German Chancellor Angela Merkel has authorized over fifty thousand refugees from war torn Syria to settle into Germany. It is assumed that she will further authorize even more for the next few years. Many speculate the main reason she’s doing this is somewhat related to altruism, but mostly related to Germany’s shrinking workforce.
Germany, just like Japan, has an aging population, one that is not being equally replaced by children born. Japan has been aware of this inequity of replacement population where births do not come anywhere near equaling the number of those who die. This has prompted Japan to focus on the building of a robotic workforce. Japan, like China, remains a country populated by asians, and they are not eager to drastically change or racially diversify their society.
The question remains, how did these two productive powerhouses arrive at this point, with so few children being born to citizens? One factor in Germany could be the diminishing influence of the Christian faith. Many Europeans consider it a mark of an advanced culture, that they no longer ascribe to the constraints and duties of any church. Not all, but many Japanese have become workaholics and derive most of their satisfaction from achieving social status
This is an aspect of r/K which could really yield benefit. Lower replacement rates are likely due to diminished stress during development, if you go by the r/K model. I would bet compulsory military service, or even restructuring public schools to approximate the military academy experience would yield generations much more likely to have less hedonistic, more sinecure tendencies, value loyalty, and follow the normal path of marriage and child rearing. The key would be to allow the individual to experience enough stress and amygdala development early on that their amygdala would develop sufficiently and trigger the K-selected desire to engage in high-investment child rearing.
Absent that, any economically productive society will produce a generation with a hedonistic, r-selected mentality that emphasizes pleasure over loyalty, and hedonism over family. If the research can be believed, such individuals will even have less desire to smell the smell of babies, shorter relationship durations, and higher numbers of partners, all as they make copious use of birth control and abortion to keep the fun times going.
Some day a civilization will arise that will heed the lessons of r/K, using them to avoid the many societal tragedies that until now were unavoidable. When such a civilization arises, it will soar above every other civilization, and change the course of our species.
Such a civilization will not include rabbits.
Apocalypse cometh™
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