It seems that every other week there is a new story about yet another developed country reaching a new low for child births. Singapore had the lowest number of child births in 50 years, the earliest date for which records are available. What is worse, in the early 1970s, Singapore had only about 1/3 of the current population. The situation is not much better in the West. In Singapore, the focus is on labor migration but even in Germany, which supposedly imports Ahmed the rocket scientist and his brethren with their many wives in order to fill a demographic gap, people are struggling to keep up with the production of babies. Of course, I am speaking of child births in general. If we focused only on the native population, the situation would be quite dire.
I do not think that politicians really want to solve the problem of low child births. My view is that there are concerted efforts underway to slowly genocide entire nations, replacing them with immigrants. This goes hand-in-hand with bizarre elite plans. Feminism, widening access to higher education, and limiting the supply of housing are all factors that dramatically reduce a country’s birth rate. There is something much more sinister going on. I believe that the supposed uncontrolled chaos that is going on in the West is engineered in order to create a pervasive feeling of hopeless: the economy is bad, economic prospects are uncertain, there is high inflation, so how can you think of having children? Besides, due to climate change, it is incredibly irresponsible to have (white) children anyway, so better let your bloodline wither!
Only a few decades ago, and for hundreds of years if not millennia prior, there was an ongoing discussion about the “women problem”. Clearly, women were needed to keep a nation alive due to their reproductive facilities but on the other hand there was the question on how to make them economically useful, in particular in the context of early capitalism. Of course we know how that went. The elites succeeded with putting women into the workforce. This led to a dramatic decrease in labor income, due to this oversupply of employees.
If a country really wanted to boost its birth rate, there would not be vague incentives but big ones for having children. For instance, assuming a median home price of $400k, why not have the government pay off a quarter of your mortgage for each child after the second one? If you do not have a mortgage, the government could simply pay you $100k. Of course, there would have to be some safeguards, for instance making such a program conditional on the husband having been a net-tax payer for at least five years and possessing a spotless criminal record, assuming there is a functioning legal system in place and not some b.s. system in which you can steal and do drugs all day long and get a pat on the back, but if you use the wrong pronouns you get jailed. While it may seem excessive to get $100k per child after the third one, this is arguably money well spent. An illegal immigrant costs us a lot more.
I am not even convinced you need to explicitly ban women from entering the workforce. Just ban abortion and all the filth in the media, and women would not just LARP being “tradwives”, instead it would become their goal to be a mother and homemaker. They would compete with other women on who is the most traditional woman and brag about how many children they have. Women used to do that. Today, you only see this in the upper-middle class and above, where having more than one or two children is seen as a status symbol as it signals that you can afford them.
Aaron,
“They would compete with other women on who is the most traditional woman and brag about how many children they have.”
While society can fix the low birth rates there is one underlying issue – a woman’s sexual past. No man wants to settle down with some whore who enjoys sucking two dicks at the same time, and enjoys fucking different guys every week. So, how would society fix a woman’s sexual past?
The current generation is lost, but it should be straightforward to fix this rotten culture. You only need to present whoring as utterly reprehensible, for instance by making sluts the laughing stock in movies, music, news, and games. Women will take notice. We are currently getting exposed to the opposite social programming.
Aaron,
“The current generation is lost….”
So, if I wanted to settle down, and have kids what are my options? You have Gen X women who are whores, Millennial women who are whores, and Gen Z women who are whores.
Am I I better off importing some conservative woman from a foreign country? Even if I import some foreign woman who is conservative she will eventually turn into a whore given the culture we live in the West. Living the West is not an option for me. I like living here.
Your best bet is getting a conservative, young woman. Not all of them are whores. My wife is based. If anything, her worldview has been shifting even more to the right compared to when she met me.
I agree with Aaron. my wife has always been right-wing and she has been shifting even more to the right since she has been with me – often overtaking me actually.
The aspect of the induction of utter hopelessness, that Aaron mentioned in his post, to me this seems to be the core issue of this. This is what it’s actually about – everything else is just consequences and subordinate phenomenons flowing downstream from it.
This sense of creeping hopelessness could appear either as an unfounded psychosis. Or it may surface as some kind of manifest destiny, A RESULT OF THE ICE-COLD APPLICATION OF LOGIC, justified and corroborated by causality/statistics/”science” and the likes. A web of meaning and inevitability from where there is no escape, akin to the famous sign at the entrance of hell from Dante’s “Divina commoedia”: “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here” (lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate). Couple ot with a profound sense of chaos and disorder, and you have the state of the (((Western world))) we currently live in.
What’s always been so fascinating about this to me is, that logic itself is not an axiom all unto itself. It hat its presuppositions, that must be in place for logic to even exist, lest function. But the paradigm of complete hopelessness cannot justify even the very existence or logic. Or put as a rather technical analogy: You simply cannot “install” and/or “run” the “program” of “logic” under the “HopelessnessOS”. It is impossible. If you still wish to do so, you have to justify, to give an account for this absurdity – which is impossible.
This simply means, that utter hopelessness is neither “inevitable” nor “inescapeable”. That there does exist a even more fundamental plane of meaning, which can break such apparently “logical” claims. Of course all of this takes place on the level of metaphysics, within the realm of ideas, it is purely transcendental (which is why many people have difficulty even entertaining such thoughts). But this is the classic “transcendental argument”, which you will find with Plato, Aristoteles and with many Christian apologetics from the 1st millenium as well.
The degradation of education, of IQ, of social order and the centuries-old European trend since 1054 of first only diluting and then eventually abandoning its own spiritual , Christian foundations all make this sense of lunatic hopelessness possible. To the extent that those few people, who expressedly DO NOT share this sentiment, are themselves considered crazy lunatics. Is this the “hubris of modernity”? Go figure!
Western society used to be built on “logos”, but these days seem to be gone. Such esoteric topics are hardly ever discussed anywhere but the supposedly lunatic fringe online. However, there seems to be a change happening. One of the YouTube channels with political commentary I follow, The Duran, which is a fairly sanitized channel, recently had a speaker on who explained that Israel is an “eschatological” society, and they discussed this topic quite neutrally. This is obvious to anybody with some knowledge of history or religion, but this is an idea that used to be really far out. Presumably, the emboldened Jews staging their red-heifer ritual in front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque is a catalyst for the mainstream slowly waking up.