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Phil Eiger Newmann, Soy Boys, 2021.
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As someone who was born at the tail end of the Baby Boom, I was raised in a world where white people popped out kids in numbers that would put modern Hispanics to shame.
My mother was one of eleven kids. My father was one of four. I was also one of four. The family in the brick row home to our left had a half-dozen. The family to our right had only two children, and back then I honestly wondered if the dad suffered from diminished procreative powers. It was something that people in the neighborhood whispered about — for a white man back then to only have two children meant there had to be something wrong with his plumbing.
Nowadays, I struggle to think of any other adult white Americans I know that have children. If forced to guess, I’d say one in ten of them has even bothered to breed.
I recall the intense hype back in the 60s and 70s that we were facing, to use Paul Ehrlich’s phrase, a “Population Bomb” that would have the world so overcrowded by the year 2022 that we’d be eating little green crackers made of dried human flesh and that conditions would be so miserable, the elderly would be flocking to government-sponsored suicide clinics. One of the mantras of the 1970s Left was “Zero Population Growth” (ZPG), but over time, they realized it would be racist to mention where all of the growth was occurring, so they have largely kept silent about overpopulation.
But while the Population Bomb continues exploding in Africa and your occasional towelhead fiefdom, it has fizzled out in every area on the planet that matters if you care about white people existing 100 years from now.
In the salty old year of 1800 — when the USA was 81.1% white, unlike today, where non-Hispanic whites teeter at around only three-fifths of the population and are set to become a minority within a generation — the average woman cranked out seven children from ’tween her loins. By the 1950s, American females were still churning out nearly four bambinos per vagina.
As of 2019, the USA’s total fertility rate (TFR) was a mere 1.71 children per woman across all races — lower than the estimated replacement fertility rate of 2.1 which, as we all know, is needed to keep the population steady unless you want to flood the country with millions and millions and millions more immigrants.
Hispanics are out-breeding blacks, who are out-breeding whites, who are just slightly out-breeding Asians, which comes as a bit of a surprise to me. If things proceed as the demographic prognosticators expect, whites will dip below half of the total American population over the next 20 years or so.
In the year 2017, the white American birthrate fell in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The black fertility rate reached above replacement level in only 12 states. In a majority of states — 29 — Hispanic women were breeding above replacement level.
But overall, American women — including the notoriously fecund Latinas — are not breeding at a sufficient clip to replace the population.
Enter the immigrants to save us all from our self-imposed sterility.
In 2018, there were slightly over one million legal immigrants to the USA. Of these, only about 85,000 of these immigrants came from Europe. According to recent stats, only about half of European immigrants to the USA come from Western or Northern Europe — the traditional stock of colonial America. So, taking those 2018 stats and assuming that half of the Euro-migrants are Slavs, Dagos, and other such non-traditional white Americans, less than four percent of modern legal immigrants are coming from the areas whence the original white Americans came.
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To hear some of the arch-prudes of the Neo-Metaphysical Right tell it, America is awash in rampant sexual degeneracy: Children are hypersexualized right out of the womb, teenagers are experimenting with 31 flavors of sexual deviancy, and even senior citizens are wantonly spreading herpes and chlamydia via bawdy nursing-home Viagra parties. The Anti-Degeneracy Squad appears to be under the misconception that sexual activity is at an all-time high — it’s just that contraception and elevated levels of homosexuality are driving down the birthrates.
The truth is that fewer younger people are having sex these days compared to previous generations.
A sprawling 2018 article in the Atlantic called “The Sex Recession” cites a CDC report claiming that from 1991 to 2017, “the percentage of high-school students who’d had intercourse dropped from 54 to 40 percent.” This, despite the fact that sexual attitudes are more permissive than ever and the fact that porn is never too far from anyone’s fingertips.
Why does reality contradict expectations? Why, with the entire world immersed in an electric brothel, is each new generation more prudish than the last? According to Kate Julian, author of the Atlantic piece:
I was told it might be a consequence of the hookup culture, of crushing economic pressures, of surging anxiety rates, of psychological frailty, of widespread antidepressant use, of streaming television, of environmental estrogens leaked by plastics, of dropping testosterone levels, of digital porn, of the vibrator’s golden age, of dating apps, of option paralysis, of helicopter parents, of careerism, of smartphones, of the news cycle, of information overload generally, of sleep deprivation, of obesity.
I’d say “all of the above” is a safe answer. And add to all that the fact that #MeToo has rendered many modern men terrified of ever touching a woman for fear of inevitable rape charges looming somewhere down the line.
The sad scientific fact is also that men aren’t nearly as manly as they used to be. Among Western men, sperm counts plummeted nearly 60% from 1973 to 2011. In a Massachusetts study, median bioavailable testosterone nearly halved among men over a 15-year span ending in 2005.
Dowell Myers is a professor who studies demographic trends at USC. He says that America’s imploding birthrates are not only a “crisis,” they are a “barometer of despair”:
The cost of housing, the cost of education, all these things have become more and more difficult. I think the boomers themselves don’t realize how much harder it is for millennials today. And they think, “Oh yeah, when we were young we had to live, you know, on very little money, and we made do, and you can do the same.” That’s the story, right? Well no, it really is a lot harder for young people today. It’s amazing how much harder it is. . . . We need to have enough working-age people to carry the load of these seniors, who deserve their retirement, they deserve all their entitlements, and they’re gonna live out another 30 years. Nobody in the history of the globe has had so many older people to deal with.
This bespectacled schmuck — who doesn’t appear to be far from boomerdom himself — expects boomers to be compassionate toward the new waves of young, low-T, infertile, sexless androids when he describes boomers as an inconvenient economic problem “to deal with”?
A giant difference between the boomers and the younger generations is that the boomers liked to FUCK. And to BREED. Not as much as their ancestors, mind you — but much more than their descendants. Better a baby boomer than an anime masturbator.
Young white people, I implore you to free yourself from the prudish shackles and diminished libidos under which modernity has suffocated you. Rather than being fruity, I insist you be fruitful and multiply instead. If you don’t want to go the way of the dodo bird, you’d better start breeding.
And you can’t start breeding if you don’t start fucking.
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America needs more white babies.
One might grow up to be the next Jim Goad.
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The anti-degeneracy squad are not saying that the problem is too much fornicating, but too much pornography, which conversely, and used to be thought paradoxically, leads to less f’cking. But also leads to more paraphilias, which definitely leads to less procreation.
Yes. My grandfather one of ten. Both my mother and father one of four. It’s pretty crazy how few individuals seem to want kids these days. On the subject of Sean Connery, in his younger days there were some interesting anecdotes about his toughness. Apparently he disarmed Micky Cohen’s henchman Johnny Stompanato on the set of some film, amongst other things. He also famously declared to that very wrinkly TV lady that sometimes a woman deserves a slap. I have seen many women for whom this act would only have been the start of their rehabilitation; such is the vulgarity with how some conduct themselves.
Women don’t want kids because they’re too busy LARPing as men, and men aren’t interested in marriage because why invest in a woman when marriage and family law makes you her ATM/Manservant?
Tip: Tinder and bumble for all the cheapness are better than okcupid. On the latter they just tease until they find a guy who’ll fly them to Dubai.
The issue is that to fight against mission creep now is far too late, you are not projecting the future trends, there will be no stopping this train because the plan was set forth several generations ago. it will not stop with bestiality, pedophilia, necrophilia, it will keep going. If you have children, unless you are going to live in an amish community, at this point, you are only providing fodder for your enemies. How do you prevent your own children to not hate you or even not kill you 20 years from no due to what the philosophies they will be indoctrinated in.
Dont worry, the Amish will be wiped out too just like all those Christians who kept running away to avoid confrontations with the Bolsheviks in Russia. The Bolsheviks ((( slaughtered them in the worst ways that we can imagine.
“How do you prevent your own children to not hate you or even not kill you 20 years from no due to what the philosophies they will be indoctrinated in”
Simple. I brainwash them even harder. My indoctrination is total. From an early age I was very open and honest about who the enemy is and why they want to hurt us. I actually spend time with them. I love them. Every hour of every day is spent working on their behalf. There has never been and never will be stuff like soda, videogames, sportsball, etc allowed in my house. I lavish them with my time and energy. We hike, we backpack, we cook, we build, we read, we literally live out our lives together. This was started on the 1st day they took a breath. As a confessed self-involved, bitter Gen-Xer, I can tell you the feeling of liberation and freedom to be released from my own bullshit is sublime. My only regret is not having more and having them earlier. Could they turn me? LOL of course. But why be a defeatist faggot when I don’t have to be?
I’m curious, what is the perceived benefit of not letting your kid play sports?
because hes a crazy ass mother fucker
Don’t sugar coat it so much tell us how you really feel, seriously.
I presume he means he’s against watching sports but not against playing rec league T-ball.
“Game over, man”
The 20 to early 30yr olds i work with tell me the young White women they kniw are very promiscuous. It’s not that they aren’t having sex, they are having sex with many different men and using birth control. Who wants to have kids with a chick that’s slept with half the football team? That’s a decent mother for their kids? Several guys in their 30s have Asian or Hispanic brides. The only young White couples I know that have kids, are Southern Europeans. Maybe lingering effects of a Catholic childhood.
Can anyone tell me what is going on at AmRen? Nothing new there in days
Are you accessing AmRen via a smart phone or a laptop?
I find my phone is often a few days behind the curve but my computer link is updated daily.
It’s been bad for my phone as well but fine for my laptop.
Gen X Dago-Anglo-Teuton Mix here. Six “siblings”. Unfortunately, my ma had her tubes tied so the rest are transracially adopted. Seriously, I still love my misguided hippy parents but they were way ahead of the cuck curve.
I guess I took cues from my folks because I married an Asian woman and had two smart & happy little Hapas. Obviously this well before CC came into my life. At least my wife is based toward Blacks. I mean sincere hatred that would make Derbyshire blush. That’s making relocation to a Whitopia easier.
As a practical matter, White advocates need to decide what to do with White allies and other real world messiness. For example, should I encourage my kids to marry White, either explictly or implictly (move to a Whitopia)? What about White hispanics? Where do you draw the line? Rather than some heroic fantasy, the future of White America is likely to resemble the South of Brazil via a state sanctioned slow cleanse, i.e. Mestizaje Americana.
Try finding a Whitopia. They’re becoming as scarce as hens teeth. Affirmative furthering Fair Housing is going to make it even rarer.
That’s food for thought which may be uncomfortable for diehard white nationalists. Addressing the potentials and pitfalls of mixed heritage is as messy as the present demographic and economic circumstances faced by anyone concerned with positive White identity. Ultimately, what’s better: No white genetics vs. mixed white genetics. As well, I think that white self hatred within a “pure” specimen is more detrimental than an individual of mixed, meztizo heritage with a healthy regard for white identity and interests. Case in point, one of my best friends in the military was a second generation hispanic who displayed attitudes towards White/Anglo culture much more favorable than the White denigrating attitudes exhibited by members of my own family. Instinctually, when it comes to racial consciousness (the proverbial “foxhole” scenario), I’m inclined to ally with my friend over my family. A lot of this has to do with class consciousness as well. Alienating the underclass is not wise. It’s a messy scenario, but better addressed than ignored.
i commend you on your fight, but few people understand that you also have to not just control your immediate family, and the wife, but also all extended family, peers, friends, neighbors, and all forms of influence which is very difficult and almost empossible. Learning books for kids from kindergarten through highschool would have to be atleast 70 years old as there is almost literally no avenue where the Poz now doesn’t have a majority stake. I looked at my 1st grade nephew’s online learning portal, all the pictures in their online web courses are mixed, with same sex parents even, its all in the background too and did not have relevance to the lesson
You destroyed your genetic heritage by breeding out, and you’re asking us if we’re ok with your half breeds destroying the lineage of other Whites? Sorry dude, but if we do get the chance for White homelands, you and yours aren’t invited, far as I’m concerned. It will be a White Ethno state, not a Quadroon Ethno State. BTW, your kids might allegedly be a hair smarter, depending on which Asian you bred with, but they’re also definitely smaller in frame.
The problem is that it takes two to tango, and it is a feminist axiom that fertility is at all times the prerogative of the female. The overproduction of ‘ethnic’ babies is of course sacrosanct but different standards and practicalities pertain to white couples, as Jim Goad notes.
One might provide a financial incentive, as has been done in Hungary, but would that work in the US or Western Europe? The liberal press will scream blue murder and Margaret Atwood will be wheeled out to prophesy.
It is a difficult nut to crack and I suspect that a true Conservative Revolution must occur before aught will change,
If the True Conservative Revolution fails to materialize what to do in the meantime? True Conservative Revolutions are spoken of but seem to be in short supply. On the authoritarian, puritanical, fascist scale in these inverted times, the current Woke chokehold might qualify as the Truest Conservative Revolution that any of us may ever experience.
cites a CDC report
Lost me right there.
Something that’s not mentioned is that there’s a lot of bitterness between between men and women, lots of people grew up with broken families from divorce and many Whites now implicitly understand that their children will grow up in a hostile planet of the apes world.
Most men don’t want to get married and by extension have kids because well.. who in their right mind wants to put half of their assets, future income and their offspring on the line then cross their fingers that their spouse will not lose attraction to them? That’s what marriage is now, it’s not like there’s any shame in getting a divorce anymore and women are constantly bombarded with the idea that there’s always someone better out there for them and what’s their risk versus reward for divorce statistically speaking? It’s a not a mystery why they initiate divorce at a much higher rate than men do. Ask any person to make that type of deal in any other context and you’d get laughed at for proposing such an absurd contract. That was before the government decided they could shut the economy whenever they want, can’t wait to see what divorce rates have been like since that started. I don’t personally blame anyone for this, the government is intentionally incentivizing Whites to not form families with these sorts of policies and there’s no political will to change it at all.
The media has been bragging for the last year that the US majority is non White under the age of 18 and that there’s no reversing that trend, I don’t doubt it. The jews sewed the seeds of this country’s destruction a long time ago and the scope of the damage is now really coming into view, there’s no evidence it can be reversed without a deus ex machina situation unfolding. I’ve always maintained that the only way out is secession and as much as I wish we had Trump for another four years it’s a blessing that they so blatantly stole the election and are going full steam ahead with clownworld. Normiecons I know are now openly talking about secession, anecdotal, I know, but they’ve always been a reliable weathervane for what the average non shitlib person is thinking so that’s light at the end of the tunnel for me. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t delay it as much as possible or give up on pushing people in the right direction but it’s best to not have any illusions that this can be turned around.
We must separate if there’s to be any chance of long term survival here or just leave the country entirely- something I don’t hold against anyone living here doing, this country is downright hostile to the nuclear family, and White people generally, in every way imaginable. To be honest, if Whites cede the 2nd amendment then I think the odds of secession would effectively drop to zero and in that situation I myself would have very little reason to stay here. I hope people stick to their guns in the days ahead, literally, that’s the only thing stopping them from committing mass murder on an industrial scale- something they’ve been openly talking about doing via re-education camps since Trump was elected.
You were right, a lot of people have had bad childhood experinces. No childhood is perfect, however, with the rise of single mother households and blended families, the chaos of family life can get worse. There is no strong father to take charge, combined with the fact that many in these blended families are not related and don’t have loyalty to each other. Many people didn’t grow up in stable families and lack the desire to start there own. Another thing is that both sexes have been burnt in relationships, there is a certain amount of bitternes between the genders, at least with a signifigant amount of people. All of this is just a perfect storm to make to many people apathetic about starting a family.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s unreal to me how hostile and alienating public spaces have become. The mall near me that I’ve gone to since I was a little kid is filled with packs of feral nogs, the chatter of Spanish is everywhere, unfriendly Indians …sometimes it feels like we’re living in some kind of nightmare world for me. How did everyone become so insane to think this was not going to end in tragedy ? God help us.
That “bespectacled schmuck — who doesn’t appear to be far from boomerdom himself,” Dowell Myers, look frighteningly like Tom Hanks, the Ultimate Boomer indeed.
Been saying it FOREVER…..
The only thing that really matters is babies. More babies. All the bickering over philosophy and semantics is pointless. Any able-bodied male in the supposed “movement” that doesn’t have, or isn’t actively trying to have kids…. is a poser or worse (a selfish black-pilled loser). The most radical act of defiance a Caucasian can perform today is to procreate (bonus points for homeschooling). I’ll take 20 white liberal women over one black conservative every time. We are a global minority with a shrinking population. Let that sink in really deep. Our ancestral homelands are being overrun. Our birthrates are in the toilet. We don’t need more Heidegger lectures, we need more white babies. Counter Currents should start a dating site.
The ‘white national anthem’ should be the sound of children playing.
Amren has a link to a white dating site.
I rememeber the moral panic about underage sex back in the early 2000s. Come to think of it, now it’s mostly the oldest generations asking about finding significant others. My generation (from early to late millennials) could already see families of our peers being sundered by divorces and a rapid rise of meaningless flings. Today’s navigation through the dating market can feel like traversing a minefield of emotional disorders, internet-boosted narcissism, neediness and petty infidelity. I really can’t blame people who throw their hands in the air and declare they’re done with this carousel. Add cheap forms of escapism and you often feel better off on your own (one reason MGTOW got popular). Thankfully, support from the family is still a thing here, so we don’t suffer from an epidemic of completely alienated individuals.
Males would need to reclaim their masculinity, start families, band together and rebuild their communities if they ever want to restore some semblance of normalcy. With the social fabric unraveling, nuclear family is practically doomed at his point. Look at those who outbreed whites, there are no nuclear families there, all generations help each other, extended cousin networks make sure no one is really alone when a disaster strikes. When islam dominates in Europe, it wouldn’t be through sheer numbers alone. Muslims will have inter-generational solidarity and a social safety net, that will be attractive for the last whites left on the liberal wasteland. Herding goats might sound like a crappy future, but you won’t be alone and your numerous relatives will be there for you.
Cost of living + cost of raising children + modern women + family courts = MGTOW.
“White people should fuck as recklessly and irresponsibly as POCs” is certainly a take. Leave it to Mr. Goad to identify a contrarian view and defy you to contradict it. He’s smarter than me so I’m not going to take the bait.
Well OK, I’ll nibble at it.
My default position is I hate everyone, regardless of skin color, and then I wait for the person to prove me wrong. Even as a full-blown Dutch/Irish whitey myself, I don’t look at other white people like we’re in some sort of special brotherhood. The world needs more of the ‘right’ kind of white person, yes, but right now we are positively BLOATED with the ‘ignorant asshole’ variety. I don’t know if we can stomach many more of them.
You’ve got a point.
I believed every word of “The Population Bomb” when I first read it, and still do as far as only the Third World is concerned. And thank heavens, the commies in China believed in it too, or we’d have three times the number of Chinese enemies floating out to sea to come live with us. Well, I took it seriously, and so did most every other intelligent White person who read it, and it still stands as the ‘truth’ about what is really wrong with our environment on the planet. But, unfortunately, by taking it to heart — because White people can read as well as use their knowledge to project abstract theories into the future — which most non-Whites are incapable of doing — that we are the ones not having babies to further burden the planet. And God forbid anyone say that last sentence out loud in our Cancel Culture haven that is America and Europe today.
So, we know the problem, but we cannot verbalize the problem, without pointing out that it’s the danged Third World baby-mamas that are causing the problem. OMG! That Racism! We Whites, on the other hand are being fed the garbage that we alone are the cause of all the environmental problems on earth including killing off all the whales and cuckoos and koalas worldwide. So, until we can deflate the shrill shrieking of the Democratic women, who still wear the little pink caps to remind us of their fury at being forced into reproduction rather than breaking glass ceilings, we must cast our mating nets much further and wider than we are currently doing. Best of luck, to all the upright men reading these missives daily — don’t let yourself be blamed by the dearth of new little squalling brats, but this one can be blamed pretty squarely on the newly broad-shouldered horde of career women that this country (and Europe) is producing.
As Michael pointed out above, lots of young white people are having sex, the problem is that it’s become detached from anything beyond pleasure and status, facilitated by birth control. In today’s culture, it’s become much more important for a man to be able to say that he’s screwed a lot of different women than it is to build an actual relationship with one woman. For women it’s important to feel the sense of liberation that they feel modern society owes them that they live as sexual libertines until the last possible moment of their fertility, or even after. This is part of the reason why it’s so ridiculous that parts of the Dissident Right promote “game” culture, which is only designed to help a guy get laid in a one-night stand situation, not to find an actual partner he can have a family with. Obviously family is the last thing today’s sexual culture is aimed at, it’s just part of the overall hedonism of late neoliberal capitalism. Until that culture changes, there’s not much hope of bucking the trend. Just telling people to have more sex isn’t going to do it.
Every study I’ve seen, and I’ve seen quite a few, says young people are having less sex than previous generations did. The only sexual activity that seems to be on the upswing is masturbation. I’d be interested in seeing any statistical evidence that says otherwise.
I suspect that documented lower T levels and plummeting sperm counts have much more to do with this problem than porn or one-night stands do.
Every study I’ve seen, and I’ve seen quite a few, says young people are having less sex than previous generations did.
If more sex = more babies, then the most sexually active people would have the most kids. But where does the data say that?
The link between frequency of sexual activity and childbirth is fudged by the availability of contraception and “a woman’s right to choose.” Women are in total control of their fertility. That’s the difference between now and the year of your birth.
The CDC data linked to in the Atlantic article pertains to high schoolers. If 100% were sexually active and were popping out babies, that would mean more teen pregnancies. That would mean more boys raised by single mothers, and thus more “soy boys.” The problem with young men is that they have been socialized by mom at home and female teachers at school.
The solution is not for men to work harder for feminism. The solution is to scale back feminism. Demanding that men “learn game” and increase their testosterone levels won’t make a dent in the birth rate as long as women can terminate pregnancies and take birth control pills.
Hello Jim;
One point regarding environmental contamination affecting fertility that is never raised is the presence of birth control chemicals in drinking water. I remember only once (and that was on PBS!) where the issue was raised regarding water pollution. Apparently, traces of birth control are omnipresent in fresh water supplies just like there are trace amounts of valium, opiates and other drugs commonly found in drinking water.
Whether these minute traces of birth control have a cumulative effect on fertility is an interesting question that no one wants to ask. Birth control is probably the most widely used and popular prescription drug class in the U.S. and politically it would be impossible to ban them. The presence of birth control in the environment is well worth studying, it may be the main culprit in declining fertility.
Masturbation and wage slavery define the lives of young folks.
I use to joke that as president my immigration policy would be…only good looking chicks get in, all others OUT. I stand by it today, I don’t care about where you’re from or how skilled you are, only good looking chicks get in. My other directive would allow females at 18 in the bars, keep the young chicks in the bars !!!!
This is fun rhetoric but it doesn’t seriously address the problem at all.
One may dismiss it as prudishness, but it’s quite obvious – so obvious you have to purposefully ignore it – that pornography, masturbation, and contraception do not lead to pregnancy.
But those things are sort of the “consolation prize” for the breakdown of family formation which has a huge amount to do with economics, but even more importantly, society and culture.
Previously, women gained a great deal of status by getting married and having and raising children. Now, women lose status by getting married and having and raising children. Motherhood – white motherhood – is demonized.
Marriage is also demonized, as the entire culture tells women to divorce or break up their relationships on the slightest whim. She is shamed for staying with her man and praised for leaving her man.
Men do what they can and get what they can but there is no incentive for them to form a family either. It is economically impossible for young white men to be the husbands and fathers like the previous generation – forget a mortgage, look at the costs to rent an apartment.
This is a marathon that will take generations. Some practical strategies for having more babies…
1. Move to the Northwest, New England or a whiter part of your state.
2. Get European citizenship by descent: https://www.sovereignman.com/lifestyle-design/five-places-you-could-obtain-citizenship-6359/#citizenship_by_descent_countries
3. Have high standards but be realistic. In this age of decadence, we’re all damaged goods to one extent or another.
4. Consider an Eastern European bride and/or moving to Europe.
5. Take care of yourself, your own business, and be on your best behavior. Be a worthy mate and you’ll likely have choices.
6. If you already have kids, be subtle when countering the propaganda. Kids are born to rebel.
7. Support or participate in European culture: Music, dance, visual arts, languages, religion, etc.
8. Support or participate in White ethnic organizations (German, Italian, etc). They’re not only important for preserving culture and connections to the homeland, but they’re socially acceptable outlets for expressing pride. As a bonus, you might find a mate at one of the galas.
Less reading more (white) breeding. The only way out of this is breeding and white flight (which is a good thing). White men and women need to make lots of white babies and educate them to make more white babies. Everything else will sort itself out… trust our genetic inheritance. Put down the freaking Heidegger and start planning your family! Our enemies hate us most when we breed and ignore them.
I just finished reading Adjustment Day (great review of it here, https://counter-currents.com/2018/08/a-greater-gift-than-fight-club/) . “Stop reading, start breeding” is law in the ethnostate of Caucasia, to hilarious effect. Not sure I want to live in a world populated with even more idiots, even if they are all white.
Raising the birthrate requires scaling back women’s rights. If today’s men had 100x the testosterone as men two generations ago it wouldn’t make much of a difference as long as women were “free” to pursue a university degree, careers and the ability to control when they get pregnant.
I swear, there are some guys on the right who want to live in an inverted Saudi Arabia. They want to give women all the sexual and personal freedom in the world, but make a man’s role even more burdensome and thankless. That’s not going to happen. Men are not going to spontaneously become macho he-men as long as women are socializing boys and raising boys as single mothers.
Wow, gen X dude is so edgy, he uses the F word. ..how about pointing to solutions for those who want to have families but are stymied by the economic and/or dating marketplaces?
Good point that the problem can’t be premarital sex because young people are having less of it these days, but their parents’ premarital sex may have weakened their parents’ pair bonding psychology, causing them to divorce and create an unstable family life. The sort of unstable family situations that follow divorce tend to exacerbate a kid’s personality characteristics, and if the kid is an introvert, then he or she sometimes withdraws and becomes super introverted–almost hermit-like. Thus many sex partners indirectly can lead to problems for future generations. I am going to find that study about pair bonding. It is in a book I read a while ago. Google used to be great for looking things up, but lately it seems to steer you toward leftist propaganda or corporate trash culture.
In any case, I would agree that premarital sex is better for perpetuating the race than none ever. At least it gets you a step closer to babies. Thomas Aquinas would probably say premarital sex is less sinful than porn viewing because it was less deviated away from the biblically sanctioned way. If the premarital sex can be confined to just one person it would seem to be best both biblically and for strongest pair bonding.
The lack of sex going on mostly isn’t the guys’ fault. Women are messing things up wholely out of their own initiative, demanding their guy make as much as their overpaid fathers once he hits 25. It is irrational because he won’t tend to make as much as her father til he is in his 40s. Trying to explain this to the average girl is pointless because most of them only listen to authority figures, and the authority figures in universities are too busy going on viagra fueled vacations to care about their problems. Some women who are very intelligent and/or who have good personalities may listen, but most will just accuse you of mansplaining and either get mad or become disinterested. If you get a high status position and appear in one of those TEDx talks, being all melodramatic and having an audience of proper midwits, then they may listen. In all seriousness, I can sort of understand the whole social proofing thing. When Richard Spencer first came onto the scene, he made white advocacy seem like something the average upper middle class white guy could do much better than David Duke, who had a strong southern accent and was older and associated with taboo movements of the past. However, women value social proofing too much, and now they are suffering for it.
There is hope though. Women are easier on guys who are younger than 25, so the best advice for both men and women is to prioritize dating when in their early twenties, but then again how does one convince them to have kids at those ages when entry level salaries are half of what the girl’s 50 year old parents make and when she has certain expectations about how to live?
The 3rd paragraph is spot-on, as far as I’m concerned. Average Joes aren’t going to be in a position to start a family until they’re almost 40 these days. Therefore, kin-women give up on their peers, and are then skipping over that and are out for a sport f**k. Well, women’s criteria for a sport f**k are entirely different than for a stable relationship: that’s why they go for these garbage Tyrones and Habibs that treat them in a decidedly “anti-feminist” way.
We can’t all be Tyrone.
I consider mudsharking to be an exaggerated threat (and I know something about infamous coal burning by expat polish women). Incidentally, white nationalists tend to be obssessed with black sexuality to a point where you get the impression, that around every corner there is a white woman getting ravished by a “Tyrone” or other habibi. As for becoming “Tyrones”, it’s impractical since it requires parasitizing your fellow whites who keep sticking by the rules. Cads are opportunist scavengers and predators who don’t contribute to proliferation of the ethnos, instead circling around and picking off progressively weaker defenses, until everything collapses. And no, accelerationism won’t guarantee any improvement.
Decoupling from the failing system and laying foundations for future clans/communities is a better strategy than simply enjoying decay and extracting as much pleasure as you can. Gather dissaffected men you need and promise them poon in exchange for loyalty and adherence to new rules. Only then being a “bad boy” has any prospect of salvaging this mess. Manosphere has problem with maturing into next phase, because they try to find imperfect ersatz for family, tribe and clan. You won’t build anything lasting if you persist in LARPing as a warband/gang and have no strategy to eventually convert your swords into plowshares. Even the most warlike nomads eventually returned to their tents and herds.
One of the main vectors is that conservatives are anti-abortion. I’m not one for government welfare, but it would save a country a lot of money in the long run if getting an abortion was easier than getting an Obama phone.
Right after Roe vs Wade, conservatives should have demanded more abortion clinics, with no wait time, no age limit, one hour in and out. Especially in the hood.
India used to give away a free transistor radio to any male who’d get a vasectomy. How about you get a free iPod for getting fixed, and you get 100 dollars worth of iTunes store credit for any abortion.
We could have celebrity DJs and rappers guest star to perform in the abortion clinics’ waiting rooms. Plus have free WiFi, and a free Uber that picks you up at home and drops you off after.
There could be an app. Schedule your abortion from anywhere.
On another topic, it’s a misnomer than there are no smart blacks. I’ve met smart blacks. Though all of them had one white parent.
The destruction of the traditional nuclear family is probably the biggest culprit. Prior to the advent of the “sexual revolution”, feminism, and cultural Marxism, men and women knew what their roles were. No sex before marriage and no divorce before one spouse was convicted of a felony (adultery, etc.), insured that a reasonably stable environment for the difficult task of raising children was maintained. Raising children is a full time job. Mothers breast fed and nurtured their small children creating a strong psychological bond. Fathers provided clothing, food, and shelter, and discipline (something that few in this country have ever experienced). Discipline means setting rules and punishments in advance and adhering to them no matter what. Corporal punishment is necessary, but tempered by the children’s vulnerability (you need to make it worth their while not to violate that rule again but not cause permanent physical harm). Beating the kid because you’ve had a lousy day or are angry is NOT discipline (NEVER administer corporal punishment when you are angry). As children mature, they should be given increasing responsibility and help with both of the mother’s and father’s responsibilities. Mother, father, and children are ALL part of the same unit with the same goal – producing mature, productive, responsible adults. Esoteric cultural Marxist bullshit like “self actualization” etc. shouldn’t even enter the equation. We ALL must learn to do what is necessary to fulfill our responsibilities even if it’s not fun or what we really want to do. Men need to be masculine and women need to be feminine. And they both need to pass on all of the knowledge, principles, and skills needed to be mature productive responsible adults to their children. This ISN’T the government’s job (school included). As long as we promote selfishness and laziness we’re only going to produce irresponsible neutered “npcs” who’s motto is “if it feels good, do it”.
ANTHONY KIMBALL: God bless you. one of our ‘constraints’ has always been breeding for quality over quantity…. which doesn’t offer the same insulatory buffer of numbers as the latter…. but for society/civilization not only to be maintained/continue but flourish/advance, that selective breeding for quality, exhibited in IQ/mental acuity to accomplish true progress requires mate selection for innate ability as well adaptive behaviors (access to resources/ability to defend them) that will support it.
the stock has been defiled by the hippie/hook up cultures.. quality pickin’s are slim on both sides of the equation. ~ mama to 3 20something daughters.
Dear Dr. Greg Johnson, may I request that you change the url of this article so that the f-word is not part of the url?? I’m trying to post the link in Stormfront. Since Stormfront software automatically converts the f-word into asterisks, thus rendering the url link useless. Hence, I’d appreciate if the current url could be tweaked a little to avoid problems posting links. Thanks so much.
Use a link shortener.
Also, Stormfront is full of fucking pussies if that’s actually true.
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Can you provide a url for Stormfront? I can’t find it.
“Creating new people, by having children, is such a fundamental part of life that it is rarely thought to require a justification. Most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. For most of human history, up until very recently, procreation had been an inevitable consequence of sex rather than the calculated decision to bring new people into existence. Those who do make a premeditated decision to have a child may do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child’s sake. While there are many good people who go to great lengths to protect their children from harm, few of them realise that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring them into existence in the first place. We infrequently contemplate the pain, frustration, disappointment, anxiety, grief and death that await any new born child. We cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be certain that at least some of them are guaranteed to occur. On the other hand, none of this befalls the non-existent. Only those who exist suffer harm.
All things considered, a charmed life is incredibly rare. For every one such life, there are millions of wretched lives. Some people, such as those in impoverished countries, know that their child will be among the unfortunate, yet proceed to create them anyway. Nobody knows, however, that their child will be one of the (comparatively) lucky few. Great suffering could await any person that is brought into existence, and even the most privileged among us could beget a child who might suffer unbearably in any number of ways. They could develop a degenerative disease, be afflicted with mental illness, be maimed, raped, tortured, or murdered brutally. The optimist surely bears the burden of justifying this procreational Ponzi scheme, given that existence confers no net advantage over never being born. It is therefore hard to see how the significant risk of serious harm can ever be justified. Procreators are ultimately playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun, one they aim not at themselves, but at their future offspring. Furthermore, if we count not only the severe harms but also the more routine inconveniences and struggles of daily life, which are seldom considered, we find that the deck is stacked against us to a staggering degree. We are given an infinitesimal amount of time to spend doing the things we enjoy, in a universe where time is an inexhaustible commodity. The sheer scale of such wasted potential is painful to contemplate.
Even the extent to which our desires and goals are fulfilled creates a misleadingly optimistic impression of the quality of our lived experience. This is because we unknowingly practice a form of self censorship in the formulation of our desires and goals. While many of them are never fulfilled, there are many more potential desires that we do not even formulate, because we know that they are unattainable. We know, for instance, that we cannot live for a few hundred years and that we cannot gain a genius level of expertise in all the subjects we are interested in. We therefore set goals that are more realistic, and in so doing we hope to live a life that is, by human standards, a long and fulfilling one, and we hope to gain expertise in some narrowly focused area. Even if our realistic desires and goals are fulfilled, our lives still fall abysmally short of how well they would be going if the formulation of our desires had not been artificially restricted.
Further insight into the poor quality of human life can be gained by considering various features that are thought to be components of a good life and noting what limited quantities of these characterize even the best lives. Knowledge and understanding are widely thought to be goods, and people are often in awe of how much knowledge and understanding some people have. However, on the spectrum from total ignorance to omniscience, even the cleverest, most educated people are much closer to the unfortunate end of that spectrum. Compared to what we do know and understand, there are innumerable things we do not know and understand. If knowledge is such a good thing and we have so little of it, our species is not fairing very well at all. Similarly, we consider longevity to be a good thing, assuming said life is above a minimum quality threshold, and yet even the longest human lives are ultimately fleeting. If longevity is such a good thing, then a life in full vigour lasting a thousand years would be much better than a life of eighty or ninety years, especially when those final years are marred by physical and mental decline. The longest human lives are much closer to one year than to a thousand years. It is even more distant from several thousand. Compared against such hypothetical standards, we do not fare well at all.
Most of us are oblivious to the heavy preponderance of negativity in our lives, because we have accommodated to the human condition. Our expectations and evaluations are rooted in this unfortunate baseline, and we therefore fail to see the terrible truth that hides in plain sight. Longevity, for example, is judged relative to the longest actual human lifespans and not relative to an ideal standard. The same is true of knowledge, understanding, moral goodness, and aesthetic appreciation. Similarly, we routinely expect recovery to take longer than injury, and thus we judge the quality of life on that baseline, even though it is an appalling fact of life that the odds are stacked against us as much as they are. Because the negative features I describe are common to all lives (though some lives are considerably more miserable than others), they play very little role in how people assess the quality of their lives. It is true for everybody that the worst pains are more intense than the best pleasures, and that pains often last much longer. We all have to work hard to ward off unpleasantness and seek out positive experiences. Thus, when people judge the quality of their own lives by comparing them to the lives of others, they will neglect to include these universal features in the equation.
It is often suggested that the bad things in life are necessary in order to appreciate the good things, or at least to offer some form of contrast in order to appreciate them fully. In this view, we can only enjoy pleasures as much as we do because we also experience pain. Similarly, our achievements are more satisfying if we have to work hard to attain them, and fulfilled desires mean more to us because we know that desires are not always fulfilled. There are many problems with this argument. First of all, these claims are not always true. There is much pain that serves no purpose at all, such as labour pains or the pain caused by terminal diseases. While the pain associated with kidney stones might now lead somebody to seek medical help, such pain served no purpose for most of human history, since there was no treatment available. There are also a few pleasures we can enjoy without having to experience pain. Pleasant tastes, for instance, do not require any experience of pain or unpleasantness. Similarly, many achievements can be satisfying even if they involve less striving, or even no effort at all. In fact, there may indeed be a special satisfaction in the *ease* of attainment. There may be some individual variation. Maybe some people are more capable of enjoying pleasure without having to experience pain, and more capable of taking satisfaction in achievements that come with ease. Second, insofar as the good things in life do require a contrast in order to be fully appreciated, it is not clear that this appreciation requires quite so *much* bad as there is. We do not require millions of people suffering from chronic pain, infectious diseases and tumours in order to appreciate the good things in life. We could enjoy our achievements without having to work quite so hard to attain them.
To the extent that the bad things in life really are necessary, our lives are much worse than they would be if the bad things were not necessary. There are both real and conceivable beings in which nociceptive (specialized neural) pathways detect and transmit noxious stimuli, resulting in avoidance without being mediated by pain. This is true of plants and simple animal organisms, and it is also true of the reflex arc in more complex animals, such as humans. We can also imagine beings much more rational than ourselves, in which aversive behaviour is mediated by a rational faculty rather than a capacity to feel pain. In such beings, a noxious stimulus would be received but not felt (at least not in the way pain is), and the rational faculty would, as reliably as pain, induce the being to withdraw. It would be much better to be that sort of being than to be our sort of being. Similarly, it would be better to be the sort of being who could appreciate the good things in life without having to experience bad things, and without having to work exceptionally hard to attain the good things. Lives in which there is no gain without pain are much worse than lives in which there could be the same gain without pain.
Upon even casual reflection, there seems something rather absurd about the earnestness of our pursuits. We are born, we live, we suffer along the way, and then we die, obliterated for eternity. It’s hardly surprising that so many people ask what this is all about. Our lives are entirely ephemeral on the cosmic scale, but we need not step back quite that far to see that there seems something futile about our endless strivings, which are not altogether different from a hamster on its wheel. Much of our lives are filled with recurring mundane activities that we would not choose to waste our time with if they weren’t a necessity. The purpose of these chores is to keep the whole cycle going, whether it be working, shopping, cooking, feeding, defecating, abluting, sleeping, laundering, dishwashing, bill-paying, or tedious engagements with innumerable bureaucracies. Even if these tasks are thought to serve other goals, the attainment of those goals only yields further goals to be pursued. This cycle continues until one dies, but the treadmill is intergenerational because people continue to have children, thereby creating new mill-treaders. This has continued for generations, and will continue indefinitely until humanity meets its inevitable end in extinction, which is the way of all species, and it is hubris to think we will be an exception. It seems like the ultimate exercise in futility, a long and repetitive journey to nowhere.
If we take a sober look at the human condition, unclouded by sentimentality, we see an unpleasant picture. However, there are powerful biological drives against fully recognizing how awful our situation is, which explains why so many people are able to put it out of their minds for much of the time. This is a mixed blessing, since those who do not sufficiently feel the weight of the human predicament serve as vectors for its transmission to new generations. It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm, and it is even less likely that many people will stop having children. It is far more likely that my views will be either ignored or dismissed. Since this response will account for a great deal of suffering between now and the demise of humanity, those who issue it cannot be considered philanthropic. I am by no means implying that everyone who dismisses my arguments is a bad person, but their dismissal does betray a callous indifference to the harm of coming into existence.
Life’s big questions are big in the sense that they are momentous. However, contrary to appearances, they are not big in the sense of being unanswerable. It is only that the answers are generally unpalatable. There is no great mystery, but there is plenty of horror. Life is bad, but so too is death. Of course, life is not bad in *every* way, and neither is death bad in *every* way. However, both life and death are, in crucial respects, awful. Together they form an existential vise, the wretched grip that enforces our predicament, from which there is no escape. Incidentally, few prospective parents consider the aesthetic impact of their potential lineage. How many more producers of excrement and urine, flatulence, sweat, mucus, vomit, blood and tears do we really need? How much more human waste do we need to process? How many more corpses do we need to dispose of? It would be an aesthetic improvement if there were fewer people.” – David Benatar
I remember Gore Vidal said if you want to destroy a nation’s agricultural population, give everyone a college education, because once someone goes to college they’ll never become a farmer. I say if you want to destroy a nation’s population growth, give the women feminism, because they won’t reproduce.
That being said, I’m 68, unmarried and childless, from choice. My grandparents had a load of siblings on either side, but they only had three children between them; my mother, father, and an uncle. My brother and I are childless, although he married at 48, immediately regretted it, and his wife and he adopted a child from Russia…who became a thief, druggie, was in jail, and had a child, and now, at 72, my brother is taking care of his granddaughter, and it’s wearing him out.
A lot of people in my generation never married. My dearest girlfriend, who died five years ago, was childless, and didn’t want children. Nor has another friend. A lot of women became indoctrinated (or influenced) not to have children, then got regrets when older. I know some who adopted kids from China, etc. My brother actually likes children, but in the crucial 20’s, when you should settle down, he screwed around and kept girlfriend after girlfriend.
This has been the world of my brother and me. My uncle, on the other hand, had four children, they in turn have a dozen children, and that line of the family is alive and kicking, as mine will die out.
I’ve never had a lot of sex. I’m partly shy, and because I didn’t make a lot of money, was never an attractive prospect to women, and I was in the army and drifted a lot in the (again) crucial 20’s. But I’ve led a satisfying, happy, life. My girlfriend who died helped complete my soul, but we never had sex. I didn’t miss it, and we enjoyed ourselves without sex. To a lot of people of our generation, settling down just didn’t seem to work.
What has this to do with young people now? Maybe little, but I think the more individual and affluent a society becomes, the less urge is there to procreate. In The Birth of the Modern, Paul Johnson noted that even in the early 1800’s, large families in Europe were decreasing, and when people had the means to limit their families, they did.
That being said, I do see a number of young people with children, and families together, and they seem happy. Maybe not in numbers needed to increase the population, but they are continuing. Even Jim has a child (as noted in his last podcast), and he admits it gives him great joy. I could have learned that joy, but I didn’t. Michael Savage said no man really wants to be a father, but it has to be impressed upon him, especially by other men he knows, that he needs to do this to complete himself.
When I traveled in Germany in the 90’s, I noted posters everywhere of a young man and woman, naked, and the poster read ‘eins und eins ist drei’. One and one is three. It was a government program to encourage people to have children. It didn’t really help the plummeting German birthrate, but at least they were aware of the problem and admitted it, unlike us.
Before that, Gunter Grass wrote a book called Head Births: Or, The Germans are Dying Out, where a couple kept debating whether to have a child or not. Grass noted if there were as many Germans as Chinese, the world would be terrified. A kind of intellectual guilt and masochism,
people too wrapped up in themselves to conceive, a sort of intellectual luxury that now seems quaint when Merkel is purposely destroying the country. Jim probably has the right idea: stop intellectualizing and just do it.
Sorry I couldn’t help out, but I’m not upset over it.
When contemplating the extremely tough lives most people led before about the mid-nineteenth century, I used to wonder what the hell kept them going, why they weren’t simply overwhelmed by hardship. But I now see I was wrong, and it is comfort which stifles the will to live and procreate.
I agree completely. If only children weren’t absolutely insufferable.
Yeah, but they’ll grow on ya.
I’m sure it’s different when they’re your own. I’d always heard the best form of birth control is other people’s kids. That has definitely proven to be correct.
Heh.
I watch Blue Lagoon last night.
I think the scheduler was thinking the same thing. The miracle of the beautiful pair of castaways having a beautiful baby out of pure instinct and love is very timely.
Money is one of the barriers. That’s why we need to form communities so we can share our skills, knowledge and resources for the betterment of the whole.
Women have absolute control over when, how many, and with whom, and lookie here, birth rates are in the toilet.
Either we need a patriarchy, as in men have authority over women, like the Amish, and their 6 kids per woman, or we are going to lose our civilizations to non whites.
When women have the option of acquiring wealth via other than making babies, that is what they will do.
Either we install patriarchy, or bring on the artificial womb, which is illegal under current law, but the tech is there.
Turd Flinging Monkey has researched the problem with fertility rates quite a bit. He discusses how the Amish have almost 7 kids per woman. He mentions how they have a patriarchal culture. He mentions how girls are pulled out of school in the 8th grade, because educated women are women who have better things to do than make babies. TFM says if we want high birth rates, we have to take women’s rights away. Is he wrong? I don’t think he is.
People talk about how Hungary has raised their birth rates by paying women to have babies. This has raised their birth rate from 1.2 to 1.5, in ten years. 😂 They are spending a ton of money to do this, and it barely moved the needle. If we do this in America it’ll be the low end of the gene pool taking them up on it.
The answer is the one “Muh Wheat Fields” crowd doesn’t want to hear. Women need to be placed under the authority of their fathers, until that authority is transferred to their husbands. We all see the result of women being in charge of reproduction, and that is fucking criminals or some other variant of badboy, because he gives her the tingles. And far too often ending up a One and Done single mother with spawn of questionable seed quality.
Getting married also leads to increased sex. This has been proven in studies over the years. Being married also encourages working together with your spouse to achieve goals such as home ownership and ample retirement savings. Swinging singles have none of these motivations and it is the result of federal policies discouraging married life. Whites really need to mate with whites and not stray off with others. It’s becoming a crisis.
The answer is simply a constant pressure on couples to have kids. Everyone should be nagging a couple that don’t have kids to have some. Even friends outside of the family should start asking a couple when they will have kids and the pressure should not stop until the couple has at least three kids. It should be considered weird that someone decided not to have kids.
Maybe you should write a book called The New Cathars, though I don’t think people would get the reference in the title. What about “Monks and Nuns for Neoliberalism”?
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