The U.S. officially hit a new low in birth rate and, somehow, scientists are astonished.
Experts will argue this is merely a natural phenomenon — potentially the product of demographic transition, meaning, as a developing society reaches new technological echelons, a longer period of education is necessary for an increasingly complex workforce. This causes higher investment in children, which means fewer children are born. That’s one contributing factor.
Other parties will argue the couples are having children later. Male and female childbearing ages have risen to 28 and 30.9, respectively. This is another contributing factor.
Yet, scientists never ask themselves the most important question: What incentive do modern men have to get married?…
As for future projections, there is no need for inference. The European Union fertility rate is a perfect — yet grim — marker for the United States. The severity of northern European marriage rates are enough to warrant and totality fertility in the EU is a whole 12 percent lower than the United States.
Considering the prevailing narrative is shifting to cohabitation, re-incentivizing traditional marriage and promoting ideas of monogamy is a near impossibility when Pandora’s box of opportunity has been laid bare.
Whether you toward the future grimacing or beaming full of hope, one thing is for certain: men will increasingly be absent from the altar.
Here is a thought. We know everything the narrative tells us about masculinity is wrong, but what if we don’t know how wrong it is?
What if men, real men, that make society great, are designed to engage in aggression and violence in their youth? What if aggression and violence are so inherent to our programming, that being forced to suppress those urges is akin to caging a dog its whole life, or giving mice mouse utopias with no stresses? What if a life spent without risks and outlets for frustrations deforms the brain in ways we are not evolved to function under?
What if an environment of danger, risk, and release in the form of violence is necessary for men’s brains and amygdalae to develop in a way that desires a loyal partner, and wants to have children? What if society is really damaging men’s brains by trying to constrain their natural urges, and real men are not marrying and having children because their brain’s structural development has been damaged by PC pacifism and they have been victimized by the rabbits of society trying to make everyone mentally deformed.
What if letting the mice of human society determine how the wolves behave is something that is destroying society itself?
I don’t write this post for the readers now. I think this turn of the cycle has gone too far r to stop the momentum we have accrued. We are going where we are going. But there will come a time in the future after an extended period of violence, where society will be K-ified, and thus be able to examine the issue logically without the mice in the background going, “REEEEEE!” having any effect on the conclusion. Once we are there, I expect the cooler K-heads who will run things to realize that periods after wars and violence and unrest emphasized family over hedonism, and the good of society over safety. They were golden ages.
I want that K-society to realize that if it wants to maintain the greatness it enjoys – if those within it will do anything to preserve the good and defend their own, they will need to eliminate the bias against violence and masculinity among the young, and they will treat all those who propose r-selected societal pacifism as enemies of their nation and its people.
Because the first step you take in that direction is the beginning of the end of your nation’s greatness.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because one day, it may change the world
The most surprising thing about this study is that anyone is surprised. You mean a couple of decades of traditional conservatives trying to shame mrn into marriage didn’t work? (“Man up and marry that slut”)
I don’t know if the connection you make between marriage and permission for conflict are linked, but in all other points I think you are absolutely right. If I have any boys, I will encourage them in playing with weapons, in handling sharp objects, and create in risky environments (e.g. woodworking). I truly believe that boys need this. Girls, too, but at a lower level than boys.
Enroll them in martial arts, and let them fight in self defense growing up. Fighting is a primal expression of self that frees one from the constraints of society, by showing them they are free to do as they wish, and the rest of the masses are different, and constrained by inability. They will exit the herd, and be freed by it.
Jocko agrees:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Way_of_the_Warrior_Kid.html?id=WQGgDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false
Practically speaking, there are rather large disincentives against marriage for both men and women (family courts and welfare, respectively, for example). Even if you’re an otherwise intelligent woman or man, demographics are going to determine the zeitgeist. At the moment, fake infinite resources are pushing demographics ever further r (welfare, immigration, third world food aid–you name it), and it’s the Ks that are being taxed and stolen from and pressured to support it.
The correction (probably a crash, or even apocalypse) cannot come soon enough, though I do not relish the loss of life that it entails. Yes, that’s a bit sentimental. I know that rs are not my allies. They’d have me for lunch as soon as look at me.
http://www.neoteny.org/2010/02/09/teleologys-biological-roots/
Read this AC. Via Heartiste. Tl;dr mechanism for r/k switch
Spot on, A/C.
“…What if an environment of danger, risk, and release in the form of violence is necessary for men’s brains and amygdalae to develop in a way that desires a loyal partner, and wants to have children?…”
I don’t know if I’d go that far but certainly boys testing limits to gain confidence has got to be helpful. It may very well be that this can be done i ways that don’t involve bashing each other over the head.
A corollary to this is, do Blacks who seem to be much more violent become better Fathers or better people? You know the answer.