Dearest readers, lately I have been chain watching Peter Zeihan's content and, while some things he talks about go over my head (blame my mild ADHD and a busy life haha), this geopolitical genius of the "Guns, Germs and Steel" generation has tons of evidence for a completely different set of predictions about the next 5-30 years or so for the entire world. He talks about the inevitable breakdown of globalism, a return to the early 1900's style of power blocks, and most importantly to my topic today he talks about the population size collapse already under way in many parts of the world. Dearest readers, if he is right, this is bad. Sure, there are a few countries around the world that have large populations due to the ideal climate for it and a few more key factors, but for the most part the world as we know it, global economics, food production and more- all of these depend on population growth, on young people replacing old people and so on. So, if we live in countries that are experiencing a population bust- and chances are that if you are reading this you live in one such country at least part-time - we are in trouble. Why, though? If so many people want to call these countries we live in their new forever home, then how come we are not creating enough new life locally? I thought about it, I talked to people about it (people who know this stuff from school and in their career fields), and I have come up with a term, a noun that may catch on. Today, let us talk about Inster.
What is Inster? Inster would be the abbreviation for involuntarily sterilized. The first thing that comes to mind are involuntary, state-sanctioned forced sterilizations of people that many current and past countries around the world have done at one time or another. This is something that most of us good, moral people would agree is a bad, bad thing in 99-100 percent of cases. An Inster, however, would not be an individual who is a victim of any such government program. Instead, I would define a person like that as someone who is sexually active, but has to use protection all the time as they are put in a situation where they cannot have children, therefore being sterilized by circumstances.
What does being sterilized by circumstances mean? It can mean many different things, depending on what the circumstances are. For the sake of my definition, I would say that an Inster is sterilized by circumstances outside of their control. Some things you could list here are debilitating costs of living in a given area, dating culture, internal system of values and life objectives... The point is, a country can be more or less set up for population growth. While this may vary from one region to another, if on average the country is set up to sterilize most of its child bearing population in a circumstantial way, or you could almost say a systemic way, before you know it you will run out of new jobs, new buildings, innovation, investment funds and eventually a country's sovereignty comes into jeopardy. At the very least, you could end up with a breakup of territorial integrity down to the city state level.
The final and most important component of my definition of Inster is that an Inster wants to have children and is likely suffering, to a greater or lesser degree, because they are involuntarily sterilized and therefore prevented from becoming biological parents. That is also the most tragic part of it all.
How are governments of mostly modern countries dealing with this Inster phenomenon? How are the cultures of these countries dealing with it? How are we dealing with it? This, ladies and gentlemen, is the greatest shit show of them all. Everyone is dealing with this in the shittiest way possible by using the oldest trick in the book- scapegoating! The scapegoats of this entire situation are LGBTQ groups, MGTOW, Red Pill people, OnlyFans Models- basically everyone who does not satisfy the definition of Inster. We are talking about people who are in groups that either choose not to have children or they do not prioritize it. That should be fine. People should have the freedom to check out from their group's reproductive cycle. Yet, dearest readers, the powers that be love to scapegoat groups like these as the reasons why the population is collapsing. The right way to go would be to focus on improving the circumstances of people who crave having babies, people who cannot to be parents, people who feel they want to do it with their whole body and soul. Oh, but that takes time, money and may even cost you some votes at election time. So, it just becomes easier to scapegoat and kick the can down the road until things get so bad we end up thrust into some weird dystopian scenario of a futuristic fertility cult or something.
As my closing point, dearest readers, I will tell you one thing. Think about what people need in order to have kids. It all boils down to one thing- sufficient excess means/wealth after basic needs are met. Any policy, any country-wide long-term project that makes this happen will be good for everyone- those who want children as well as those who do not. Therefore, no matter where each of us stands on this issue, I really do believe we should work on it as a society, if for no other reason than due to mutual self-interest.
Have a great weekend everyone! :)
What is Inster? Inster would be the abbreviation for involuntarily sterilized. The first thing that comes to mind are involuntary, state-sanctioned forced sterilizations of people that many current and past countries around the world have done at one time or another. This is something that most of us good, moral people would agree is a bad, bad thing in 99-100 percent of cases. An Inster, however, would not be an individual who is a victim of any such government program. Instead, I would define a person like that as someone who is sexually active, but has to use protection all the time as they are put in a situation where they cannot have children, therefore being sterilized by circumstances.
What does being sterilized by circumstances mean? It can mean many different things, depending on what the circumstances are. For the sake of my definition, I would say that an Inster is sterilized by circumstances outside of their control. Some things you could list here are debilitating costs of living in a given area, dating culture, internal system of values and life objectives... The point is, a country can be more or less set up for population growth. While this may vary from one region to another, if on average the country is set up to sterilize most of its child bearing population in a circumstantial way, or you could almost say a systemic way, before you know it you will run out of new jobs, new buildings, innovation, investment funds and eventually a country's sovereignty comes into jeopardy. At the very least, you could end up with a breakup of territorial integrity down to the city state level.
The final and most important component of my definition of Inster is that an Inster wants to have children and is likely suffering, to a greater or lesser degree, because they are involuntarily sterilized and therefore prevented from becoming biological parents. That is also the most tragic part of it all.
How are governments of mostly modern countries dealing with this Inster phenomenon? How are the cultures of these countries dealing with it? How are we dealing with it? This, ladies and gentlemen, is the greatest shit show of them all. Everyone is dealing with this in the shittiest way possible by using the oldest trick in the book- scapegoating! The scapegoats of this entire situation are LGBTQ groups, MGTOW, Red Pill people, OnlyFans Models- basically everyone who does not satisfy the definition of Inster. We are talking about people who are in groups that either choose not to have children or they do not prioritize it. That should be fine. People should have the freedom to check out from their group's reproductive cycle. Yet, dearest readers, the powers that be love to scapegoat groups like these as the reasons why the population is collapsing. The right way to go would be to focus on improving the circumstances of people who crave having babies, people who cannot to be parents, people who feel they want to do it with their whole body and soul. Oh, but that takes time, money and may even cost you some votes at election time. So, it just becomes easier to scapegoat and kick the can down the road until things get so bad we end up thrust into some weird dystopian scenario of a futuristic fertility cult or something.
As my closing point, dearest readers, I will tell you one thing. Think about what people need in order to have kids. It all boils down to one thing- sufficient excess means/wealth after basic needs are met. Any policy, any country-wide long-term project that makes this happen will be good for everyone- those who want children as well as those who do not. Therefore, no matter where each of us stands on this issue, I really do believe we should work on it as a society, if for no other reason than due to mutual self-interest.
Have a great weekend everyone! :)