Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Leading the Counter-Woke Revolution | Konstantin Kisin | EP 333" video.
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"When you start talking about family you start talking about the normative point of view, you must have children"
You do realize, don't you, that the trade-off for not having children is the collapse of your society? Since I have a stake in that, I'm perfectly comfortable establishing that as a norm.
What we do about those who do not follow the norm, is an interesting question. There's a huge spectrum, from the absurd extreme of e**cution, to coercive participation, to justified disincentives like depriving the childless of old age benefits, to taxing them at the level of expense of 2.1 children, to portraying them as villains in popular media, to denying them any socially acceptable access to s*x, to merely lecturing them about duty, to neglecting to represent them at all in popular constructive media.
The distance up that spectrum we should embrace, should depend on the degree to which we've fallen below a 2.1 replacement rate. The idea that we're not enforcing this norm at all, is a predictable disaster that future societies will see as one of this era's most foolish ideas.
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"The Christian apocalypse is a spiritual reality that occurs in some heavenly place" - You need to read CS Lewis' "Doctrine of the World's Last Night"
"For what comes is Judgment: happy are those whom it finds labouring in their vocations, whether they were merely going out to feed the pigs or laying good plans to deliver humanity a hundred years hence from some great evil. The curtain has indeed now fallen. Those pigs will never in fact be fed, the great campaign against White Slavery or Governmental Tyranny will never in fact proceed to victory. No matter; you were at your post when the Inspection came."
Also, from Lewis' "Living in an Atomic Age"
“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
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