The End of Civilization?

The world has begun to harvest the bitter fruit of feminism -- population collapse resulting from the ruination of male-female relations, the systematic removal of fathers from the family (the destruction of the traditional, nuclear family), and so-called "family planning" (birth-control and abortion). Fertility rates in most advanced nations continue to decline despite the fact that they are already, in some cases drastically, below replacement rate. (In advanced societies, replacement rate is about 2.1 births per woman, since a man and a woman must be replaced and not all children reach the age of average rate of reproduction. In less advanced societies, replacement fertility rate is higher due to a greater mortality rate among youths.)

This chart gives fertility rates by nation, region, and the world for the years 1970-1975 and 2000-2005 (projected, of course).

This article describes the overall failure thus far of Japan's effort to stave off disaster through its "new angel plan." I've read elsewhere that young men and women in Japan are increasingly avoiding each other -- the women preferring to shop and the men preferring to relieve sexual pressures in private, alone.

This article reports that more than 80% of German women are happy to live without a man "in tow."

Please see "Read More."As the populations of aging, advanced societies collapse, they will be replaced somewhat by immigration, often from poor nations. These immigrants don't always adopt their new home's culture; instead they often hold onto the cultures of the nations that they left. Also, they are generally less educated than the average person of the nation into which they move. It's important to note that this population contraction in many nations is not controlled or gentle, it has begun to occur, in numerous cases, at an untenable, catastrophic rate.

In addition, feminism's left hand hasn't been careful about what its right hand is doing. Governments are encouraging women to have more children, which will require that men, who to a large extent have been removed from the family, work more to create more wealth to support both the additional children and the women, who will spend more time with the additional children and less time out in the workforce. Unfortunately, while men have been removed from the family, they have also been driven from the academy. Overall, they won't have the educations to replace the better educated women. (In Iceland, for example, 83% of women attend college, while only 42% of men do so.)

Many of these advanced societies will soon be defaulting on pensions and social security. Not only will a shrinking pool of well-trained, well-educated workers have to support retirement systems for a growing population of elderly people, they will also in many cases be burdened with the massive debts bequeathed to them by the aging population. (Call it "fiscal child abuse.") In the mean time, the marriage strike is growing, and male birth control will soon arrive on the scene.

Hold onto your hats, folks. It's gonna get ugly.

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