Demographic Winter

This term may be unfamiliar to some of you but this is the real crisis of our time. It is the explanation for the collapsing birth rates in the mainly Western countries and the resulting effects on these societies as the demographic collapse accelerates.

The birth rates in the West have been shrinking in some cases to below replacement levels and our way of life, the good and the bad, will disappear as well.

Our economies are based on consumption and growth. Since we have adopted a eugenics approach to children and rejected the organic natural law, the only way for growth to continue inorganically is to embrace an increasingly materialistic lifestyle. However, the recent recession has brought to light the shortcomings of our economic system, and I believe it is only a beginning to the harsh realities currently unaddressed by our educational, political, and sociatal systems.

Indeed, the embers continue to smolder and gather strength under contemporary Rome. Some day the embers will catch fire and make the current economic situation seem like an afterthought. The old order is dead, but the marketing department didn't get the memo.