Kin in the Game.
A feisty essay by a mother of 5. Hardly a line it that I do not wish I had wrote.
For example,
There is no political ideology more vibrant these days than the baby-hating anti-natalist movement. It is pure No Lives Matter nihilism, dedicated to stopping humans from reproducing. It goes beyond abortion, even. Terminating children already in the womb is messy. This movement instead wants to convince you never to have them, and if you must, no more than 1.5. They wish to arrest potential children—those not yet conceived, the souls who exist as hazy figments in God’s imagination—from being willed into being.
It’s all the predictable result of 50 years of dual-income economic policies, anti-family social norms, abortion on demand, birth control pushers hooking prepubescents on the Pill, and climate harpies who see each baby as just another unwanted carbon footprint.
If you dare to visit mainstream millennial social media, like TikTok, you will encounter an army of self-sterilizing lunatics who shout their abortions, peddle their sex show livestreams, and brag about how many SSRIs they take. These young people, mostly girls, have been brainwashed into committing genetic suicide.
Even worse, they do it with joy. They are following the Pied Piper of Despair right over the cliff, along with the babies they’ll never have.
Or this,
The captain of a plane tries hard not to crash because he has skin in the game: he himself is aboard. Now imagine a captain flying a plane containing every last one of his future relatives—his entire genetic lineage extending out a thousand years!
Well, guess what? That’s what you’re doing, at this very moment. Piloting yourself through life and carrying all your future descendants literally inside your body.
It is crazy how much influence God gives you. Your decisions can sweep away generations or create a vast heritage. Properly understood, you are, you necessarily are, a world historic figure.
Read the whole thing. It’s so joyous.
creating your own dynasty is one of the very few actions a person can take to start digging us out of this mess of despair and ruin. No untested vaccine is required. No mask must be worn. No civil war has to be fought.
Because the true antidote to the nihilism and bleakness swirling around us is to double down on life—joyous, chubby, sweet-smelling life.
Joy is what glory feels like.
https://americanmind.org/essays/kin-in-the-game/
I have a bunch of kids. My only regret, my gnawing regret, is that I do not have a bunch more.
Filed under: Deseret Review | Tags: birth dearth, demography, LDS
Sute
August 14, 2020
Yes. Great thoughts. This is why gay marriage love is love is an falsehood.
Two people choosing not to have children isn’t just about them. It denies a future existence for innumerable posterity. You can’t equate x+x=2x with x+y=?.
God sees these things and through the spirit of Elijah we can have our eyes opened to the generational reality we’re apart of as well. Think of the generational destruction a hedonistic Marty Mcfly can cause if he could convince his ancestors to have abortions, less children, or that they’re gay, etc.
Evenstar
August 14, 2020
The sterilization of children via the transgender propaganda counts as well.
sute
August 15, 2020
“It’s a hell of a thing, deceving a man about sexuality. You take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.” – William ‘Screwtape’ Munny
G.
August 15, 2020
Sterile minds in sterile bodies.
Leo
August 17, 2020
On the flip side, our society ought to be prioritizing affordable family formation. Young people are often trapped by unconscionable levels of college debt, debt which cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. The result is that marriage and childbirth are postponed precisely in the years that are most biologically favorable for forming a family.
The Church has made efforts to make college relatively affordable at its own schools. There are also affordable state schools with Church Institute programs.