Bret’s argument rests on a bad assumption. He treats sex and money as if they were the core meaning or structure of human life, and that removing their “cost” somehow leaves us empty.
But that’s like saying our lives lost direction when we stopped washing dishes by hand, or when we stopped making our own clothes, or when we no longer had to farm just to survive. Those things were never our purpose they were chores that consumed our time. The moment technology freed us from them, we didn’t collapse; we simply had more time to do things we actually cared about.
Same here. Money and sex were never the meaning of life they were pressures that forced us to spend huge parts of our day just staying afloat. For the first time, we’re slowly removing those pressures. That doesn’t make us directionless; it gives us space to explore who we really are and what we actually want to do.
When people finally have time and resources, they think about inequality, they question the status quo, they demand things they didn’t have the bandwidth to demand before. It’s no coincidence students have always been behind major social movements they were the ones with both intelligence and spare time.
We aren’t becoming emptier. We’re just no longer stuck in survival mode. We’re finally able to grow in ways that aren’t purely material emotionally, socially, intellectually. We’re not losing ourselves. We’re actually starting to discover ourselves.
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Yes, and those at the top of the pyramid have studied history and those social movements (assuming they didn't actively shape them...). Since nobody likes losing power, they will find ways to keep the people distracted and powerless. We can see the vast explosion of sports and games in the 20th century as one way they slowed down or stopped many of the advances made by organised labour and improved standards of living. Occupy Wall Street earlier this century was a sign the population was getting ready to attack the institutions and systems that ruled over us and it isn't much of a surprise that multinational companies really started to push DEI and the whole trans agenda shortly afterwards... Bread and Circuses is a powerful strategy for a while but never forget that those in power have the weapons to distract us in other ways...
Money and faeming are never ones purpose until hunger is around the corner. Stop with your non sense
He's missing the point most women feel uncomfortable in their circumstances monetarily.
Birth rates are linked to inflation, people want to have children except they feel it would not be an option. Then adopt convenient narratives to justify the lifestyle they have.
This is similar to other justification trends such as vegetarianism when beef prices are rising. Or stay home vacations as travel becomes too expensive. Always a push and a pull thing. (The narratives can easily be manipulated by those with power as long as they reinforce the underlying trend.)
Even though there are many factors at play if you break it all down i would say inflation would account for more then 80% of mix.
On average we cannot simply ignore millions of years of evolutionary momentum by choice. If we see declining birth rates it shows there is an issue affecting the language evolution speaks. Safety...We do not want to reproduce in unfavorable conditions. All life does this, nesting or migration... We are complicated which just means we add extra steps.
At this point his argument could come into play. Except it is ridiculous to think this is based on sexual freedom (another justification narrative). More likely, inflation induced sexual capitulation.
Multiple factors coming together to justify not being able to afford children or build a safe environment to have children.
Could be a fun idea to play with... The global feminine mind is trying to correct the devastating pressures of inflationary money, the only way it knows how to because the global masculine has failed to do so. We can see on all fronts the global masculine has been under attack for years.
Also his message comes off as religious pandering and the flash account is discreetly pro Islam but he does great work.
Just dislike all forms of coercive governance religious or not.
