I find most explanations of the West's suppressed fertility to be marginal or mythological. (Leftist explanations don't count as such at all.)
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Modernism is the result of enemy action, yes. - The universal white male suffrage movement of the early 1800s was snowballed by other progressive agendas and resulted in universal adult franchise. - The Communist Party agenda of the 1920s is almost entirely law today.
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- Going back further, the destructive conceptualization of marriage as romantic love/soul mates rather than a traditional arrangement to exercise the duty and obligation to bear and raise children was the work of bards in the 1500s.
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Making it an obligation is also wrong.
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What I'm saying is that a corrupt political/ideological arrangement resulted in a reaction, which, being reactionary, was simply corrupt in the other direction.
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AFAIK it was considered a duty for thousands of years, as well as just "what you do." Prior to that the science of having babies was not well understood. Are you saying there was a point where people understood procreation but it was not a duty or obligation?
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I'm saying they should have understood duties well enough to not consider it a duty.
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Now this gets interesting. What should be considered duties?
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