Many wise people have made useful posts. Their topics do not much overlap. The war on whites, depopulation and overpopulation, the public health tyranny, the marriage and fertility problems and others. A plan of action has to take them all into account. This is a first cut - what are we here for.
Progressives like to say that they believe in Darwin, not in Christianity. Wrong – they don't believe in either.
Christianity overtook paganism in Roman times because Christians believed in having children. They followed the biblical command to be fruitful and multiply and to raise children to believe in God.
Darwin defined "the fittest" people as those who see the most children survive to adulthood and have their own children. "Survival of the fittest" means that the genome of those who do the best job of preparing offspring for the next generation will be better represented in the future.
Children are the essential elements for both Darwinian evolution and Christianity. If you don't have children, your genome and your culture die out. Christians raise children out of belief in God. Pagans do it out of a commitment to the immortality of their tribe. The individual may die, but the belief system, the culture, the genome will live on.
Richard Dawkins summed it up. The phenotype (the human body) is the (human) gene's means of reproducing itself. Genes are immortal. People are simply the vehicle by which they go from generation to generation.
Progressives are mostly not having children. They do little to encourage the few that they do have to bear their own children. Quite the contrary, most believe that the world is overpopulated and does not need their kids.
Moreover, progressives generally believe that individual freedom and pleasure are the highest goods. Therefore, each of them has the right to do whatever they want with their sexuality. It makes no difference if they use sex to create a family or simply for their own enjoyment. It is OK to find pleasure in opposite-sex, same-sex group sex, trans-sex, child-sex or animal sex relationships.
Cherishing individual freedom, the progressive does whatever he wants with his life with no concern for the interests of society. It is all about the individual.
In choosing marriage and children, the evolutionarily minded or Christian person sacrifices his individual freedom to a higher good - that of his genome and his society. Providing children physical necessities such as housing, food and clothing, and societal necessities such as attention, guidance and education, demands much of the time and labor of two parents.
This leaves a parent less time and resource for his or her own pursuits. A parent of growing children has nothing close to absolute freedom. Though the responsibility diminishes as the children grow, those children will achieve more success in life if they get financial support and there are grandparents to help with their own children. Having a family is a multi-generational commitment. A person who has freely committed to having a family has little freedom left over for other pursuits.
Previous generations recognized that family entailed commitment. However, for the past century or so government has promised to support and educate children and to help all members of society address financial problems. There are programs for student loans, first-time homebuyers, unemployed youth and medical problems. As government has assumed responsibilities traditionally undertaken by parents, it has accustomed people to look for solutions from government and not their own families.
We used to be surrounded by people like ourselves. This is still highly evident in tribal societies and was significant in nation-states as recently as a century ago. Now, with widespread immigration, our genetic interests have been divorced from our geography. Our fellow citizens are not much like us.
Parents are in it alone. Your neighbors don’t see any benefit to themselves in your children. Your children don’t receive much support from clan, tribe or nation. A family is isolated. Instead of support from family and neighbors, it gets services delivered by dissimilar and disinterested civil servants.
Families do not depend on each other the way they did in the past. Women have their own income. Women with children get support from government. They no longer depend on their husbands. As the tangible benefits of having a husband diminish, women lose sight of the intangible benefits a man brings.
The courts have made marriage dangerous for men. If something goes wrong, it is generally assumed that the man is at fault, and it is generally assumed that the woman should get the lion's share of the communal property. On the other hand, society has adopted the attitude that women should have sexual freedom equal to that of men. The status of the sex act itself has been elevated, from one of life's pleasures that can most easily be enjoyed in marriage to an end in itself. In fact, marriage to a woman and children and children around the house get in the way of having sex. Marriage and personal gratification are at odds with each other.
Marriages stayed together when men and women needed one another. Often there was love, sometimes mere necessity, but it was enough to launch succeeding generations. The married couple generally shared the community values supporting family and children. The community frowned on people who gave up on their marriages, and especially those who let their children down.
Many pundits are busy attempting to explain the collapse of western society. They blame it on fatherless families, greedy politicians and any number of causes. It is deeper than that. We no longer see ourselves as a society. We no longer value children or seek to raise them to be like ourselves and perpetuate our genome and culture. Progressives vilify white people who even dare to discuss these ideas as racists. Other peoples, not as given to intellectualization, merely support their own kind instinctively.
The news that world population appears set to plunge is incessant. Just today we have this from Ed Dowd, author of “Died Suddenly,” about the actual and impending deaths from the Covid 19 vaccinations, and this from Toby Rogers about the Autism Tsunami that is producing children who are difficult to socialize and will mostly not reproduce. Yesterday we had this piece on the marriage dilemma.
The world population will fall because people do not want to and often cannot have children. There are social trends such as drug use, video games, unhealthy foods and a multitude of mental illnesses that are leading to premature deaths. Whether it is by design, chance, or divine intervention intended to lessen the burden on Gaia, most of us are not going to leave descendants.
It’s time for those of us who want to be represented in future generations to reassess what it will take. We need to believe in something bigger than ourselves, whether it is God or simply people like ourselves and our families, clans, tribes and nations. We need to devote ourselves to raising children to be like ourselves. We need to situate those children among others who share our beliefs, so they can choose partners who themselves believe in marriage, family, and passing on their system of beliefs.
Such people are few in number. I have decided personally to apportion more of my time to my children, helping them get the best possible education, preparation for the more sparsely populated and quite probably more demanding world to come, rather than bemoan what has been lost. I will do what I can to connect to a community of like-minded people, but I’m not betting on it. My focus is in preparing my children.
In the next issue I will try to tie this argument in with those of the war on whites, depopulation, immigration from the global south, health and other issues. There is some truth to just about every argument. How to combine them into a plan of action is the challenge.
Those are the deep thoughts from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man is waiting for the air raid alert to end so the buses will start running again so we can go to Toastmasters.
I can find nothing that I can differ with. So many factors are aligning and pushing the human race toward an evolutionary dead end. I would say it's depressing, but I'm not wired for depression (so far). It makes me want to double, triple, quadruple down on being there for my grandchildren. Now if I can get my traitorous body to cooperate with that plan.
Fresh back in Germany after our holidays together in Chisinau, my Olena told me on the phone about German Kindergartens brainwashing 3-year-olds into believing that sexual perverts and third-world immigrant rapists are good things. I love my wife dearly, but she is sadly mistaken if she believes that the future in Germany will be anything other than God finally raining fire and brimstone on that wicked country.
This damned war needs to be over so that my children can come HOME! Oh, I almost forgot. Our adopted country is doing everything it can to join the unholy alliance that it is the EU. May that same God rescue and preserve our new country and the good people who call it home.