During a recent interview on Glazov Gang, Hannah Faulkner alluded to current social upheaval being a means of population control, but time limitations precluded a detailed discussion. This essay takes a deeper view of the connection between “woke” immorality and environmentalism.
To begin, marriage is going out of style. Recent statistics show that 25% of forty-year-olds have never been married, an all-time high. So, why is marriage no longer fashionable? There are multiple causes, but one ideological reason is that is the radical environmentalist belief that the earth is overpopulated, and procreation is practically a crime against society. So it is that every Western society other than Israel has a birth rate well below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman on average. This in turn serves another Leftist goal, namely that in order to have enough workers, we need to import millions of people from the Third World upon whom we can lavish taxpayer-paid benefits, grant amnesty, and sign up to vote for Leftist political candidates in perpetuity.
Marriage is going out of style. Recent statistics show that 25% of forty-year-olds have never been married, an all-time high.
I found out this distressing truth in an article by Yudi Sherman in Frontline News which revealed that marriage avoidance is part of a depopulation plan designed by Planned Parenthood over 50 years ago in the Jaffe Memo:
In 1969 an economist named Frederick Jaffe devised a set of proposals to limit US population growth which continue to be put into practice today. Jaffe, who at the time was vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, had created the plan at the request of Bernard Berelson… the head of the Population Council, an organization founded by John D. Rockefeller III in 1952 to stem birth rates in the United States.
In 1969, Berelson was looking for ideas.
Jaffe rose to the occasion and responded with what would later become known as the Jaffe Memo. In it, Jaffe proposed a set of actions which he believed could suppress the US birth rate. He compiled them into a table titled “Proposed measures to reduce fertility by universality or selectivity of impact in the US.”
Some of those proposed measures were to “encourage increased homosexuality,” “to allow harmless contraceptives to be distributed nonmedically,” to “make contraception truly available and accessible,’ and to provide ‘abortion and sterilization on demand.”
Another measure was titled “Restructure family” and contained two parts: “(a) Postpone or avoid marriage,” and “(b) Alter image of ideal family size.”
These were listed alongside two of Jaffe’s other propositions, which were to drive women into higher education and to convince more women to join the workforce… [both of which reduce the desire to bear children].
Another part of the strategy is using gender confusion ideology to prevent mass births. Whereas men and women naturally breed, masculinizing women and effeminizing men—contravening “gender norms”—is an effective way to stagnate a population.
In addition, an article by Michael Clary on kings-domain.com cites other proposals, among the scariest of which are “compulsory sterilization of all who have two children except for a few who would be allowed three” and “confine child bearing to only a limited number of adults.”
Historically, when the Bolsheviks first took control of Russia, Lenin attempted to outlaw marriage, but strong popular disapproval caused him to back down. Nowadays, however, it seems that social media are a far more effective means of propaganda than Pravda. Thus, the Jaffe Memo has been extraordinarily successful, having had a powerful influence on government, media, and non-governmental organizations alike, as initiated by President Nixon’s creation of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future (with Jaffe and Berelson among its members) that issued the 1972 Kissinger report, which concluded that further population growth was not in America’s interest. Implementing the Jaffe plan, Marxist feminists have encouraged women to act like men, putting career ahead of family, and have further portrayed men as oversexed cretins. This began in the culture with the character of Al Bundy on the 1980s sitcom Married with Children, and evolving to the point where any form of manhood beyond docility is viewed as “toxic masculinity.” Women are told that motherhood hurts their career; a literature search shows growing approval of having only one child, a trend accelerated by women’s increasing education levels. [I myself am an only child.] And for many in this self-centered age, children are an annoyance, a responsibility that interferes with other pursuits, to the point where there are now even reports of people marrying themselves, complete with a formal ceremony.
What we rarely hear about are the career women in their fifties who wake up to being alone at night, with no husband, no children—maybe a pet cat or dog for companionship, and a deficient sense of fulfillment.
America now stands at the edge of a precipice. If the moral and social rot that increasingly pervades our society is allowed to proceed unchecked, the ending is clear. Just look at the history of ancient Rome. What began as a republic with at least some degree of civic virtue degraded into an increasingly corrupt empire that eventually collapsed when its subjects, besotted by bread and circuses, were unable—and sometimes unwilling—to repel the barbarians at the gate.
