Antinatalists: A Doomed, Dying Breed
Their “moral” code will rot like weeds on the ground, along with all the other niche fetishes.
When
asked if I’d like to pen a piece for his first print edition of the magazine Man’s World (200 “glorious” pages that are “In the real” and “In the raw,” as he puts it) I couldn’t say no.This article, “Antinatalists: A Doomed, Dying Breed” was originally published in April’s inaugural magazine, which you can (and should) purchase here.
I’m not one to celebrate demise. Doom and gloom simply doesn’t suit my starry-eyed state of mind — even when current events feel exceedingly negative. Some may laugh and call me naive, but I remain faithful despite our world being overrun by sin.
Putting aside existential fears is no simple task. It requires constant affirmation. Not all people are up for this challenge, and among those who allow for a depressing, doomer-pilled mindset to hang over their heads like a chronically-grim raincloud are the so-called “antinatalists”.
Antinatalism is a pessimistic philosophical ideology which preaches that having children is morally reprehensible, and that, to reduce suffering, people should reject their nature and abstain from continuing their bloodline. Antinatalists seethe in their dark corners online about their hatred for humanity and cheer their childfree friends along in becoming desexed. But to what end?
Where I was once ticked off by antinatalism, I’m now reasonably amused. Previously, I’d take the bait, peruse the intentionally schismatic discourse and allow their sins to drag me down spiritually. But the beautiful thing about embracing free speech — no matter how much it may feel like we’re giving a foothold to the devil — is that maladaptive beliefs can, and will, be crushed in the free market of ideas.
It may hurt to watch terminally online antinatalists urge women to get abortions and tie their tubes, encourage men to castrate themselves, and challenge the very concept of marriage, but let’s recall Napoleon Bonaparte’s words of wisdom: “When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.”
No, I won't waste precious hours in the day interfering with people whose ideologies stand at odds against my own. I’ve come to feel relief in knowing that antinatalism is much like an ouroboros. Instead of giving birth to something new, made in its own image, it can only consume itself. Let the antinatalists cook, I say. They’ll breed themselves out of their misery through natural selection… or the lack thereof.
How do we know this to be true? Well, a new study out of the University of Vienna confirmed that, unsurprisingly, conservatives have more descendants than liberals. When you take into consideration that political attitudes are believed to be as much as 40% heritable, it’s pretty clear that the social transmission of ideologies can only go so far.
It may be difficult to quantify exactly how many antinatalists there are among left-leaning individuals and, unfortunately, among blackpilled conservatives as well. When you search up “antinatalism” on Google’s all-powerful search algorithm, it places the antinatalist website Stop Having Kids (SHK) near the tippy top of search results about the movement.
Yet, when I reached out to the organization to quantify how many people are a part of SHK, its founder admitted that he couldn’t provide “an exact number.” Instead, he confirmed with me that the number of people actively involved in SHK are “probably less than 20 people… very small.”
Still, considering that Reddit’s r/antinatalism community houses more than 200,000 members, it would appear that sentiments about the benefits of childlessness aren’t an entirely isolated worldview. Pew Research revealed back in 2021 that childlessness is growing in popularity among American adults — a phenomenon that certainly isn’t helped by declining marriage rates, and declining fertility rates for those who do go on to tie the knot.
You could place a fair amount of blame on women, whose gender roles were all muddled up after the sexual revolution. After all, the Institute for Family Studies has projected that one in four young women today will end up being childless. But involuntary childlessness doesn’t discriminate based on sex. Researcher Robin Hadley recently found that almost a quarter of men over the age of 42 don’t have children. Of those childless adult males, more than half described feeling isolated from society and plagued by a huge sense of grief.
But which came first: the chicken or the egg? In terms of the direction for causality, does childlessness cause mental anguish, or do depressive feelings discourage people from feeling capable of childrearing in the first place? As it stands, incels (involuntary celibates) report alarmingly higher levels of autism, depression, and anxiety than the general global population.
At the same time as antinatalists spread their anti-human vitriol, we’re facing an entirely separate, but arguably more important issue: untapped potential to naturally counteract declining birth rates.
Some people may be apprehensive about forming families while their reproductive years are consumed by girlbossery and hustle culture. Others are simply prone to pushing it off out of selfish convenience, like preserving their pre-pregnancy bodies or their (self-sabotaging) promiscuous lifestyles. Both aren’t doing humanity a favor. They may not necessarily have bad intentions, but we all know what the road to hell is paved with.
Antinatalism as a philosophy isn’t the same as voluntary childlessness. It’s not a lifestyle choice: it’s outward activism to subvert our norms, demoralize the masses, and destroy the spirit. I’ll give them a bit of credit.
Antinatalists are right in arguing that human life is plagued by suffering. But while they succumb to their nihilism and die alone, those of us who can bear suffering, who understand that it is necessary to growth and self-fulfilment, will instead reproduce and rejoice.
I used to laugh off the notion that my generation (Gen Z) would be the “most conservative” generation. My generation is the most likely to identify as something other than their unchangeable male or female sex and with a sexuality other than straight.
But with a bit of refinement, there’s some truth to that notion. Future generations may indeed lean more conservative since those who lean (or proudly affirm themselves to be) liberal are actively working against the continuance of their ideology by extinguishing their genetic line.
This is most tragically apparent among victims of the LGBTQ+ trap. These people can have specialist fertility treatments or they can engage in child trafficking… I mean, surrogacy, but having your genitals removed and reconfigured and taking exogenous hormones will prevent most from even thinking about parenthood, let alone actually becoming one.
Countering targeted gender ideology among our youth is, of course, a battle worth fighting. It's our sacred duty to protect the innocent and defenseless.
Rage against the ways their teachers instruct them to hate their bodies, the color of their skin, or the country they were born in. Rage against the so-called “medical professionals” who break their bodies and poison their minds. We must die on those hills if we have to.
So here’s some practical advice for you to follow in your daily life if you want to help create a world fit for people to have children. Laugh at the tunnel vision of antinatalists online, but leave it at that. It’s hardly worth the headache, especially since stress can, in fact, negatively impact fertility. It’s all well and good to have fun online with like-minded anons, but it’s in the real world, out there, where we need to be working, away from screens.
Be wary of “trad” caricatures. If you’re terminally online, be brutally honest with yourself. How will you ever have time to integrate yourself into a warm community, marry a loving husband or wife, and have even just a couple of children with whom you can pass forth your principles?
I’ll close with a bit of wisdom from the apostle Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians. He hoped to help the people of Corinth overcome loose morals, disunity, and false teachings, and the words of encouragement he wrote still ring true to this day: “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.”
You, like me, may not celebrate demise, but should find some solace in the fact that their “moral” code will rot like weeds on the ground, along with all the other niche fetishes. Your values — if nurtured from fledgling plants to mature foliage —will triumph from generation to generation.
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