Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"
my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable
the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point
we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it
the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive
🚨 BREAKING: Rioters are attempting to BREAK DOWN the fence outside the Minneapolis ICE facility, but another rioter jumped in and said “WE DON’T HAVE THE NUMBERS YET”
This is why the Insurrection Act must be invoked NOW before it’s too late
🎥 @camhigby
BREAKING:
🇺🇲🇮🇱 A bill has been introduced in Congress that would allow Marco Rubio to revoke the passports of US citizens if they criticize Israel.
Florida Congressman Brian Mast is introducing a bill that could potentially be used to deny US citizens the right to travel for criticism of Israel, the Intercept reported.
Real civil rights leaders fight for truth, not power. Charlie Kirk was one of them.
"Charlie Kirk was a civil rights Icon.
Charlie Kirk was a civil rights leader... It's time to call him, Charlie Kirk, a civil rights leader."
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🚨CHARLIE KIRK KILLER ACTIVE IN ANTIFA
It has been revealed that Tyler Robinson was heavily involved in the Antifa movement and was active on their discord servers
Antifa must be proscribed as a terrorist organisation
For too long they have been allowed to destroy lives