Increasingly convinced that the end of the family (whose failure to end was the great disappointment of 20th century...
Increasingly convinced that the end of the family (whose failure to end was the great disappointment of 20th century modernization, and whose regeneration [& even strengthening, as parents now psychologically condition their children to capture them and not just rely on control of resource bottlenecks] is upstream of modern evils like SJWism and Apple fucking w/ Tumblr) is going to involve a country that requires a population buildup (after war, disease, or decadence, or in the face of a challenge they’ll need military manpower against) faster than their existing population can support individual in-home production of children, leading to a generation with no experience of family to attempt to reproduce going forward.
I suppose the fall of Roe v. Wade and the restriction of abortion might be of aid in America as more unplanned pregnancies go to birth and children return to being something that happens, rather than conditional on a plan parents’re invested in.
I suppose the precedents to look to here would be Cusceau’s Romania and Hoxha’s Albania, communist countries who undertook natalist policies to build up manpower as a guard against Soviet annexation.
Or maybe there’s something in the Ottoman devrisme system by which children were taken from subject populations and raised institutionally to become an elite army and administrative corps, though the whole point there was they were distinct from core civilian cultures, which they didn’t remake in their image even when when they were a power-holding class.
So in general, look to Albania.
Dude, you can’t bioproduce kids fast enough to use them as soldiers for an imminent crisis, we’ve already been in this crisis of sub-replacement birth rates and the solution has just been immigrants.
Otoh, Dems in general and feminists in particular have gotten much less invested in abortion rights and much more likely to consider abortion bans as politically wise or tolerable. It feels like something nobody’s willing to look directly at what it means yet though.
Maybe not immediate, but my point there is Albania and Romania were in fact efforts, in real life, in historical memory, to build manpower for geopolitical strength against a threat.
Of course, the issue is they were, to use Paradox understanding, vassals of the USSR, which even if it saw and understood what they were doing might accept the buildup of manpower (replacing WWII losses) that might be used to break free because that same manpower would be on their Warsaw Pact side in a fight with NATO
What feminists are you seeing this from? I know the second wave had some Catholic threads, and if witch-abortionists counted as icons to them, birthing mothers (& midwives &ct) did too, but I haven’t noticed any of the recent stuff you’re invoking