Found an \u2026 interesting? Tuber of You \u2013 The Functional Melancholic (geddat?) \u2013 who offers a fairly, well, dismal outlook with which mefound meself in subtle agreement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Essentially, TFM discoursed re the global trend towards anti-natalism, that birth rates are declining in most places around the world (but for some areas of Africa and parts of the Middle East), and while the political apparatchik is generally twisting in a panic with flaming hair, modern generations (seeing you GenX, Millennial, and GenZ) are viewing the news with a collective \u201cmeh,\u201d \u2026 a generational \u201cyeah- no.\u00a0 Gonna pass on that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Makes reference to two contemporary philosophers \u2026 Dan Benatar (loveme some Pat, BTW), an anti-natalist and head of the philosophy dept (BKA the study of Why Bother<\/em>?) at the Uni of Cape Town, wrote 2006\u2019s \u201cBetter Never to Have Been<\/em>,\u201d and Romanian E.M. Cioran (birth-mourner, Hitler-admirer and now dead some 20+ years), author of the aphoristic \u201cThe Trouble with Being Born<\/em>\u201d who observed that birth is the real tragedy, life is suffering while non-existence is preferable as it encompasses the absence of suffering, although suicide is pointless because it is already too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ummm \u2026 ohh-kay<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n TFM goes on to offer that it is not people who are anti-natalist but rather the system itself, and modern, childless\/free generations are simply paying better attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women routinely endure a loss of career advancement in exchange for motherhood, while the inexorably rising cost of living pretty much demands that every household generate two incomes, and try selling shareholders that profits are down because employees\u2019 work\/life balance is up.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yah, work on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n America is dysfunction dancing in a top hat, but other, smarter countries like South Korea, Italy, Japan, and Finland are trying to unleash the effluvium of birth (eeewwww<\/em>) with incentives \u2026 payments per kid, extensive parental leave, child care assistance and ohlookiethar<\/em> \u2026 universal healthcare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n None of it, however, is working. <\/p>\n\n\n\n TFM opines \u2014 and this is pretty good \u2014 that social media has instilled a form of \u201csocial apathy\u201d in modern humans, a type of \u201crelational impotence,\u201d whereby we seek affirmation, validation, and connection via screens rather than actual, tangible, fleshly interactions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Humans are overburdened with debt \u2026 must survive high costs with low wages = unaffordability of life \u2026 stressed and medicated \u2026 elimination\/replacement of 3rd<\/sup> spaces by social media filled with trolls and bots \u2026 climate change is now just the weather (when is \u201cFire Season\u201d? what is \u201cHurricane Season\u201d? why was there another \u201cSnowpocalypse\u201d?)*<\/p>\n\n\n\n *Fun fact:\u00a0 the Pacific nation of Tuvalu must relocate all<\/em> of its residents because rising seas are likely to swallow the entire country right around 2050. \u00a0Good times, ain\u2019t we lucky we got \u2018em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyhoo, TFM believes one reason from the drop in birth rates is that modern folks have chosen masturbation over intercourse, with the digitized AI making it almost like \u2013 and sometimes better than \u2013 the real thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In sum, TFM suggests that it is high-past time to normalize life without kids, and that those in existence work to build a legacy not of bloodlines or DNA, but of kindness, of decency, of compassion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Liking this guy\u2019s vibe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After all, Paul mentions that celibacy is actually a good thing {1 Corinthians 7:7<\/em>} \u2026 Found an \u2026 interesting? Tuber of You \u2013 The Functional Melancholic (geddat?) \u2013 who offers a fairly, well, dismal outlook with which mefound meself in subtle agreement. Essentially, TFM discoursed re the global trend towards anti-natalism, that birth rates are declining in most places around the world (but for some areas of Africa and parts … <\/p>\n
… given current conditions, might be better to adopt a suggestion from the Goodest Book of all.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"