Most of the end of civilization stuff seems overly dramatic.\u00a0 The dysfunction we see around us is distressing but somehow the lights stay on and the stores still have overpriced hamburger meat and eggs on their shelves.\u00a0 And although it seems like the kids have given up on living the lifestyle their parents and grandparents had, well, they still seem to feed themselves and have the latest Apple electronics when they complain about their poverty.<\/p>\n
So, it\u2019s interesting to think about just how much life in these United States will differ from even today in let\u2019s say a decade.\u00a0 In 2034 what will be radically different?<\/p>\n
Well, for one thing the oldest Millennials will be well advanced into middle age.\u00a0 For instance, the crop from 1980 will be fifty-four years old and retirement will be on a lot of their minds.\u00a0 The ones who didn\u2019t get married or have children are maybe looking around at the world they \u201csaved\u201d by refusing to procreate and may be discovering that the world has completely passed them by.\u00a0 What might that situation do to their world view?\u00a0 Well, maybe very little.\u00a0 After all, when you\u2019ve opted out of family life it doesn\u2019t much matter whether you\u2019re sixteen or sixty-six.\u00a0 You can still spend most of your time sitting in front of a computer screen playing some game or other.\u00a0 And in fact, playing video games is a viable option even when you\u2019re eighty-six.\u00a0 So, a large proportion of Millennials will probably check out on the couch, joy stick in hand and eventually be scraped off the furniture and carted off to the Soylent Green plant without anyone even knowing they were gone.\u00a0 And the Millennial cat ladies will suffer a similar fate.\u00a0 Except in their case, they\u2019ll provide a temporary source of cat food for their feline roommates.<\/p>\n
But there will be a subset of the Millennials that buck the trend and have families.\u00a0 And they\u2019re the ones that will determine what the future looks like.\u00a0 If like some of the parents of Zoomers that we read about, they sacrifice their kids on the altar of woke parenting then basically all they will accomplish is a one generation reprieve from the extinction of their genetic lines.\u00a0 Their children will follow the majority of their parents\u2019 cohort down that sterile avenue to childless oblivion.<\/p>\n
But the fraction of Millennials that succeed in bringing up their children with normal old-fashioned values and priorities will inherit the Earth.\u00a0 Think of it.\u00a0 The Millennials were an echo of the Baby Boom.\u00a0 Not as numerous but still the largest cohort currently on the scene.\u00a0 If they only produce a small generation of children and most of them fail to reproduce, then the ones that do will be an island of youth in a sea of old dead-enders.\u00a0 They will be the only game in town.\u00a0 They will be the future.\u00a0 And maybe that will put an end to all of this anti-human nonsense that the Gaia worshippers have invented.\u00a0 Maybe when Greta Thunberg hears her biological clock stop ticking, she will realize that she\u2019s been sold a bill of goods by the Left and wasted her life fighting a moronic war against human flourishing.\u00a0 Hopefully when she reaches fifty, she can watch a video clip of herself hectoring some government panel, \u201cHow dare you destroy my childhood by providing modern inventions to allow me to live beyond neolithic conditions which are all I deserve!\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ll already be gone but maybe historians can get a statement from her to act as a cautionary tale for future young idiots.<\/p>\n
So even if the luddites get rid of gasoline cars and force us to eat crickets, I think the demographic trends will bring about a changing of the guard that will favor rationality and begin to eliminate those who bought into the anti-human cult that currently has most of the young under its sway.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not to say that this irrational mindset won\u2019t have damaged this country and the rest of western civilization terribly.\u00a0 It will have.\u00a0 There\u2019s no way now to prevent the damage.\u00a0 But in some senses, it will be a self-correcting problem.\u00a0 Basically, the sane will inherit the Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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