The Sexual Revolution And Demographic Winter
A Speech By Don Feder To The International Forum: Large Family And The Future of Humanity
Moscow, September 10-12, 2014
Don Feder
Commentary by Julio Severo: When the American author Don Feder gave this speech in Moscow, I was there
too. We
also were at the Kremlin, involved in events against abortion,
sodomy and Marxism. His following text is just a sample of the speeches we had
at the Kremlin and other places in Moscow.
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| Julio Severo and Don Feder at the Kremlin |
If
current trends continue, we won't run out of energy or other resources in the
foreseeable future. We will run out of people. This global catastrophe will be
the result of rapidly declining fertility, designated Demographic Winter.
The
fertility rate refers to the number of children the average woman has in her
lifetime. A rate of 2.1 is needed just to replace current population. In 1960,
worldwide, the average woman had 5 children. Now, that number is 2.6 and
falling. Today, 59 countries with 44% of the world's population have
below-replacement fertility – in some cases, well-below replacement. Many
developed nations have fertility rates of 1.5 or lower.
How
did we get here? The principal culprit is the Sexual Revolution – a phenomenon
first manifested in the late 1960s, not coincidentally, about the time birth
rates began to decline.
The
dogma of the Sexual Revolution – which has become ingrained social wisdom in
Western nations – might be summed up as follows: 1. Sex is the most important
aspect of existence. 2. When sex is consensual, it's always good. 3. The
primary purpose of sex is pleasure, not procreation or spiritual connection. 4.
The primary purpose of life is pleasure 5. Inhibitions lead to neuroses and
must be overcome. 6. Sex has nothing to do with morality or values and 7. Sex
should not only be guilt-free, but free of consequences – hence contraception,
hence abortion, hence the abandonment of marriage.
My
wife and I were in Montreal a few years ago. In a store window, we saw a
T-shirt that said "Make Love, Not Babies." That could be the motto of
the Sexual Revolution – except, it's not even making love anymore, but what's
called "having sex."
The
prophets of the Sexual Revolution include "researchers" (and I use
the term advisedly) like Alfred Kinsey and Masters and Johnson, pornographers
like Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and feminists like Margaret Sanger, Betty
Freidan and Simone de Beauvoir.
The effect
of the Sexual Revolution on fertility has been profound, far-reaching and
possibly irreversible.
For
the first time in history, just under half the world's population of
child-bearing age uses some form of birth control. By 2015, the global
contraceptives market will generate an estimated $17.2 billion annually.
Generally,
this is financed by governments, businesses or international agencies. Many
species have become extinct. Ours may be the first to finance its own
extinction.
Worldwide,
there are roughly 42 million abortions a year. That's more than twice the
number of military deaths in World War II – the bloodiest conflict in human
history – except that, instead of a country's soldiers killed in battle, these
are casualties a nation inflicts on itself.
From
a demographic perspective, we're not just losing 42 million people annually,
but also their children, grandchildren and other descendants down through the
ages. We are, quite literally, aborting our future.
The
decline of marriage has affected fertility far more profoundly than
contraceptives.
In
the United States, in 2009, 41% of all births were out-of-wedlock. As these
children mature (most in single-parent homes), they're likely to continue the
family tradition of not forming families.
Childbearing
does not thrive in a climate of uncertainty. In 2008, in the U.S., 40% of all
marriages ended in divorce.
And
fewer and fewer are marrying in the first place. In France, in 2010, more
people began living together than married.
In
1960, 72% of all U.S. adults were married. By 2008 the figure had dropped to
51%. Among 18-to-29-year-olds – those in their prime childbearing years – 59%
were married in 1960, compared to only 20% today.
Once
a central reality of existence, marriage is now optional. We marry because we
choose to, not because we ought to. Not surprisingly, fewer marriages result in
fewer children.
Just
as the declining birth rates are the result of the Sexual Revolution, the later
is a product of something called Cultural Marxism – a movement associated with
Antonio Gramsci (he of the "long march through the culture") Georg
Lukacs, the Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse. Cultural Marxism was their
answer to the failure of worldwide revolution after the First World War.
Gramsci theorized that the family and the church gave workers a "false
class consciousness" that made them immune to the appeals of Marxism.
The
solution, then, was to destroy family and religion – and what better way to do
that than to foster licentious ("free love" in the vernacular of the
era), and a society oriented toward mindless pleasure, rather than
childbearing, family formation and the search for higher meaning.
While
there's no proof that dramatically declining fertility is what Cultural
Marxists wanted, if you think about it logically that's the natural consequence
of undermining faith and family and a highly eroticized society where family is
viewed as an obstacle to self-fulfillment and children as a burden.
We
won't find our way out of the forest of demographic winter until the Sexual
Revolution is overthrown – its premises rejected, its prophets exposed and its
dogma debunked.
Ultimately,
the Sexual Revolution is about death – abortion, contraception (preventing life
from happening), sexually-transmitted disease, pornography and promiscuity, in
place of marriage, fidelity and childbearing.
To
combat Demographic Winter, we must embrace a philosophy of life. As the Bible
says: "I have set before you this day life and death, blessing and curses.
Therefore choose life, so that you may live, you and your children."
Source: GrassTopsUsa,
via Last Days Watchman
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