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Have you heard of the “Childfree” movement?
That’s right. The cultural fallacy that children are burdens, animals are environmentally friendly ”kids” and no parenting is better than bad parenting has an official meeting place. Quite literally, their whole mission is to throw (jettison is probably a better word) the baby out with the bathwater!
Summary: the Childfree movement is made up of people who can’t have kids or don’t want kids (for various reasons), and are tired of a cultural stigma for being sterile and/ or childless. Hence, they’re not child-less–they’re childfree! Weeee!!! Now doesn’t a sterilized population sound fun?
Actually, no. This hurts my heart, soul, mind and body more than I can really say. It’s evil organized and incarnate at worst, and cognitive dissonance at best. I mean really, do these people hate themselves, because it seems to me that unless they were dropped from another planet, they themselves were children once, and oops–thank you to the “ferility idolizers” that were their parents!
The society members site various and sundry, but radically fatuous, reasons for their choice to embrace sterility: bad parenting, overpopulation, environmental and economic concerns related to the formers, but the most honest reason is plain old devoted narcissim.
I cannot possibly address this narcisistic fundamentalism in one post, but let me start with one thing: overpopulation. Overpopulation is so passé. De-population is the new overpopulation. It’s the new crisis. And hello! It’s not all that new. Just because Oprah hasn’t done a show on it, Sheryl Crow hasn’t sung about it, and the Economist only just got it in the news doesn’t mean it’s a passing worry. Depopulation is at crisis levels in Western Europe and even China-the-vast is foreseeing the cripling wound of sterility that will effect their economy dissasterously.
This isn’t just the rally cry of fertility fanatics, either, but now is the intellectual clarion cry of the demographer, the doomsday prophecy of the secular uber-intellectual. Take, for example, Andrew Pollard. He’s the director of EMP Intelligence Service, a UK based Competitive Intelligence consultancy which focuses on, among other things, population trends. He gave a talk at the Pro Life Action League’s 2006 Conference, “Contraception is Not the Answer.” Let me tell you, I was sure the overpopulation myth had run it’s course, but listening to his talk compelled me that not only is overpopulation a fallacy, but depopulation is a crisis of epic proportions, the likes of which we have never seen.
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