Falling birth rates and obsessive conservatism

[Parodite]

From Mother Nature’s perspective, nothing particularly special or concerning is happening. Low and non-breeders decline, while successful breeders thrive. What’s new?

But there is flux. Some species can become so successful that they turn into a plague, while others pass through the narrow slit of near extinction—or even vanish entirely—only to potentially make a big comeback… or maybe not.

This is the ruthless and unpredictable cycle of destruction, creation, and speciation. It’s all business as usual. The obsession with conserving or saving something at all costs—like our culture—is, ironically, a death wish in itself. It’s a denial of death and a fear of change. Obsessive conservatism.

[NapLajoieOnSteroids]

As a post-our Spengler message board, this should be right in our wheelhouse!

While I am glad that the worry about too low birth rates penetrated mainstream discourse, it is moreso as a necessary counter to decades of eugenic propaganda that is like a layer of ash over everything.

The fact of the matter is that as long as we've been tracking birth rates statistically, we can observe only one non-war gov't strategy to raise them. Authoritarian governance.

Whig supremacy, Napoleon III, Franco....milage may vary about how desirable any of that is.

Funny thing is I recently read an essay on this very topic and thought of posting it here but figured no one would be interested. Now I'll have to find it again.

[noddy]

its so hard to pretend their is a shortage of humans when their are 10 billion of us.

breed hard, die hard, now isnt forever, circumstances will change.

[Doc]

its so hard to pretend their is a shortage of humans when their are 10 billion of us.

breed hard, die hard, now isnt forever, circumstances will change.

Tell that to Europe.



Only Monaco has a stable population.

[Nonc Hilaire]

The Monocles are all elites living on a postal stamp . All their normal people live in Italy and commute, so they are a statistical anomaly.

[Doc]

The Monocles are all elites living on a postal stamp . All their normal people live in Italy and commute, so they are a statistical anomaly.

They are rich and they have children.