I agree with pretty much all of what you said, but I still have faith that having kids is the right way to go for most people, since it has worked in the past. If we have enough right thinking people raising right thinking kids, maybe we can detach from the corrupted mainstream and make something new.

I don't blame you for not wanting them, and I think men can do better without kids than women can, most of the time. I just hope you can find something else that will give your life meaning in the long run because God knows it gets terribly lonely in your twilight years when you don't have a family around.

I am also in my 30s, and for a long time I didn't want kids or a family because I wanted to focus on my career. Eventually it became a sort of surrogate for family, where I thought to myself "Instead of a family, what I create as part of my career will be my legacy in the world". A delusion of grandeur that seems to be quite common among scientists and engineers, and I wasn't immune to it.

Enter Woke Capital and my departure from it, and the realization upon that departure that ultimately "building a career" is building something for someone else that you have no control over. And if they choose to exert that control in ways you don't like, you have no recourse.

And I'm still young enough to not think about it too often, but every now and then the thought of "who will take care of me when I'm too old to take care of myself?" creeps into my head, and I don't have a good answer. What I do know is that I don't expect Clown World to take good care of me when that time comes. I hear stories about how the nursing home treats my elderly grandmother and think I would rather die than experience that.

I have no answers and am not suggesting any particular course of action; simply describing my own personal journey.