this didn't "happen", we caused it first, children disappeared from daily life most women turn 30 without ever holding a baby (they don't have siblings or cousins, and young babies have been removed from shared spaces), never changed a diaper or watched one up close. you cant want what you've never seen second, we killed the single income. the average family needs both parents working just to get to the end of the month, so raising a family well went from hard to something practically impossible (2-3 months of maternity leave should be considered a crime against humanity). then schools and media, the whole cathedral, all pushed towards the same direction in a systematic brainwashing effort: pushing every girl at the career, motherhood turned into that despicable thing you settle for when the better options run out, "a smaller life". nothing worth desiring, and if you do you must be ostracised social media just finished the job. presented childfree as freedom and ideal life, filmed the worst four seconds of a mothers day and called it a warning or "here's motherhood" and underneath all of it, we removed people from history no ancestors you owe anything, no descendants you're building for, just one atomic self detached from any sense of continuity. one life with no purpose other than its own selfish goals especially for western people who have been taught that their ancestors are the most evil humans who ever existed someone with no past and no future has no reason to see themselves as part of history, and everything they do revolves around their own pleasure why would you carry something you were raised to be ashamed of? so a quarter of women raised in captivity selecting for civilizational suicide becomes inevitable the idea that this was a conscious choice is delusional. we are the first species in history to get everything it ever wanted: safety, medicine, abundance, ninety good years, and the result is suicide. everything else alive still manages to reproduce through famine and plagues. we got paradise and stopped anyone shutting off their own survival drive with no threat in sight is definitionally suicidal and that's where we are now

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