tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35141118618144089982008-05-02T13:55:00.000-07:002008-05-02T13:55:00.000-07:002008-05-02T13:55:00.000-07:00<B>Anonymous:</B> <I>The only response to the immigration mess is a personal one - have more kids of your own.</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, it is true that the only solution to the impending demographic collapse of the civilized world is for smart people to start making babies again.<BR/><BR/>Of course, the problem is that there is a 25 to 30 year gap between the start of a pro-natalist movement and that point [in the far-distant future] when such a movement begins to yield fruit.<BR/><BR/>I.e. it takes Caucasian [or Asian] children about 25 to 30 years to make it through undergraduate school, and graduate/professional school, and into the early years of apprenticeship in some career path, before they get to the point where they are truly productive members of society.<BR/><BR/>And if you look at it from the point of view of 2008, that means that any hypothetical pro-natalist policies which could have benefited us in the here and now would have to have had their inception no later than the Carter and [early] Reagan administrations - circa late 1970s to early 1980s [if not the Ford & Nixon eras prior to that].<BR/><BR/>But, of course, no one was paying any attention to demographics back then, in the early post-Griswold and post-Roe era, when Caucasian fertility first plunged below replacement level.<BR/><BR/>Likewise, any pro-natalist movement we ourselves undertake - and let us pray that such a movement can be founded and gain momentum and flourish - but any such movement we should undertake will not have any noticeable effect on the greater society at large until about 2035.<BR/><BR/>[And, by my calculations, the USA will either have collapsed and disintegrated into chaos - or will have devolved into a Stalinist totalitarian state - long before 2035. Ergo my repeated admonishments: Prepare accordingly.]Lucius Vorenusnoreply@blogger.com