Weirdly, perhaps, for a lonely internet shut-in, I've always wanted a big family...
Like, it has long been my biggest dream is life to have a family approaching this size...
Maybe it comes from the fact that I was a very lonely, sad only child, who desperately wanted a sibling, and whose parents... Well let's just say it's harder to take a kid's sibling away, if I had any, than to prevent him from ever seeing his friends again. In theory, anyway...
So... Yeah. I know it very likely will never happen (I'm not gay, I just... Don't see myself meeting someone who wants that with me. Or living that long...), but... It makes me kind of sad that this most natural of urges; this most... Basic of things... Essentially your "biological imperative" as an animal (further than that, as a living being, seeing as this "need to reproduce" applies to plants and fucking bacteria, too)... Has become something that is seen as a negative, a bad thing, at least if you are a straight, white millennial... :-(
Brb, moving to... Eastern Europe somewhere, or the Philippines...
I joke, and I hope it doesn't come to that, but jesus I wish there were more women like this out there, somewhere I can... Actually find/meet one. :-/
From that perspective, it is utterly insane to me that a species, or part of it at least, would choose to cease reproduction. Like, that is... So unusual as to be almost "unique", both historically and in the animal kingdom more broadly...
I hate to say it, but I think it means we fucked up massively, somewhere along the way...
"Voluntary human extinction" is such a bizarre concept, so utterly insane from any logical, scientific perspective, let alone a RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL one, to take the opposite perspective, that it is, just...
Maybe we're too "intelligent" for our own good? I really don't know, but it does... Worry me, that this shit is mainstream. That should never, ever have happened.
Even Disney had to make up the shit about lemmings jumping off cliffs. And yet we, as a species, seem to be determined to actually do it, lol...
Unfortunately, though, it is the future generations that will pay for that "choice".
Weirdly, perhaps, for a lonely internet shut-in, I've always wanted a big family...
Like, it has long been my biggest dream is life to have a family approaching this size...
Maybe it comes from the fact that I was a very lonely, sad only child, who desperately wanted a sibling, and whose parents... Well let's just say it's harder to take a kid's sibling away, if I had any, than to prevent him from ever seeing his friends again. In theory, anyway...
So... Yeah. I know it very likely will never happen (I'm not gay, I just... Don't see myself meeting someone who wants that with me. Or living that long...), but... It makes me kind of sad that this most natural of urges; this most... Basic of things... Essentially your "biological imperative" as an animal (further than that, as a living being, seeing as this "need to reproduce" applies to plants and fucking bacteria, too)... Has become something that is seen as a negative, a bad thing, at least if you are a straight, white millennial... :-(
Brb, moving to... Eastern Europe somewhere, or the Philippines...
I joke, and I hope it doesn't come to that, but jesus I wish there were more women like this out there, somewhere I can... Actually find/meet one. :-/
Side note: I am an evolutionary biologist.
From that perspective, it is utterly insane to me that a species, or part of it at least, would choose to cease reproduction. Like, that is... So unusual as to be almost "unique", both historically and in the animal kingdom more broadly...
I hate to say it, but I think it means we fucked up massively, somewhere along the way... "Voluntary human extinction" is such a bizarre concept, so utterly insane from any logical, scientific perspective, let alone a RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL one, to take the opposite perspective, that it is, just...
Maybe we're too "intelligent" for our own good? I really don't know, but it does... Worry me, that this shit is mainstream. That should never, ever have happened.
Even Disney had to make up the shit about lemmings jumping off cliffs. And yet we, as a species, seem to be determined to actually do it, lol...
Unfortunately, though, it is the future generations that will pay for that "choice".
Our species evolved in an environment where 1 person could only collect so much stuff.
The tribe of around 100 people - limited by physical reality is the environment we evolved in.
Things have changed to where 1 person can hold power over billions of people and we don't have much defense against it.