Social welfare is a Ponzi scheme. In a Ponzi scheme, those who pay in at the beginning get their return from those who are paying in 20 years later. It works brilliantly if you are a state and can (a) tax the living hell out of the productive, (b) have a pronatalist policies (AKA family friendly) such as low mortgages for couples with kids, paternal custody by default, and (preferably) (c) limited access to sexual congress outside of the marital bed.
I have, of course, just described the patriarchy. Chulthu (who is going to appear a lot from now, for the feel of our society is much more akin to the Borg or the nameless horrors than Hobbes’ Leviathan) says this us ungoodthink. But that will backfire.
Governments becoming more and more desperate to get younger people to breed so they can have future slaves to fund their social security eerrrr….”continue the culture and population.”
Sorry socialists.
You let every other culture into our countries.
You CHEERED THEM ON and PREFERRED THEM TO OUR OWN
You pay parasites and punish producers
And good lord, don’t even get me started about what your feminist division has done to men’s desire to pro-create.No, you created this problem and our future would be children will not be the solution to it. This is where the game ends and any (unfortunate enough children) born to socialist parents are the ones who are going to pay for your idiocy.
I do not understand the left. I really do not. They scream at us that all is not biological but their gender choices and other acceptable sins, then they subvert this. Does not matter, because Chulthu is happy. The gay do not breed easily: and for the straight there is what Ann Coulter called the only sacrament of feminism, abortion.
(Oh, and on the issue of biological tendency and behaviour, for most things, the answer is both.)
Underlying the emotion on both sides is the looming and frustratingly unsettled question: Is homosexuality inherent or a choice? Those who consider homosexuality a moral sin naturally prefer to cast it as a choice. The politically correct answer, though, is that gays and lesbians are born that way, case closed, so don’t even think about judging or trying to change them. Yet science has failed to give a definitive answer either way. Nevertheless, it is culturally settled that heterosexuals who consider themselves “enlightened” – nowadays including a great swath of conservatives – embrace the right of gays and lesbians to complete social parity with heterosexuals. Homosexuality is experiencing its first Golden Age – at least for those who live in urban western centres.
However, the gold in the Golden Age may turn quickly to tarnishable gilt if it turns out that homosexuality can be inherent or a choice, as some gays, like Daniel Villarreal seem to believe it is. Progressives can roll their eyes at evangelical Christians who say homosexuality is “catchy,” but here is mainstream writer Sally Kohn pretty well announcing that she believes it is, and that’s a good thing.
Now, the average young Christian has to decide if they are going to (a) live in godly celibacy or (b) seek to live in holy matrimony. In the Catholic and Orthodox, holy celibacy and the monastic life is held as higher and better than secular life: the reformed have but secular life but honour those who choose not to marry.
Those who marry have kids. Supported by their father and mother. With the help of grandparents and the broader church when the kids are younger and need more work and resources.
And this is… works. It works if you are Amish. It works if you are Catholic. It works in places that are very poor. It predates Christ: indeed Christ went to a marriage feast (and famously made wine our of water).
But it is incompatible with double doctorates or the revolution. It is not politically correct.
However, the PC will die for the same reason that the Soviets did: they ran out of other people’s money, and no one believed their lies any further.
Let Chulthu swim left. We will not follow that nameless horror.
Most severe mental disorders can be induced in a person if you put them under the proper amount of specific stressors. The ADHD areas bend over backwards to not admit that 50% of the cases are a problem of the parents, not the children.
Though the argument that Homosexuality is congenital or genetic is something I’ve always found funny. We know from Down’s Syndrome study that the Leftists would simply abort the child. As much as they talk a good game, when the “rubber meets the road”, they’ll want their “prefect” children. But it’s not like the Twin studies haven’t blown a hole in the thinking, nor the consistent issues with immune & endocrine systems among the self-described set. But self-deception is the only “truth” they have to hold onto, and hold onto it they will.
There is always a lot of people in our societies that need to be prayed for, as we all give into Sin, but some give into Sin with permanent consequences.
On inducing psychiatric disorders, the answer is actually no, you can’t. After major disasters (and I work 400km from a city that was flattened in an earthquake 5 years ago: PTSD I know all too well) about 80 -90% will just get on with it and will not complain.
Now, if you are talking about meds, same again: you have to get fairly toxic. Which is why methamphetamine and LSD has been used therapeutically, and MDMA (estacy) may again be used.
I won’t go into the genetics too much further apart from this: the variation explained by Serotonin transporter gene is about one to three percent of the reasons why people get depressed. We thought we could find a few genes and it would all sort itself out. We are now doing GWACS using 20 -40K participants for things like psychosis.
In a similar way, there are multiple genes around attraction. In most societies, most people will follow a functional pattern. But when the society allows the worship of Cybele, the vulnerable will metaphorically castrate themselves.
I should have been more thorough in the first comment. (I forget you actually know what you’re talking about, so I can’t gloss over details)
Individual events rarely cause long-lasting damage in most of the human population.
But long-term, consistent application of stressors, either internal or external, can create a significant number of physiological or psychological disorders.
I mentioned ADHD, which seems to run around 50/50 (by most of the US studies I’ve seen) for home-life stress factors vs brain structural issues (only some of which are strictly genetic). Eating disorders in post-pubertal girls will, to a very high rate, have pre-existing throat, esophageal or stomach issues. (i.e. they’re actually malnourished going into puberty, which results in the potential body image issues)
Autism is a, generally, congenial neurological & physiological inflammation problem. Mostly clustered around 1-carbon metabolism. This is why vaccines highlighted the issues (the body isn’t capable of recovering from the sickness after the mother’s antibodies wear off). [Side point: Autistic children were, pre-1950, known as “weak constitutional”. That’s why there were a lot less. They all died before age 5 from communicable diseases.]
Fibromyalgia is a long-duration collapse of the body’s stress response systems, which eventually takes out enough of the immune system to allow a general collapse in physical state. The body isn’t capable of producing enough neurotransmitters after the collapse for various reasons.
PTSD is pretty much blowing out a specific part of the body’s stress response systems. That’s part of what makes it so hard to treat functionally. A lot of the rest of the body works just fine.
Now, this all was in the context of homosexuality. The Flesh wars with the Spirit. Temptations are different and have different power depending the state in which you find your body. Few in the modern world would think to kill for food. But if you starve someone for a few weeks, they’ll be more than tempted to kill for food. This is part of the reason that the temptation of Christ by the Devil, especially over food, is so impressive. No human could resist what the Devil tempted Jesus with.
That’s what I was getting at. Internal or external factors can bring a person to falling to specific temptations. And your last line sums it up really well. I’ll have to remember to use it in the future. “But when the society allows the worship of Cybele, the vulnerable will metaphorically castrate themselves.”