Society needs to (and one way or another, is going to) find a way to configure itself so that children are born again.
But it also needs to be recognized that the stable patriarchal systems of yesteryear were a product of technology. When survival is dependent on male labor (for plow-based agriculture or hunting), then patriarchy is stabl…
Society needs to (and one way or another, is going to) find a way to configure itself so that children are born again.
But it also needs to be recognized that the stable patriarchal systems of yesteryear were a product of technology. When survival is dependent on male labor (for plow-based agriculture or hunting), then patriarchy is stable and maintained effortlessly because women are, in economic terms, a luxury that fathers will go so far as to pay a dowry to get off their hands.
Moreover, when maintaining the household and caring for children involves a large number of tasks -- some of them skilled and complex -- that take up all the hours in the day, then women will be more content to stay at home (I recall Aaron making this point before).
There has been a technology shock to this arrangement, and I just don't think you'll have a stable arrangement that looks quite like the old one, because the old one didn't require rigorous ideological enforcement to maintain. Economic reality provided the enforcement. Any new system, if it's going to be stable, will have to take into account the fact that maintaining a home is technologically much easier, and there are large economic gains to be had from women engaging in even part-time outside work.
Part of the problem is that technology is changing too rapidly to even see what a stable system looks like. 20 years ago, it looked like we had a stable-enough 2.0 TFR system. Now it's clear that we don't, and the whole world's family life has changed a lot in 5 years.
True - and we are only years away from commercially available artificial womb technology that eliminate the need for marriage and mothers.
There is only ideological adherence which can revere tradition. Women's liberation broke tradition's place in society en masse. Refusal to break women's liberation means society will have to accept the downstream effects which will include men untethering from women completely. In a competitive environment, men excel - and the only marketplace advantage that women hold is 1) biological child bearing and 2) policy-forced privilege. The policy forced privilege part will get destroyed as soon as men realize they have little to no need of women. Artificial wombs will free men from the biological hold that women have over child bearing.
The endless handwringing of the last 80 years has not stopped leftist "progress" one bit. Christianity has no will to stop the last few steps that are yet to be reached. Thus, it is impotent. Thus, it is irrelevant.
Society needs to (and one way or another, is going to) find a way to configure itself so that children are born again.
But it also needs to be recognized that the stable patriarchal systems of yesteryear were a product of technology. When survival is dependent on male labor (for plow-based agriculture or hunting), then patriarchy is stable and maintained effortlessly because women are, in economic terms, a luxury that fathers will go so far as to pay a dowry to get off their hands.
Moreover, when maintaining the household and caring for children involves a large number of tasks -- some of them skilled and complex -- that take up all the hours in the day, then women will be more content to stay at home (I recall Aaron making this point before).
There has been a technology shock to this arrangement, and I just don't think you'll have a stable arrangement that looks quite like the old one, because the old one didn't require rigorous ideological enforcement to maintain. Economic reality provided the enforcement. Any new system, if it's going to be stable, will have to take into account the fact that maintaining a home is technologically much easier, and there are large economic gains to be had from women engaging in even part-time outside work.
Part of the problem is that technology is changing too rapidly to even see what a stable system looks like. 20 years ago, it looked like we had a stable-enough 2.0 TFR system. Now it's clear that we don't, and the whole world's family life has changed a lot in 5 years.
True - and we are only years away from commercially available artificial womb technology that eliminate the need for marriage and mothers.
There is only ideological adherence which can revere tradition. Women's liberation broke tradition's place in society en masse. Refusal to break women's liberation means society will have to accept the downstream effects which will include men untethering from women completely. In a competitive environment, men excel - and the only marketplace advantage that women hold is 1) biological child bearing and 2) policy-forced privilege. The policy forced privilege part will get destroyed as soon as men realize they have little to no need of women. Artificial wombs will free men from the biological hold that women have over child bearing.
The endless handwringing of the last 80 years has not stopped leftist "progress" one bit. Christianity has no will to stop the last few steps that are yet to be reached. Thus, it is impotent. Thus, it is irrelevant.
Society will be remade in 20-40 years.