It's because the culture pressuring you just wants a constant stream of warm bodies to swell the population to keep the economy chugging along and doesn't give a shit if each of those new generations of humans is more miserable than the lasthttps://twitter.com/Alix_Dreams1/status/1331472645825630209 …
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Breeding cult mentality doesn't think of the welfare of individual humans, or even the aggregated welfare of humans as a group It's loyalty to an abstraction - to Capital, to the United States, to the Global Economy, to the Human Race, to Putting a Human Footprint on Mars etc
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It's a goddamn false god that cares only about its own abstract glory - fecundity enough to fill the universe with human bodies and build shopping malls and parking lots as a monument to its power And its priests see you and your children as only fuel to burn in its belly
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(I feel the need to wax effulgent with the purple prose here because, well, the cultural conservative side of this argument has tons of purple prose on their side and they deploy it ruthlessly)
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("You come from a chain of ancestors, a bloodline lasting thousands of years, and you're going to let it sputter to a halt to do what? Backpack through Europe? Play video games? Spend 40 years 'finding yourself' and die?" Such arguments still do succeed in making me feel bad)
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I feel like having transitioned as a teenager and thus having walked willingly down a path where I was sealed off from natalism, was like throwing a wrench into Moloch. By force now my destiny is my own.
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Having your formative experience being seizing the reins of supposed biological destiny itself and directing your physical form down a different path does impact your outlook on what life is for.
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