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| Victor Davis Hanson: The Disappearing American? |
| 2022-07-08 |
| BLUF: [ZERO] Our popular culture reflects this multifarious growing reluctance to raise children. And currently only 65% of children grow up in families with both parents. The 2012 Obamacare ad, “The Life of Julia,” fixated on the new ideal American woman: a single parent of one child, unmarried, and utterly reliant on nearly 65 years of government support. The 2013 follow-up bookend ad fetishized “Pajama Boy.” He was supposed to be a typical prolonged-adolescent, man-child — sitting at home in his child-like footie pajamas, sipping hot chocolate. “Pajama Boy” was likely the sort that “Julia” had no intention of marrying. There are historical downsides — economic, cultural, social, and military — to nations that shun child-raising. They shrink in size, age, no longer believe in transcendence, become mostly agnostic or atheistic, and obsess on the self. And sometimes they eventually become dysfunctional — and slowly disappear. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #24 ^ This. He's probably barely keeping his affiliation with Stanford, et al |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-07-08 22:04 |
| #23 VDH's literal trade is making cultural moments and narrating a trend. It is up to us to find solutions, solutions which are unique to us as individuals. Someone whose kids are all grown up might do so by exposing the chin music their employer's HR Department is throwing. Mine is to make sure my kids don't fall for the largest propaganda machine ever assembled. VDH did his by breaking with National Review colleagues in that propaganda effort, which had to be ballsy. We are our solution. He is identifying the problem for us to solve. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-07-08 21:31 |
| #22 Stuff I read, in certain books Would make the world a perfect place Except that other people Just jamb those books back in my face... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 17:30 |
| #21 My afternoon's fine. My arguments are sound. You are not a licensed therapist so let it go. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 16:47 |
| #20 Clap clap go the flip-flapping lids Of biddies in bidness: It's SIDS, That new Netflix thriller On cute contract killers Who knock off invisible kids! [brat topples pudding onto old lefty's lap] |
| Posted by: Glealing Hupaimp6165 2022-07-08 16:46 |
| #19 And you are having a bad afternoon. Step outside and breath some air. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-07-08 16:40 |
| #18 Look. You embarrassed yourself. Nobody had to help you... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 16:02 |
| #17 Just think. If Hanson, Zeihan, Mearshimer, Musk had all the answers, we should be well beyond Utopia by now. Oh, we're not... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 15:57 |
| #16 What "fire department" is Hanson calling? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 15:44 |
| #15 So if you don't know how to put out a house fire, don't call the Fire Department? Fucking straw man, dude... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 15:41 |
| #14 People who screech about problems but have no solutions are assholes. So if you don't know how to put out a house fire, don't call the Fire Department? /rhet question |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-07-08 15:39 |
| #13 Oh, let's not rule out the power of "both..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 14:50 |
| #12 And, BTW, nobody named Michelle is running for FL AG Commish. Are you ignorant or an asshole? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 14:47 |
| #11 No. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 14:35 |
| #10 So, you’ll vote for Michelle? |
| Posted by: KBK 2022-07-08 14:33 |
| #9 Example: I just sent DeSantis' handpicked candidate for state agriculture commissioner an email to ask if he would be more 2A friendly than the current dem Nikki Freid (he won't be.) At least I asked. And, no, I won't vote for him. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 13:40 |
| #8 People who screech about problems but have no solutions are assholes. No matter how good their credentials. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 13:34 |
| #7 The trolls like Zeihan. That's enough to keep me reading cop fiction. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 13:28 |
| #6 Murcek, not a whiner, more like a wailing Greek chorus. He has a repetitive mode - this is an example. Someone has to do it. Check out Peter Zeihan’s latest book. |
| Posted by: KBK 2022-07-08 13:27 |
| #5 Look at Japan. Their population peaked in 2008 and has been shrinking every year since. They are providing a real-time laboratory for the future. |
| Posted by: Tom 2022-07-08 12:31 |
| #4 Hanson is an erudite whiner. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-08 11:42 |
| #3 Since the discovery of 'Rosie the Riveter' the gov't has encouraged two earner families. 'Replacement people' can always be brought in to prop up big gov't. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-07-08 11:33 |
| #2 Religious Christians and Jews and the wealthy — those with faith in the future and a desire to participate in its formation — are having three or more children. We’re in a Darwinian bottleneck, though the selection is between meme carriers, as it were, rather than gene carriers. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-07-08 11:28 |
| #1 Seems the Mormons and the inner city people have no problem reproducing. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-07-08 07:34 |