{"id":3798,"date":"2010-02-13T09:05:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2010-02-13T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T17:07:06","slug":"natalist-fundamentalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/natalist-fundamentalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalist Fundamentalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/FamilyHistoryJD\/People\/FatherParents\/page.html#ed\">my paternal granny<\/a> was one of at least 11 children, born in England 1860-1880.\u00a0 My mother was one of 13, born 1896-1917.\u00a0 How they did breed!<\/p>\n<p>Learning that fact\u00a0a couple of hours after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/hbdbooks.com\/2010\/02\/yo-yo-evolution\/\">Richard Hoste&#8217;s VDARE piece<\/a> on Gerhard Meisenberg&#8217;s book, I sank into some speculations of a natalist fundamentalist kind.\u00a0 Perhaps it is only when ordinary people (i.e. as opposed to just the underclass) breed like oysters, that you have a vigorous civilization.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t come much more vigorous than\u00a0Victorian England.<\/p>\n<p>Does anything else really matter much, I wonder?\u00a0 I become daily more certain that Western Civ. is on the way out, probably faster than we\u00a0can easily believe.\u00a0 The fertility numbers are what Wall Streeters call &#8220;leading indicators.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is there any vigor without demographic vigor?\u00a0 Can anyone think of a civilization with TFR &lt; 3 that lasted more than a couple of decades and accomplished anything of note?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose we can always hope for the Singularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just learned that my paternal granny was one of at least 11 children, born in England 1860-1880.\u00a0 My mother was one of 13, born 1896-1917.\u00a0 How they did breed! Learning that fact\u00a0a couple of hours after reading Richard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/natalist-fundamentalism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}