"It's ungenerous. Someone gave something to me that I refused to hand on to someone else."
There's truth to this, but now that I have young kids I think of childlessness differently
If you don't raise kids, I think you're giving up the chance to ever really know who *you* are
@esaagar I tried years ago to share the data on psychosis, but was accused of misinformation. A recent expert clinician on the HLP confirmed that it’s even more of an issue now. One thing is for sure: you don’t want your kids using cannabis. The “better than alcohol” = stoner logic.
funny how often this line of questioning comes up when most careers aren’t even high status or intellectually engaging
large chunk of office job careers (men & women!) r “bullshit jobs” & will eventually be done by AI
it’s identity & pride @ stake here - nothing else & it’s a sign of low creativity & cowardice
women (& men) just lie 2 themselves about the intellectual benefits & high status
What’s unsettling is how little modern politics is actually about children. They appear mainly as inputs to adult choices and that framing is on purpose. Parents should notice that their kids will grow up inside that logic and inherit that imbalance.
I finally get the “single-issue voter” on abortion. It’s about first principles. Once life isn’t sacred, everything becomes instrumental. The left’s politics is just that premise worked out to its logical conclusion with abortion, IVF, & surrogacy.
However, whenever I see these stories circulating X I think that if Congress wanted to stop birth tourism and fly in surrogacy citizenship, they could. The fact that they won’t tells you everything.
Egg freezing is a lottery ticket marketed as an insurance policy.
A lot of women will have their breaking point once they realize this. The fertility industry sold them a lie. And by the time they find out, it’s too late.
Personal favorite section of Beethoven 5 is the coda to the opening sonata form movement. The concluding music that takes the ‘fate motive’ and gives you one last electric shock. Maybe having such things in my head is why I’ve never used cocaine.
Any Christian who votes democrat again is a fool. They’re showing people that it’s ok to disrupt a church during worship. This is how they truly feel about you. The veil is lifted. No morals. No integrity. It’s not enough for them to have an opinion, they’ve escalated to physical intrusion of places of worship. The demons inside of them are so bothered. All the time.
Oh my you actually have to repeat the week's catechisms in order to accept a pop music award in our culture. It's so reflexively subservient it's stunning.