“Breed! Have more babies!” demands the technocrats on social media, the conservatives even, the religious zealots, even some socialists and naturally the incels who want the State to mandate wives. Apparently humanity needs to constantly swell, to grow in it’s population. To expand across the globe. In the last century the world’s population exploded beyond the billions, previously humanity was in the millions. Despite war, ideology and famines that wiped out millions, the human race kept on keeping on. Now, because there are declines apparently we need billions more babies otherwise humanity may fall from existence.
Mental health, welfare dependency and so on is also on the increase. National debts and the normalisation of mortgage everything is so widespread that it seems weird to not actually be in debt. The cost of living in the “affluent” nations is getting to the point that basically one must work in government, corporate sectors or be on benefits, or both or have side and above and down hustles. Just to get by. It seems everyone is living at the expense of one another, climbing over each others finances and borrowing. Or investing with borrowed money into bubbles. Capitalism is blamed by the communist affiliates and then those who advocate capitalism blame the State. Whatever it it, it’s not a free market so maybe a version of capitalism that requires the State and central banking is to blame.
So people seem less inclined to have babies. Many who have children moan about how hard it is being a parent, some in fact become professional parents. The State pays for them do be a parent. Others demand that employers pay for them to be a parent to have paid leave. Ones own nest egg, a violation of human entitlements. Then schools have parenting as a subject so that teachers and curriculum complicate what humanity had clearly done for generations, making it an academic and gradable act. Children, and adults for that matter are infantalised. The world has to be bubble wrapped, sanitised, and made G rated so that little Babyface can remain a protected little child and all the big bad realities of life are kept away. Professionals insist on their importance in each child’s lives, with needles, before and after and during school care they lean into regulations to make sure parents comply.
Near anyone can make a baby, it seems few can have a family. The conservatives and incels blame feminism and in the past the anti-alcohol religious types blamed abusive drunk men. Kids navigate broken homes, fifty-fifty care or see a parent once a week on the weekends, or every second weekend depending on what is negotiated. Some parents are absent, they just blow and go. Others never wanted a partner when they had little Babyface, so they go into partnership with the government. Co-parenting with the State. People tease girls that have “daddy issues”, men even use it as a disparaging term and yet never condemn the daddy who caused it. Women complain that males now want a Mummy, a cook, a maid someone to watch them play video games even though both bring income in. ‘But he bread winner cos he be man’ so the manosphere grifters explain in between affiliate marketing and crypto lectures. Step dad’s are called “cucks” and gay parents are viewed as “pedos”, it’s better single mothers stay single and children remain un-adopted.
The children of Asia, those whose parents worked themselves to death, are becoming less inclined to breed. The salary men of Japan and those who survived the “One Child” policies of China, where girls were undesired have parented children who are wary of being like their parents. In China female infants were abandoned and left to die, so that parents could have a boy. The youth generations ask, “what’s the point?” Japan is a nation of debt, described as living in the “year 2000”, from 1970 to now. China and Korea seem much the same, children must study, get good government or corporate jobs. Work hard, make money. Make money…make more money…security is in money. Make it, go into debt to make more money or buy things to make more money. Oh yeah, don’t forget to breed.
And so here we are with lonely generations. People not wanting to date or unable to. Youth not interested in having kids or not more than the two point three required to “grow” the nation state. Nazi Germany would give breeding medals to mothers who bred large numbers of offspring. The Nazi State needed workers and soldiers. The youth see their parents struggling, are schooled on the profession of parenting, parents moan about how hard it is being one, each child is raised as though it’s allergic to life itself, helicopter parents and paternal government have monetised, regulated and professionalised what was once love. Love, doesn’t matter for those who insist we all need to breed. I wonder why some are now wary to be bred?
Love is not an ideal, it’s not material construct, autistic tech bro’s can’t speculate on it’s value and it doesn’t make for a cool skin in whatever game is trending and it’s not an NFT, remember them. Instead it’s a relationship. If one is to have a child, breeding and being insisted upon to breed becomes a frightening dystopian circus or at worse it hearkens back to fascist or communist ideology where humans are needed as workers. Good little proletariat children. And, as some have so blatantly implied, children are an investment. They will take care of you. Think about that, breeding life so that it may take care of you when you age. Perhaps those advocating for the creation of life need to understand that there is more to life that servitude, investments or even biological gene spreading. Netflix has already done a special on that “hero” of the cause.
Maybe the problem isn’t that those who are reluctant to have kids are being selfish or infected by some feminist ideology. Rather those who claim one must or should have kids are panic mongering and insisting on it for selfish reasons themselves. The collectivist absurdity of it all has not created a community, it’s alienated aspects and expects others to work harder and to become beholden to others lifestyle choices. It’s not voluntary and communal. It’s parasitic and dependent. Hardly a grand role model for life. Those who claim to champion the culture war have failed to see the dark reflection in the mirror, set an example, be the good person, lover, parent or child. It starts at home. But alas like everything now, it’s a political issue and incentives will rise so that people breed for tax breaks or bonuses. Those who see a child as more than financial will be punished or remain child free.
There are social media groups for parents who share their regrets in being a parent. They discuss the pressures to breed, to have a family. Some hate their kids. Just as kids may hate a parent or parents. Apathy or hate within a family is almost normal. Complaining and outwardly denigrating child or parent frequent for some. Those who believe in a deity will claim that is what’s lacking. More faith, more belief. Being a loving person doesn’t require the fear of god. It turns out not everyone wants or should be a parent or simply have not felt secure in life or their relationship to take on that responsibility, to build a family.
Breed, or don’t, it’s up to you. Good people are valuable. They are more than just cum and eggs. More people for the sake of it, doesn’t lead to better people but people for the sake of making people. In the end a lot of the advocates for the breed more crowd, seem to use their family as a prop or assume every relationship should be the same or simply don’t even consider love being a factor in having a family at all. There is more to a woman than her eggs, she is not mandated or obligated to be bred. Just as there is more to a man than his seed. If either are not inspired to have kids, then it may say more about others than it does them. As Rodney Dangerfield once said, “the best thing about kids is making them,” so have fun and breed but there is more to creating life than providing genetic matter. The world doesn’t necessarily need more people, just better loving ones. That love starts in your own home.
August, 2024
