Russian President Vladimir Putin encourages early marriage to address declining birth rates, citing North Caucasus traditions during his recent call-in show.
Having children is the ultimate endorsement of the future. It signals hope that things will get better. Such a belief is no longer rational. Young couples don’t have houses or job security or wage growth or social stability. Every metric is trending downward. We’re living in a boring neofeudalist dystopia of cancerous idiocracy, nihilism, and open corruption. Cultists run the world. Religious cultists. Political cultists. Celebrity cultists.
Having children is the ultimate endorsement of the future. It signals hope that things will get better. Such a belief is no longer rational. Young couples don’t have houses or job security or wage growth or social stability. Every metric is trending downward. We’re living in a boring neofeudalist dystopia of cancerous idiocracy, nihilism, and open corruption. Cultists run the world. Religious cultists. Political cultists. Celebrity cultists.
I remember watching “children of men” and thinking it was far from futuristic.