
"HAIL no, not me! I thought YOU were going to do that."
"Oops! Oh well. Pass the dog food and the can-opener, please."
"Sorry, the teenagers stole it last night."
FMCDH(BITS)
The bright spot, though, is that larger families are becoming more popular in the US among conservatives, while the libs are skewing the numbers by aborting themselves out of existence.
Don't worry, the "latest" theory is that child rearing is to important for the state to leave it in the hands of parents. It takes a village you know.
good article. but scary.
Yep. Weak, feminized men + selfish women = cutural suicide.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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