Don Feder: How to Take the Chill Out of Demographic Winter

GrasstopsUSA.com E-mail ^ | 11-18-2007 | Don Feder

[bassmaner]

The intrusive nanny state is another reason why many people in developed nations are choosing not to have children. When parents fear that giving a well-deserved spanking to an unruly kid can land them in jail and the kid in state custody, it certainly gives pause.

[Tax-chick]

bttt

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[rmlew]

No disagreement. Without a third Great Awakening, Europe and eventually the US are lost.
However, I would note that the biggest demographic time bombs are China and Iran.

[Cacique]

I bumped your thread trying to see if someone had posted my e-mail. So here you go, a speech given in Riga.

[Cacique]

Bump

[Cogadh na Sith]

James poses an intriguing question: What would it be like to live in a world that had no future? Try to imagine a world where, for more than a decade, no one had heard a child laugh (other than on old television shows) or saw children at play -- a world where frustrated maternal love is lavished on expensive dolls, a world with baptism ceremonies for kittens, a world where mass suicides are arranged for the elderly (because there's no one to care for them), a world where people are quickly losing interest in sex because sex no longer has an ultimate meaning, a world where fatalism, boredom and ennui are universal.

Yeah... I've been to The Bay Area and I live near Santa Fe:

Lots of weird old cat women, but they hate God too much to baptise a kitten--maybe a Wiccan ceremony....

[goldstategop]

The Left is aborting itself out of existence. Liberal women are childless by choice. It will NOT be writing the history of the future.

"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 Palelologus

[qam1]

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[arthurus]

The answer is at the end. It is a return to Faith, to Religion which is a faith in and hope for the future. The present world, the developed portion and the wannabes like China, rapidly loses its faith in the future in favor of a narrowed vision that only includes the Present. It does not value sacrifice and the accepting of relative hardship today to make a better tomorrow.

[tbw2]

the movie “children of men” had one of the most life affirming / pro-child moments I’ve ever seen in a movie.
And after seeing that movie, I thought it was WAY better than the tedious, repetitious, overly intellectual book.

[Cacique]

Thanks for bumping it up. I hope more people read this thread.

[Nevadan]

Thanks for letting me know!