Perhaps one of the best editorials I have read about the current situation. More people should read it. Of course, my conformation bias is in full swing. I'll post on Twitter when I have no followers.
In seeing https://www.theepochtimes.com/argentinas-government-collapsing-people-refuse-to-work-amid-major-subsidy-cuts_4625861.html, I was struck by "Half of our country doesn’t want a job, and the ones that do, don’t want to pay the taxes for the others,” - by Alvaro Gomez (currently is a taxi driver). That point is why every collective has failed. At some point those who work see that some don't and decide to withdraw their services. Per Thatcher "”‘The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” Hard to say if most societies are beginning to understand that.
When we are no longer motivated to reproduce we deny our primary human function, our purpose. Worse by ruining our children to follow false ideologies we doom their future as well. A sad reflection on society at large. But the actions of traditionalists as you note give hope that not everybody buys into the dogma. How long it takes to demolish the efforts of the wealthy to hold themselves harmless remains an issue. When societies have such a gap between the rich and poor the answers haven't been pleasant.
I know Argentina. Their problem is of long standing. It has to do with the country's founding. The gauchos, Spanish-Italian-native mestisos, had the run of the endless pampas for three centuries. Cattle ran wild - they just had to chase them down.
Until Peron in the 1950 the country was run by big landowners (latifundistas), the church and the army. Peron made voting mandatory and captured the votes of the gauchos and other down-and-outs. Socialism, inflation, and umpteen government collapses have followed.
el gato malo (again! is he doing the thinking for everybody?) has a great piece today. Best part is his excerpt from Saul Alinsky, 10 steps to destroy a society. We're 10 out of 10.
Alinsky efforts have arrived in spades and we allowed it. Cloward-Piven active as well with the influx of dependent immigrants. Of course, the effects of these things are not felt by the richest. But huge income gaps have created trouble as history informs us. We are watching the US government slowly collapsing from it's own incompetence, yet fret over Ukraine corruption. I do think citizens are beginning to understand their plight but will they act?
This is a topic that I think about regularly. I enjoyed reading your article, which I thought showed a somewhat positive outlook for the future. I find it odd, that with such a serious problem facing Western civilization in the next few decades, that so little is being written about it.
My thoughts on the issue are more pessimistic. We have designed a complex society based on the idea that having children doesn't matter. The fewer the better. If the fertility rate drops to one child per woman (not a unusual projection, given all the anti-fertility issues you mention), then there will only be one grandchild for every four grandparents. If this continues indefinitely, then a reduction of 75% of the population could easily happen over two or three generations.
In the short run, this could be good. In the long run, it could be disastrous. I mean, where does it stop.
How do we turn it around, when we decide we need a fertility rate of 3 children per woman to stop the depletion of our population? Do we force women to have children? Do we provide incentives? Can we really reorganize society to provide for stay-at-home Moms, one car and single-income families? Will people willingly choose to return to the 1950s?
Big questions. And no one is giving any thought to them. Except for you, Graham. Thanks for taking the time to do so.
Excellent editorial...our family is actively living through the words of your story.
But there has to be much more to Ukraine's roll in the evolving future events... For example: Some like Prof. Jordan Peterson claim that Putin had cause to attack Ukraine as Putin was trying to arrest the proliferation of "wokeism", yet he himself is intolerant to his own people.
I am very curious how your "prophecy" relates to Ukraine...which seems to have been set up to take a human toll by the west.
But as Ukraine becomes more heavily indebted to the west, how can it resist the pressure from the west from adopting the perverted western values. Is the Ukrainian church have sufficient voice against the government to push back on immorality?
No. You put your finger on the biggest risk we face. We will be deeply in debt to the west and have a hard time resisting. Our salvation may be that the west falls more quickly than Ukraine gets sucked in.
Those of us in the west which have been tracking WEF's desire to take advantage of this situation, the woke movement towards more censorship of thought, the promotion of their human perversions, the government prescriptive impact on our societies, dividing families and friends are very concerned about the type of Ukraine which may emerge from the ashes...with "Build-back better".
Amongst Ukrainian diaspora a majority are government sympathizers which think our leaders are doing a good job taking us through the so-called pandemic, brainwashing and inoculating the masses to the point where the vaccinated were demanding separate church liturgies from the unvaccinated; and bishops were on the verge of dismissing any clergy that would not vaccinate...so much for the "free-will" which historically our bishops respected that each should do according to their conscience. No thanks to the Pope who went along blindly with this agenda. In an interview held by Dr Robert Malone with Archbishop Peter Turkson as to why vaccination was chosen as the only solution to treat the world, Turkson replied that it was the only one offered by Pfizer! How's that for "scientific inquiry"?
I have to think it would be a hard sell to convince any soldier or any family who has lost a loved one in Ukraine in its quest to protect Ukraine's sovereignty and freedom just to give it up to a group of elites representing a different form of incarceration which is imminent in the west...coupled with the loss of its God-given human dignity.
No society must ever allow its leaders get away with out being held accountable! So this never happens, society must always stay informed for which I thank you for your timely newsletters.
You and your followers may be interested in a new documentary titled "uninformed consent" released in the past days in Canada partially sponsored by Vaccine Choice Canada...makes one really angry how our governments have duped their citizens. Two parts, 2 hours total.
It is good to discuss these issues. The problem is the auditorium. Who are the politicians (the think thanks that they rely on) and how you as Graham can reach them?
I do not want to crash the party but unless we get a handle on the Climate by the year 2050 then we can kiss out hopes and plans goodbye.
Perhaps one of the best editorials I have read about the current situation. More people should read it. Of course, my conformation bias is in full swing. I'll post on Twitter when I have no followers.
In seeing https://www.theepochtimes.com/argentinas-government-collapsing-people-refuse-to-work-amid-major-subsidy-cuts_4625861.html, I was struck by "Half of our country doesn’t want a job, and the ones that do, don’t want to pay the taxes for the others,” - by Alvaro Gomez (currently is a taxi driver). That point is why every collective has failed. At some point those who work see that some don't and decide to withdraw their services. Per Thatcher "”‘The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” Hard to say if most societies are beginning to understand that.
When we are no longer motivated to reproduce we deny our primary human function, our purpose. Worse by ruining our children to follow false ideologies we doom their future as well. A sad reflection on society at large. But the actions of traditionalists as you note give hope that not everybody buys into the dogma. How long it takes to demolish the efforts of the wealthy to hold themselves harmless remains an issue. When societies have such a gap between the rich and poor the answers haven't been pleasant.
I know Argentina. Their problem is of long standing. It has to do with the country's founding. The gauchos, Spanish-Italian-native mestisos, had the run of the endless pampas for three centuries. Cattle ran wild - they just had to chase them down.
Until Peron in the 1950 the country was run by big landowners (latifundistas), the church and the army. Peron made voting mandatory and captured the votes of the gauchos and other down-and-outs. Socialism, inflation, and umpteen government collapses have followed.
el gato malo (again! is he doing the thinking for everybody?) has a great piece today. Best part is his excerpt from Saul Alinsky, 10 steps to destroy a society. We're 10 out of 10.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/believe-in-something-even-if-it-wrecks
Alinsky efforts have arrived in spades and we allowed it. Cloward-Piven active as well with the influx of dependent immigrants. Of course, the effects of these things are not felt by the richest. But huge income gaps have created trouble as history informs us. We are watching the US government slowly collapsing from it's own incompetence, yet fret over Ukraine corruption. I do think citizens are beginning to understand their plight but will they act?
This is a topic that I think about regularly. I enjoyed reading your article, which I thought showed a somewhat positive outlook for the future. I find it odd, that with such a serious problem facing Western civilization in the next few decades, that so little is being written about it.
My thoughts on the issue are more pessimistic. We have designed a complex society based on the idea that having children doesn't matter. The fewer the better. If the fertility rate drops to one child per woman (not a unusual projection, given all the anti-fertility issues you mention), then there will only be one grandchild for every four grandparents. If this continues indefinitely, then a reduction of 75% of the population could easily happen over two or three generations.
In the short run, this could be good. In the long run, it could be disastrous. I mean, where does it stop.
How do we turn it around, when we decide we need a fertility rate of 3 children per woman to stop the depletion of our population? Do we force women to have children? Do we provide incentives? Can we really reorganize society to provide for stay-at-home Moms, one car and single-income families? Will people willingly choose to return to the 1950s?
Big questions. And no one is giving any thought to them. Except for you, Graham. Thanks for taking the time to do so.
Excellent editorial...our family is actively living through the words of your story.
But there has to be much more to Ukraine's roll in the evolving future events... For example: Some like Prof. Jordan Peterson claim that Putin had cause to attack Ukraine as Putin was trying to arrest the proliferation of "wokeism", yet he himself is intolerant to his own people.
I am very curious how your "prophecy" relates to Ukraine...which seems to have been set up to take a human toll by the west.
Peterson is right on many things, but wrong on that. A profound lack of wokism is what makes this place so attractive.
But as Ukraine becomes more heavily indebted to the west, how can it resist the pressure from the west from adopting the perverted western values. Is the Ukrainian church have sufficient voice against the government to push back on immorality?
No. You put your finger on the biggest risk we face. We will be deeply in debt to the west and have a hard time resisting. Our salvation may be that the west falls more quickly than Ukraine gets sucked in.
Those of us in the west which have been tracking WEF's desire to take advantage of this situation, the woke movement towards more censorship of thought, the promotion of their human perversions, the government prescriptive impact on our societies, dividing families and friends are very concerned about the type of Ukraine which may emerge from the ashes...with "Build-back better".
Amongst Ukrainian diaspora a majority are government sympathizers which think our leaders are doing a good job taking us through the so-called pandemic, brainwashing and inoculating the masses to the point where the vaccinated were demanding separate church liturgies from the unvaccinated; and bishops were on the verge of dismissing any clergy that would not vaccinate...so much for the "free-will" which historically our bishops respected that each should do according to their conscience. No thanks to the Pope who went along blindly with this agenda. In an interview held by Dr Robert Malone with Archbishop Peter Turkson as to why vaccination was chosen as the only solution to treat the world, Turkson replied that it was the only one offered by Pfizer! How's that for "scientific inquiry"?
I have to think it would be a hard sell to convince any soldier or any family who has lost a loved one in Ukraine in its quest to protect Ukraine's sovereignty and freedom just to give it up to a group of elites representing a different form of incarceration which is imminent in the west...coupled with the loss of its God-given human dignity.
No society must ever allow its leaders get away with out being held accountable! So this never happens, society must always stay informed for which I thank you for your timely newsletters.
You and your followers may be interested in a new documentary titled "uninformed consent" released in the past days in Canada partially sponsored by Vaccine Choice Canada...makes one really angry how our governments have duped their citizens. Two parts, 2 hours total.
https://librti.com/uninformed-consent
Thoughtful expose!
It is good to discuss these issues. The problem is the auditorium. Who are the politicians (the think thanks that they rely on) and how you as Graham can reach them?
I do not want to crash the party but unless we get a handle on the Climate by the year 2050 then we can kiss out hopes and plans goodbye.
I think that the climate is mostly a made-up issue, but in any case climate, environment and all will be under less pressure with fewer people.
I won't try to reach the politicians. I will do my best to avoid them. They are complicit.
When we get an ecological collapse the population pressure will be gone!😥