HODL239d agoThe reason I keep harping on having children is because it’s similar to the epiphany of Bitcoin.
There are people out there who benefit from you being weak, atomized, and alone.
They’ve sold you a vision of freedom that actually serves them, not you.
The truth? Your life will be more vast, more meaningful, more fulfilling, and more joyful with a family.
You’ve been taught to believe the opposite, not because it’s true, but because it makes you easier to control, easier to extract from, and easier to discard.
This isn’t me judging you.
I believed the same lies.
I was seduced by the cheap, shallow narrative of personal meaning and individual passion, and I was miserable.
I didn’t find peace or purpose until I submitted to being responsible for others.
That’s where the meaning is. That’s where the beauty is. That’s where real life begins.
Trying to find your purpose in art, travel, or endless self-optimization is Malthusian psych warfare. Population control by spiritual demoralization.
It was never designed to make you whole.
It was designed to make you disappear.
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HODL239d agoYou’re gonna experience 1000x what I described. That’s how good parenthood is.
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HODL239d agoYou’ll notice I didn’t use the word happiness in my post above.
So you’re arguing with something I didn’t say number 1.
Number 2, the oft quoted 50% statistic is skewed high by serial divorcees (people on their 5th marriage). First marriages have about a 65% chance of working out. Divorce rates are also declining. The majority of modern, stable marriages last.
Number 3, Longitudinal studies from Harvard, Stanford, and Pew show married people report greater life satisfaction, physical health, and emotional well-being compared to their single peers.
Number 4, Marriage and family aren’t broken, our culture is.
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HODL239d agoI’m saying that these things aren’t bad in themselves, but when they become the substitute for family, faith, sacrifice, legacy, etc… they become part of a demoralization campaign. One that convinces the masses to find meaning in things that never generate children, commitment, or institutions.
That’s why I said Malthusian psych warfare because it aligns perfectly with the goals of those who want fewer people, weaker families, and easier-to-control populations.
It’s sterilizing on a spiritual and often literal level.
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HODL239d agoNot everyone but in general we have a culture that is very negative towards the family and parenthood. This is the dogma that surrounds these choices for most people.
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HODL239d agoSure you can definitely have healthy pregnancies post 40 but the optimal window is correctly described by mainstream medicine.
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HODL238d agoI’m pro art obviously. I’m a creative myself, this isn’t to say that art is not meaningful.
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HODL238d agoI’m not sure there is a clear correlation, Einstein, Aristotle, Descartes, Shakespeare, Napoleon, Galileo, Jung, Socrates, Wagner, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Jobs, Picasso, Tolkien, Darwin, Planck, Bach, Marcus Aurelius all had children.
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HODL238d agoYeah but it isn’t correlative is my point. Also most geniuses who didn’t have children weren’t rejecting family so much as shaped by intense neurodivergence (autism etc…) or single minded focus. Their paths weren’t the result of some alternative lifestyle design, they were often anomalies compelled by outsized obsession and focus. Or they were just gay at a time when that wasn’t socially acceptable like Michelangelo for instance.
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HODL238d agolol I’m not going to respond to your hysterical bad faith interpretation of what I said buddy boy
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HODL238d agoI’m gonna mute you now permanently unless you’d like to backtrack the above statement
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Jonathan Melton 234d agoSpend 10 minutes on this: https://youtu.be/Sh4FS8OOn3A
Watch Terence Malick’s Tree of Life.
Made me want to be a better husband and father. Hardly anything really matters in the end. Your family does.
Shout out @95794448…4b3e4ce9
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