Just imagine. The entire modern economy, pretty much anywhere, but certainly in any “Western” nation, is now based on the idea that everyone male and female, works full time…
Universities have become wholly female-dominated. So have many, many professional fields. Most workplaces cater to the wants of middle-class women. So does most government messaging. So does the entire “field” of HR and recruiting…
At the same time, birth rates are crashing to totally unsustainable levels. Children aren’t raised properly at all, and are shipped off to “childcare” or to older relatives, as early as possible. Parents no longer no, or care, how to raise kids.
Cook for your family? Congrats, you’re an outlier. Most people seem to view cooking as some sort of “luxury”, and instead base most meals on either frozen shit, or takeaway and deliver, depending on their background…
Marriage is broken, and hell, most millennials don’t even bother with it. Divorces are higher than ever, and many couples barely even see, or talk to, each other, let alone their kids, anymore. So many kids are from broken homes, now, whatever their background or race…
Yet jobs are still flying offshore (never mind automation. It’s not there yet), and immigrants are still piling in to every Western country, partly to keep the birth rates up, and partly to keep house prices and rents ever increasing… Oh, and to push wages down, of course.
This, despite more “locals” working than ever before. This, despite women demanding ever more catering to from corporate, and all of the “equity” bullshit…
There’s no way any of this is sustainable, and yet it is everywhere… In every single “developed” country.
Some people here like to talk about Russia, but christ, look at their birth rates. Look at China, too. It’s not just “American allies and adjacents” that this is affecting. It’s almost everywhere, with a few very notable exceptions…
Amazing to think that “women's rights” and runaway corporatism, plus unlimited contraceptives (arguably) may be what dooms us, let alone all the trans kids raised on hormones shit…
I would say that maybe some parts of humanity can still correct this ship, but I’m not so sure anymore…
I doubt even in 1980 people would have thought that fucking Nigeria and India would inherit the Earth, but here we are…
/rant
Supreme missive from the 'boozler.
As an ~older woman who has seen 50 years of feminism run off the rails ... something deep got hijacked from women and they were told they were more liberated without it. Who doesn't want to be liberated?
It coincides with the decline of the Christian church if you ask me.
Yeah, I think that’s part of it, indeed…
That and the idea of “nuclear families” in general being rapidly lost in that timeframe, but that may be a “chicken and egg” thing…
It is interesting, in a sense, that there is no real “predictable commonality” across countries in this regard.
Like, Italy, Spain and Poland are all very Catholic, but only one of the three is yet to fall into a demographic abyss… Meanwhile Malta, despite high emigration, manages to not be quite so screwed, because it is more Catholic than Rome…
And then Poland contrasts with most post-Communist states, too, probably 90% of which are also more immediately demographically screwed…
Only Poland and Hungary seem to be bucking that trend (in Europe)…
Dunno. I have no solutions, only observations…
Hopefully this isn’t the last thing I manage to post. 🤷🏻♂️
Catholic people are the minority, regardless of baptism statistics. People don't live like Catholics.