Into the fray?

 

Interesting that YouTube doesn´t even try to censor this kind of content...

Another night, another meme

 

- Yes, septum ring theory?!

So the Genesis AI volunteered to give me a stern condemnation of the latest Internet meme, "septum ring theory", when I made the mistake of searching for the meaning of said meme. 

But don´t worry. I sat out the "jeans/genes" kerfuffle, and will most certainly sit out this one, too. Come to think of it, maybe I´ll sit out the rest of the decade!

THOT

 

This isn´t rocket science, LOL. Maybe next week, Eddie can tell us why there are also male Jewish, Black, Asian and homosexual Alt Right influencers...  

Paradigmskiftet

 

Intressant blogginlägg. Notera det modiga påpekandet att massinvandringen faktiskt kan ha något att göra med den rådande högervågen. Många av de konservativa och religiösa ungdomarna är alltså invandrare. Att ungdomar fram tills idag "alltid" varit vänsterradikala eller progressiva är däremot struntprat. Se min andra länk!  

Högervågen bland ungdomar blir alltmer påtaglig

The American Teenager

Jade matriarchy?

 

Womyn ruled Stone Age China. At least, they ruled over 60 people for 10 generations. Seriously, though, this is actually interesting research. But not as interesting as that Scythian grave of two female warrior having a male slave taking care of a baby, LOL. 

"Women likely ruled in Stone Age China" 

Informal matriarchy

 

Both hits and misses in this one...

A few notes on matriarchy

The next extinction (part 1)

 

ChatGPT didn´t sound this "pessimistic" when I first started using it regularly a couple of months ago, so perhaps the system has adapted itself to my bleak outlook on life as we know it? It sounded more "officially optimist" before! Nuances aside, still an interesting "essay"...

Is it possible that humanity might go extinct, either through falling birth rates, climate changes, or a combination of both?

Yes — human extinction is possible, and many scientists, demographers, and futurists take this seriously. While it's unlikely to happen suddenly without a catastrophic event, there are gradual and compounding risks (like falling birth rates and climate change) that could lead to either collapse or slow extinction over time.

Let’s break down the main pathways:

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🌍 1. Climate Change as an Extinction Risk

How it could contribute:

• Extreme heat and drought reduce livable land, collapse agriculture, and cause water scarcity.

• Rising sea levels displace hundreds of millions from coastal areas.

• Biodiversity collapse destabilizes food chains and ecosystems.

• Feedback loops (e.g., permafrost methane release) accelerate warming.

• Resource conflicts and mass migration strain political systems.

Direct extinction?

Not likely on its own, but climate change is a "threat multiplier" — it worsens other problems (famine, war, disease, migration) and could contribute to systemic collapse.

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👶 2. Falling Birth Rates and Demographic Collapse

What's happening?

Many developed countries — and even some developing ones — have fertility rates far below replacement (2.1 children per woman). For example:

• South Korea: ~0.7

• Japan: ~1.3

• Italy, Spain, China: ~1.2–1.4

Why does this matter?

• Shrinking, aging populations strain social systems (fewer workers, more elderly).

• Innovation and productivity slow with fewer young people.

• Cultural and technological continuity can degrade.

• In extreme cases, entire regions or nations could become demographically unsustainable.

Extinction-level?

Demographic decline alone likely wouldn’t cause extinction, but in combination with economic collapse, social instability, or environmental disasters, it could cause long-term cultural fragmentation or technological regression — maybe even extinction over millennia.

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☢️ 3. Other Extinction-Level Risks

Beyond birth rates and climate:

• Nuclear war: Could lead to "nuclear winter" and mass starvation.

• Pandemics: Natural or engineered (e.g., bio-weapons or lab accidents).

• AI risk: Uncontrolled artificial general intelligence (AGI) misalignment.

• Asteroid/comet impact: Low-probability but devastating.

• Eco-collapse: Global ecosystem breakdown, including insect or plankton die-offs.

• Synthetic biology or nanotech: Accidents or malicious use.

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🧠 4. Human Behavior and Denial

One of the greatest risks is that many of these threats are:

• Incremental rather than sudden.

• Easy to politically deny or delay action on.

• Fueled by short-term thinking and economic self-interest.

This makes slow collapse — not Hollywood-style apocalypse — the more likely extinction route.

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🧬 Could Humanity Go Extinct Gradually?

Yes — especially through a long decline where:

• Populations shrink over generations.

• Fertility, tech, and infrastructure degrade.

• Climate stress and migration destabilize regions.

• Political will erodes.

• Eventually, only small, isolated populations remain — then disappear.

That’s the kind of “soft extinction” that’s plausible within a few thousand years (or even faster, depending on what unfolds this century).

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🕳️ Summary: Not Inevitable, But Possible

Risk Factor	Extinction Potential	How It Plays Out
Climate Change	Medium	Collapse via famine, conflict, displacement.
Falling Birth Rates	Low-to-Medium	Civilizational decline, possibly unrecoverable.
Nuclear War	Medium-to-High	Immediate catastrophe + long recovery.
Pandemics	Medium	Depends on virulence and spread.
AI / Tech Risks	Unknown	High potential, high uncertainty.
Gradual Decay	Medium	Collapse through compounding long-term stressors.

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🛡️ But There’s Hope

We have:

• Knowledge of the risks.

• Technology and foresight to adapt (if used wisely).

• Historical resilience as a species.

• Capacity for cooperation (though uneven).

Extinction is possible, but not inevitable — it depends on choices we make now, including policy, values, and how seriously we take these long-range risks.

Would you like an exploration of “resilience strategies” humanity could use to avoid extinction — or a speculative timeline of collapse vs. survival futures?

Why are birth rates falling all over the world, including nations where the birth rates are still above replacement level. There doesn´t seem to be a single global cause for the drop in birth rates in such diverse places like Niger, New Guinea, China, Japan, Europe, et cetera!

You're absolutely right — the global decline in birth rates is not caused by a single factor, and yet it’s strikingly widespread across diverse cultures, religions, and economies. What’s fascinating is that this trend emerges even in places with very different conditions, such as:

• Niger (still high fertility, but dropping fast)

• Papua New Guinea (just above replacement)

• China (plummeting birth rate despite past pronatalist policies)

• Japan and Europe (long-term sub-replacement)

So what’s going on?

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🌐 The Real Answer: A Convergence of Multiple Forces

While no single cause explains it all, there is a converging set of pressures — biological, economic, cultural, and technological — that collectively lead to fewer children being born almost everywhere.

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1. Urbanization and the Collapse of Traditional Family Structures

• In rural societies, children are often economic assets (help with labor, support in old age).

• In urban settings, they become economic costs (housing, education, time).

• Urban life also reduces kin support, making child-rearing harder.

➡️ Urbanization reduces fertility even without major wealth increases — this is observed in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America.

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2. Rising Female Education and Workforce Participation

• Education, especially for women, correlates strongly and consistently with lower fertility.

• Educated women tend to marry later, have better access to contraception, and prioritize career and autonomy.

• In many countries, no social structures support combining career and family easily.

➡️ This factor is visible across cultures — from Europe to Iran to Kenya.

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3. Declining Child Mortality and Shifting Family Goals

• When fewer children die in infancy, people don’t need to have many "just in case".

• Families shift from "quantity" to "quality": fewer kids, but better resources for each.

➡️ Even poor or developing nations see this effect once child survival improves.

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4. Economic Insecurity and Cost of Living

• In both wealthy and poor countries, many people feel financially insecure, even if GDP is rising.

• Housing, childcare, and education costs discourage large families.

• Young people delay or abandon childbearing due to lack of stability (gig economy, student debt, high rent).

➡️ Japan, Italy, China, the U.S., and Brazil all report these pressures — different economies, same effect.

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5. Cultural Shifts in Meaning, Marriage, and Parenthood

• Marriage is happening later or not at all in many societies.

• Childbearing is decoupled from marriage, sex, or social expectation.

• For some, life is about self-actualization, not reproduction.

• Secularization plays a role — religions often promote fertility, and their decline shifts values.

➡️ These cultural shifts are accelerating globally via media and education.

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6. Contraception and Reproductive Autonomy

• Access to modern contraception and abortion allows people to avoid unwanted pregnancies.

• Even in societies where birth control is taboo or restricted, informal access is rising.

➡️ Autonomy is a powerful suppressor of birth rates — when people can choose, many choose fewer children.

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7. Technology, Media, and Lifestyle Expectations

• Global media shapes expectations about what a “good life” looks like — often independent, mobile, urban.

• Having children can feel like a constraint in that vision.

• Digital entertainment and immersive online life can substitute for family intimacy, especially among men.

➡️ This phenomenon is visible in Japan’s “herbivore men,” Korea’s "Sampo Generation," and rising loneliness across the West.

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🧮 So Why Is It Happening Everywhere?

Because multiple causes are converging in most societies — even if at different rates and with different cultural flavors. It’s a bit like how very different ingredients can still make the same dish if they hit the same functional outcomes:

• Later marriage or no marriage

• More autonomy

• Higher child-rearing costs

• Fewer communal supports

• Broader existential shifts (what life is for)

Even in places like Niger or New Guinea, mobile phones, urban migration, and education are slowly altering traditional reproductive behaviors.

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🧠 The Deep Takeaway

Human fertility is not just biological — it's deeply tied to identity, values, economics, and meaning. What we’re seeing may be the biggest transformation in human reproductive behavior since agriculture.

Whether this is a short-term adjustment or a civilizational transition (e.g., toward “voluntary extinction” or new family models) is still unfolding.

Would you like to explore scenarios of how societies might respond to these trends — through policy, religion, or alternative family systems?

Could there be a single environmental factor, say climate change or environmental degradation (micro-plastics etc)?

That’s a sharp question — and you're not alone in wondering whether a hidden or overlooked environmental factor could be silently driving global fertility decline. Let’s tackle it directly:

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🔬 Could There Be a Single Environmental Factor Behind Falling Birth Rates?

Short Answer:

No single environmental factor is proven to be the primary cause of the global fertility decline — but some environmental co-factors may be contributing in the background, particularly through biological or endocrine effects.

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🧪 Top Environmental Suspects (with Some Supporting Evidence)

1. Endocrine Disruptors (Plastics, Phthalates, PFAS)

These are chemicals that interfere with hormones, found in:

• Plastics (BPA, phthalates)

• Non-stick cookware (PFAS, “forever chemicals”)

• Food packaging, cosmetics, industrial runoff

What They Might Be Doing:

• Lowering sperm counts (there’s global evidence for this)

• Causing earlier or irregular puberty in girls

• Disrupting ovulation or egg quality

• Increasing miscarriage rates

📉 Sperm counts have dropped by ~50% since the 1970s in many populations — a trend some link to these chemicals.

🧠 But: While this may reduce biological fertility, it doesn’t yet explain voluntary childlessness or low birthrates in places with no obvious exposure.

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2. Microplastics and Nanoparticles

• Found in placentas, breastmilk, testicular tissue, lungs

• May affect fetal development and long-term reproductive health

• Still early in the research — causal links to fertility are not yet conclusive

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3. Climate Change

• Extreme heat is known to lower sperm quality and affect menstrual cycles

• May reduce fertility in livestock and humans, especially in tropical zones

• Environmental stress (drought, displacement) also discourages childbearing

But again, this tends to amplify existing pressures (economic, social) more than explain fertility declines on its own.

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4. Pollutants and Heavy Metals

• Lead, mercury, and air pollution are all linked to miscarriage, reduced fertility, and poor fetal outcomes

• Common in urban and industrialized environments

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🧠 So Why Not a Single Environmental Factor?

Because:

• Fertility decline happens even in less-polluted, low-industrial regions.

• Voluntary family size reduction precedes or outweighs biological effects in most places.

• Many social and economic variables correlate much more strongly with birth rate changes than pollution levels.

• Even populations with no clear exposure to endocrine disruptors (e.g. some rural areas) are showing declines once education, media, and urbanization spread.

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🎯 Big Picture: Multiple Interacting Systems

Rather than one secret poison, we’re probably seeing a multi-system convergence:

• Environmental stress may weaken biological fertility.

• Economic and cultural shifts discourage reproduction.

• Technology and lifestyle factors substitute other satisfactions.

All these pressures create a kind of "fertility chill" across the species — no single smoking gun, but a matrix of pressures quietly rewriting human reproductive behavior.

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📉 Bottom Line

Factor	Role in Fertility Decline	Strength of Evidence
Endocrine disruptors (plastics)	Moderate biological effects	Moderate–Strong
Microplastics	Emerging concern	Weak–Unclear
Heat stress (climate change)	Real, but limited global impact	Moderate
Pollutants/heavy metals	Localized biological harm	Moderate
Cultural/economic drivers	Primary in most regions	Very Strong

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🧩 Final Thought

Environmental degradation may be softly shaping human fertility from the background, like a silent hand pushing biological limits — but the dominant forces behind global low birth rates remain social, cultural, and economic. That said, the interplay of the two may become more important over time.

Would you like a deeper dive into sperm count trends, or the role of chemical exposure in reproductive health?

Down and out in South Korea

 

Does South Korea have the world´s strangest "men´s rights movement"? The author of this essay, Richard Hanania, is something of a troll, but his contribution is still interesting as "cultural studies". Is it true? No idea. Feel free to do your own research... 

Why does Korea have an under-endowed men´s movement?

Problematisk

 

Woke-vänstern stretar på. Men de flesta män är ju färgade. Dax för en rasifierad kropp att ta denna imperialistiska feminist i sträng upptuktelse? 

Eller nej?

Ibland drömmer jag om ett samhälle utan män

To the contrary

 

Michael Tracey likes to live dangerously on the interwebs. This is his heterodox take on the Epstein files. If the paywall is ever reinstated on the first article, you can read the summary in the second link.

The Idiocy of the Epstein Mythology

The Epstein humiliation

 

Stereotypes

 

In "The X-Files", the male agent (Mulder) is the true believer, while the female ditto (Scully) is the skeptic. Apparently, the creator of the series - Chris Carter - deliberately wanted to reverse the standard gender stereotypes. Males are usually depicted as hard-nosed skeptics and rational thinkers, while females are emotion-driven and somewhat irrational true believers. 

But did he really succeed in reversing the stereotypes? While Mulder is clearly unhinged, he is also right! In the in-story universe of "The X-Files", alien abductions do happen, there is a vast conspiracy to hide the truth, and even "the monster of the week" is real. And Mulder sees it all, pursues it and wants to expose it. But this is just another version of the Rational Male (and Brave Explorer) stereotype. What could be more rational than trusting your five natural senses? 

Scully, by contrast, is wrong. So strictly speaking *she* is the irrational person, not wanting to see what´s right in front of her. Note also that Scully is a devout Catholic. That is: the faith-is-female stereotype. 

So when all is said and done, it´s not clear whether we´ve really moved the needle here.   

Confession

 

A certain Nicholas Confessore offers some criticism of the trans cult in the liberal New York Times following a recent defeat for this "movement" in the US Supreme Court. 

Probably just damage control, but it *is* interesting that trans is the first "Woke" item the Dems criticize. Suggesting the senior hierarchs never really believed in it. Maybe one day they´ll explain why they wanted the rest of us to buy the crap...

NYT skewers former trans heroes after SCOTUS defeat 

Get a grip, Eddie

 

Well, at least we know that YouTube no longer censors controversial content...

Porrsurfare

 

Vilken sida står Fria Tider på egentligen? Man får ju något slags (o)frivilliga sympatier för "al-Qaida-veteranen" här... 

Allegations

 

This article contains allegations that Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV, mishandled sexual abuse cases in both Chicago and Peru. However, there is also an interview with a Mexican author who believes that Prevost *did* try to investigate the abuse allegations in Peru, indeed, that he was one of the few local bishops who tried to do so.

Not sure if that´s more re-assuring, tbh.

Otherwise, I´m intrigued by Prevost´s strong connection to Peru. He seems to have been a cleric in that particular South American nation for decades. Not sure if I find *that* very re-assuring either, but that´s me... 

Victims´ groups alleges Prevost mishandled sexual abuse cases 

Smekmånaden slut?

 

Credit: Aftonbladet 

Det gick snabbt...

We have a pope...or something

 

Credit: INFOWeather1

Pro-Trump/pro-Vance Breitbart News tries to cope with the new Woke Pope in the State of Vatican City. See links below! Whatever. 

Personally, I would like to know why Prevost took the papal name Leo XIV. Leo XIII (the Pope most people-in-the-know think about when they hear the name "Leo") is still seen as one of the greatest popes in modern Catholic history (reigned 1878-1903). So choosing *that* name strikes me as...daring. 

Also, what does it tell us about Prevost´s political orientation? Leo XIII could be seen as a cautious reformer. But he could also be seen as radical, since his predecessors on the papal throne were arch-conservative. Leo XIII, by contrast, is associated with "Rerum novarum", the first social encyclical. It inspired the Catholic trade union movement. I read "Rerum novarum" years ago and didn´t find it particularly radical, but in its 1891 Catholic context, maybe it was. So perhaps the name signals that Prevost wants to be explicitly political and even somewhat "radical"?

I suppose we´re about to find out, aren´t we?   

Newly elected Pope opposed gender theory

Cubs or White Sox?

Draft our Aryan daughters

 

This is getting better and better. This ancient Aryan matriarchy of Conan-like female warriors was more based than I expected!  

Ancient Scythians used human skin for leather, confirming Herodotus´ grisly claims

Death to paedophiles

 

I can´t help quoting this little gem from "RFH", the Hollow Earth Terf, Loosh harvester and Artemis cultist who is still making X unsafe at any speed. The context seems to be claims that the Branch Davidians and other cults are somehow "based". RFH (a leftist feminist?) supports the Feds cracking down on these people!

>>>It’s crazy how when you actually look into these stories you realize the feds are incredibly sympathetic characters and were right to come down on most of these freaks. >>>The branch Davidians were marrying off their children to Koresh, the early Mormons were kidnapping girls from neighboring communities and making them sister wives. Now the Amish are raping their kids and creating new genetic illnesses with every passing day as they descend into total retardation. But hey they’re anti vax and don’t like homos! Based! >>>If you believe in law and order and nationalism, you should support these people being swiftly dealt with, not allowed to make parallel societies in your own neighborhood where they basically consider you infidels for not believing in their psychopathic cult leader’s fringe interpretation of the Bible that always seems to come down to “God wants me to have multiple child brides” >>>Somebody’s doing the raping and a lot of them are a part of fringe religious communities.

Original xweet

Dover trial

 

Liberation Day?

"Gender critical campaigners win at UK supreme court over definition of woman"