I agree with the birthrate comment in general. Not for whites but more for the Western world as a whole. My hope is when automation kicks in and everyone's stuck at home all day birthrates skyrocket and we have another baby boom.
Personally I'm more concerned about the de-Christianization of the nation.
De-Christianization and low birthrate are linked, intertwined things.
Women saw a de-Christianized situation where they could be abandoned and were, in droves. The divorce boom was unbelievable right after the Sixties. The new values were "do what feels good" and at first that meant everybody had their arm around somebody. Then it became obvious what came with that: nobody had to stick around for the later, harder, parts of love: the Autumn that came after the Summer of Love. Toilet training, getting fatter from pregnancies, the need to go home instead of hanging out.
So, with no-fault divorce and no restrictions, no traditional values, women said, "Forget this," and stopped having children. The first nightmare was being divorced after two or three kids, with little employability, and getting thrown a bit of alimony but having to face raising the kids alone. Or with their father visiting. But it was a nightmare compared to just not getting into child rearing in the first place.
A big piece was the girl's mother, who said or implied, "Don't make the mistake I made. By having you."
The second nightmare came later, and that was the man's. The women had absorbed the new values so well that they learned how to use the system, too. The men discovered they could be got rid of, too.
Birthrates may rise when people are home. But birthrates tend to fall when people truly don't want children, and that is cultural, not financial.
The Americans and Westerners have been dressing like people of no account for decades. Dress. It matters.
When you wear any rags, and your rags say cutesy things on the front, and you think that ripped and torn jeans are cute instead of just plain damaged, you are saying, "Conquer me. I am nothing. I am a little slave."
That kind of clothes did nothing good for traditional, Christian values you mention. They de-personalize the person. There is no dignity, and no assertion, and a tremendous passivity.
I agree with the birthrate comment in general. Not for whites but more for the Western world as a whole. My hope is when automation kicks in and everyone's stuck at home all day birthrates skyrocket and we have another baby boom.
Personally I'm more concerned about the de-Christianization of the nation.
De-Christianization and low birthrate are linked, intertwined things.
Women saw a de-Christianized situation where they could be abandoned and were, in droves. The divorce boom was unbelievable right after the Sixties. The new values were "do what feels good" and at first that meant everybody had their arm around somebody. Then it became obvious what came with that: nobody had to stick around for the later, harder, parts of love: the Autumn that came after the Summer of Love. Toilet training, getting fatter from pregnancies, the need to go home instead of hanging out.
So, with no-fault divorce and no restrictions, no traditional values, women said, "Forget this," and stopped having children. The first nightmare was being divorced after two or three kids, with little employability, and getting thrown a bit of alimony but having to face raising the kids alone. Or with their father visiting. But it was a nightmare compared to just not getting into child rearing in the first place.
A big piece was the girl's mother, who said or implied, "Don't make the mistake I made. By having you."
The second nightmare came later, and that was the man's. The women had absorbed the new values so well that they learned how to use the system, too. The men discovered they could be got rid of, too.
Birthrates may rise when people are home. But birthrates tend to fall when people truly don't want children, and that is cultural, not financial.
You have put your finger on it. Values.
Let me just mention a second idea.
The Americans and Westerners have been dressing like people of no account for decades. Dress. It matters.
When you wear any rags, and your rags say cutesy things on the front, and you think that ripped and torn jeans are cute instead of just plain damaged, you are saying, "Conquer me. I am nothing. I am a little slave."
That kind of clothes did nothing good for traditional, Christian values you mention. They de-personalize the person. There is no dignity, and no assertion, and a tremendous passivity.