The Death of Everyone

 

This film on the growing problem of depopulation has been prevented from being shown at Cambridge University, so far, by protests. This, the protesters say, is because it is prejudicial to feminism. They necessarily have not seen the film, as the entire film has not yet been generally available. This was to be the local premiere.

What you see on YouTube is only part 1. Judge for yourself. 

Here we see the zombie culture, the NPC culture. They do not want to think; they do not want to learn; they do not want to know. This is what denial looks like, and what it does.

What really has them agitated? I suspect that the problem of depopulation is a prima face argument, if not a direct one, against abortion. Which then also means against unrestricted sex. An unrestricted sex and perhaps abortion these students are themselves already guilty of. And so, denial.

Welcome to the roots of the current zombie apocalypse.

The creator of the film keeps saying the cause for the decline in birth rate is unclear. There seems to be no unifying underlying factor; it is as if it is all happening at once spontaneously. It is not the availability of the pill; the birth rate declined in Japan at the same rate as Europe, although in Japan the pill was not legal. It is not the growing cost of raising children. The birth rate declined in Germany at the same rate as elsewhere, although tertiary education is free in Germany. It is not families leaving the farm for the cities—that happened in Europe a hundred years ago or more, and, as the film points out, the significant change is not from large to smaller families, but from having children to not having children at all. 

The film correlates the declines to specific financial shocks; but this does not work. The shocks they cite are different in different countries; there have always been financial shocks, at any point in history; and the cited shocks are transitory. They can only be seen as triggers, if that.

The real reason for the decline in childbearing is a loss of meaning. Darwin more or less pointed this out back in the 19th century, in the Descent of Man. He noticed that, wherever Europeans came in contact with some previously isolated, technologically primitive society, the men stopped working and the women stopped having babies.

Having children is an expression of confidence in the world, and hope in the future. To these primitive people, the world as they knew it had fallen apart. Nothing made sense any longer. They succumbed to depression: spiritual despair.

The baby boom from 1945-65 supports the point by showing the opposite. After decades of war and economic depression, with the worst rascals apparently wiped out, there was a burst of optimism for the future. So, having babies seemed like a good idea. The optimism lasted until about the assassination of Kennedy and the escalation of the war in Vietnam; that killed both the optimism and the baby boom. 

There has been an accelerating loss of meaning in the past few decades: a turning away from religion; a rejection of existing culture, history, morality, and norms. Scientism and wokeism have been wholly inadequate substitutes. Because they almost immediately stop making sense. 

The film keeps citing Germany, Japan, and Italy as examples of the birth gap. Perhaps this means they have been leading this trend. They are the nations that most succumbed to the post-religious scientistic doctrines of fascism and Nazism. Granted that there was a delay of a generation or two before the loss of the war discredited these world views, but it may have taken that time for a sense of guilt to have overcome the sense of release from the sufferings of the war.

The collapse in birth rate seems most severe now in Eastern Europe. These are the nations that most succumbed to the post-religious scientistic doctrine of Marxism. If the subject populations have little cause to feel personal or even cultural shared guilt for this, their situation is like that of someone who has had an abusive childhood. It is hard to cast off the lies one’s parents have raised you with without a profound disorientation and period of despair.

Meantime, the only area that seems to have resisted the population collapse, so far, is subSaharan Africa. A place where Christianity is spreading rapidly.

Kind of makes you think.