A small part of the reason people don’t want to have kids is maybe because their notion of “good parenting” is all this fake therapeutic-no fun-helicopter parenting to the rest Bullshit. In real big family communities people don’t have time for this shiz:
We incorporate kids into real lives, well lived. They aren’t stressful tests of our virtue. They are people under our authority and care. We throw big parties with our friends every so often & people get smashed and smoke and play poker & whatnot while kids run around & go feral.
All this crap about your life being over with kids is based on the worst notion of fake parenting. Bonfires, fishing trips, useful hobbies, exercise you like - kids like a lot of fun stuff. Kids propel your forward into the good stuff. No more play acting with yourself.
Your fake life is over, yes. But you’ll miss having a nice meal on the weekend with your kind-of-single, kind-of-friends instead of…your own flesh and blood? Again, I’d have to think about how to put all this for rhetorical effectiveness. But the mod anti-kids thing is moronic.
“*to the test”
“I don’t want to have kids because I’d rather have no real and meaningful lifelong relationships and loves or any deeper virtues—oh, and I also really want to die alone. Yep, a masturbatory life of shallow distraction for me, please.”
GTFO
You think you will have have worse or better relationships with adult friends if you are united by having kids—never mind of same age. Again, what part of effete meandering singlehood makes a single effing lick of sense for most people? This whole culture is fake ass news.
They don’t want you to grow up. They don’t want you to experience deep sorrows & deep joy. They don’t want you to love & live like men. They want you to COOM & CONSUME, be enslaved in the process, & grovel about how great it all is: “I [heart] comic book/girls boss movies!”
This culture is robbing you of your lifeblood. Of a fulfilling life. Of the adventure of the real. Of what it means to be human. And the sick thing is, humans can be tricked so gladly people cheer on their own slavery and sadness—and worship their demonic oppressors.
"There are two states in life: single and lonely, or married and annoyed."
—comedian Richard Jeni
Everyone needs to get over their damn selves.
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There was a moment maybe 15 years ago when I realized that all the language in every academic job application was actually saying:
“We specifically do not want to hire someone like you and dislike everything about you: the people and programs you were taught and formed in, what you want to teach [at the time, political philosophy, rhetoric, American government and the founding era, political corruption, and media] and how you want to teach it [the books I would use, the teaching method and approach, the focus of the classes and research, and how I wanted to reform colleges and universities] as well as your entrepreneurial interests—and your ethnicity, religion, sexual preference, and political opinions.”
And it occurred to me that this was obvious, and I knew it to be so, but I had been trained not to think about it directly and was supposed to be grateful to somehow “sneak in” to institutions that did not want me there.
And that therefore my career goals and the entire project I was engaged in (to reform the university) was ridiculous.
I always knew in my heart that only new institutions or those already dedicated to the right mission were the way to go.
I have advocated for this my entire life in every sector of our economy and culture.
But for a brief time I tricked myself into actually believing maybe it would be alright to go the normal route.
I never did it again.
When a system or institution or business is obsolete or broken in terms of principle and purpose, or structurally or at its core, (and, granted, it is sometimes hard to tell when that point has been reached):
You have to either scrap it for something new or rebuild the entire thing.
There’s no skating by this. There are no shortcuts available anymore. It doesn’t matter how inconvenient this is to you personally, or what you’d rather the world to be like, or even what you think you’re good at or an “expert” in or whether or not you think you can pivot into some entirely new field or career or whatever.
You simply must adjust to reality and do what needs to be done. And there’s always something you can do.
This is why I say: the only way out is through.
*This was probably closer to 20 years ago, but who’s counting…
What is happening in regard to Russia and Ukraine while we have no functional President is one of the last, most reckless and outrageous acts from the supposed "adults in the room" who have consistently driven our nation towards the cliff the last four disastrous years.
This is not "democracy." This is the faceless power of failing experts in action: thwarting the will of the people in the midst of the final "lame duck" period of an aging dementia patient of a President. This is a form of masochistic, suicidal recklessness enacted by weak men.
These people are sadly driven by a self-assured but internally crooked path that necessarily end in disaster. Smooth from the outside, they are in truth each AT BEST like the dog who's wrapped himself around a tree and tragically freaks out the more he entangles himself.
The Police Chief also told us that Springfield police curiously decided to encrypt their communications recently so he and other neighboring law enforcement officers still can't hear what is going on in Springfield in real time:
In 2005, "@R_H_Ebright blasted Fauci & the CDC for having 'constructed...a virus that represents perhaps the most effective bioweapons agent now known.'" —@LeonHWolf at @theblaze
@R_H_Ebright @LeonHWolf But what people have forgotten is this:
"Prior to 2020, Fauci was the subject of frequent and strident criticism from many of the liberal institutions that have since ruled any criticism of his actions out of bounds."