The Culture of Death and the Global Recession
Tags: Morality.
Profligacy and death go ill together:
Bankers are not the cause of the global economic crisis, according to the president of the Institute for the Works of Religion. Rather, the cause is ordinary people who do not “believe in the future” and have few or no children.
“The true cause of the crisis is the decline in the birth rate,” Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, said in an interview on Vatican Television’s “Octava Dies.”
He noted the Western world’s population growth rate is at 0% — that is, two children per couple — and this, he said, has led to a profound change in the structure of society.
“Instead of stimulating families and society to again believe in the future and have children […] we have stopped having children and have created a situation, a negative economic context decrease,” Gotti Tedeschi observed. “And decrease means greater austerity.”
“With the decline in births,” he explained, “there are fewer young people that productively enter the working world. And there are many more elderly people that leave the system of production and become a cost for the collective.
And, of course, tens of millions of abortions – we’ve lost a great deal because we wanted to be rich without working and loved without family responsibility. I plead guilty, guilty, guilty.
We must return to sanity – to a willingness to do hard, physical work; to commit to one person and raise as many children as God provides; to put off personal gratification in favor of having a gift to leave our children. If we do this, then we will be happy – and prosperous, in to the bargain. If we don’t do this, then we’ll eventually die out.
The choice is ours – decline is never an thing of fate but an act of will.
Mark Noonan is co-author (with Matt Margolis) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Nevada News and Views. Follow Mark on Twitter.
18 Responses to “The Culture of Death and the Global Recession”
Caucus of Corruption
Mark
We must return to sanity – to a willingness to do hard, physical work; to commit to one person and raise as many children as God provides; to put off personal gratification in favor of having a gift to leave our children. If we do this, then we will be happy – and prosperous, in to the bargain. If we don’t do this, then we’ll eventually die out.
The choice is ours – decline is never an thing of fate but an act of will.
That is only part of the story.We now have something like 42% of our citizens who pay NO federal tax, and a huge amount on some sort of food stamps or assistance which makes the whole concept unsustainable for much longer.
yep – its called raising the standard of living…the rising tide lifting all boats as it were.
the global recession is ending fortunately.
now we need to rebuild maunfacturing & construction jobs.
nuke plants would help…
I agree
We frequently make fun of and ridicule the Leftists who leave their droppings here, but, in all seriousness, the people at the top of the Leftists/Progressive food chain are truly a scary bunch.
” rich without working and loved without family responsibility.”
This is an excellent summary of the hedonistic approach to life that is stripping it of meaning other than immediate gratification.
And it doesn’t need a religious context. It is just as valid a point when viewed from a secular perspective.
Thanks for the link, Spook. It is interesting to follow the thread, as it starts with admitting that the AGW thing may be false but sometimes it is necessary to lie to get what you want, to the next step which is to use those lies to eliminate national sovereignty and establish a world government which abolishes capitalism as well as democracty, and then of course the next step of getting rid of most of the people on the planet…..it’s a fascinating, if disturbing, continuum.
I thought this summed up a lot of it: “”Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty,
reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.”
“set levels of mortality control”…..
hmmmm I’d almost think that could be a reference to Death Panels, but would just get the trolls howling at the moon again.
Amazona,
The scary part is that it’s not some right-wing nut giving an uneducated opinion of the Left’s agenda — it’s the leaders of the Progressive movement in their own words over a period of several decades. Absent a whole lot of ordinary people coming to their senses, I don’t see a happy ending.
That is the weirdest thing i have ever read. Isn’t it better to have 2 children or 3 children that you can spend equal amount of time with and give them enough attention? geez, i have one new born and it is hard enough taking him to gymboree and all of that crap and trying socialize him with regular babies. It’s worth it but it is not easy. If you have 8 kids do you really think they can all get equal attension? I really doubt it and also how do you send all 8 to college or give them the needs of SAT prep or whatever they need. Education is key but i also think showing kids that you can make a lot of money and have a good life is you are electrician who doesn’t need a college degree. Whatever i am young and idealistic.
Jake, just look at what you wrote. You are fretting about how much effort it takes to take your one child to gymboree, and to “..socialize him with regular babies…”—evidently you are clueless that these activities are only necessary because you only have one child
The whole gymboree thing, the whole thing about getting together with other parents so your child can be around other children, is the result of the determination that so many things take prededence over the old values of family.
I grew up in a moderately sized family, with four children, but had cousins whose families had six, seven, and nine children. We all had all the love and care we needed. Gymboree? WE PLAYED TOGETHER. Socialization? WE PLAYED TOGETHER. We were sent outside to play, and we were busy all day long. We ran, we invented cities and forts and castles, we played tag, we were busy and we were healthy and strong. And socialized. Where you seem to think that a child is “socialized” by spending organized time with other children his own age, true socialization is when you grow up with siblings and cousins and neighbors, when you take responsibility for your younger siblings and relatives, when you interact on a daily—hourly–basis with family members. You learn your place, you learn that older kids have more perks but more responsibility, you learn that younger kids need more supervision and care. You learn about life, and you learn about responsibility, and you learn that you and your needs are not the center of the universe.
You sound overwhelmed, and as this is your first that is understandable. A close friend just had twins—her fourth and fifth children, in just over five years. They had thought that four kids, close together, would be a great family, and the news of twins was a shock. But she says that it is not that hard. But we laughed about how it seemed so much harder sometimes when there was just one, when she was the center of the universe and the total focus of all their energy. And BTW, her husband is an electrician without a college degree.
You don’t owe your kids a college education. In spite of the whining of the Obamas as they complained about having to pay for the educations that got them their million-dollar lifestyle, it is not necessarily a good thing to hand your children a free pass to college.
“Bankers are not the cause of the global economic crisis, according to the president of the Institute for the Works of Religion. Rather, the cause is ordinary people who do not “believe in the future” and have few or no children.”
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this is an opinion not shared by leading economists…
…nor very many informed citizens I suspect.
comon jake – look at the source.
I don’t think it’s just about the declining birth rate. I think a lot of it is what I just wrote about—the kind of person who evolves from a childhood in which he is the center of everything, where he has no responsibilities for other people, where he has no sense of fitting into a greater whole, where he learns the lessons you learn when you have older and younger siblings, when you have the opportunity to see how your parents handle conflicts, etc.
When I was younger, an only child was an anomaly, and they always seemed different—more aloof, more sensitive, more timid, less adventuresome, less resilient. Now that we are becoming a nation of such children, is that a good thing? Is it better to grow up in a large family where there are loud and robust disgreements, and you learn to hold your own and understand that disagreeing is not the end of the world, or to become an adult who takes disagreements personally and who has no background of having to stand up for himself by convincing others of the merits of his position?
i grew up with two brothers and my older brother made sure i was not out of line. A lot of reasons i wrestled or played football in high school was because he would come home and beat the crap out of me. I think the gymboree thing is fine and it is good not to live in an island all by yourself. Time will tell and it is my first so who knows what will happen. We plan to have one or two more. If we get the baby girl we are stopping. I don’t think college is right but i want my kid to have the same opportunities that i have and have the same doors open to him. Education is important. Maybe it is my jewish values but in my house hold we put a huge amount of time and effort into education and learning. I don’t want him to inherit the business i worked very hard to create but be his own person. By the way i am still close to my brothers and we have brunch probably every other weekend and i see my parents almost every other day because it is their first grand child.
Goldjake,
You’re trying to control life – you’re trying to script your child’s life. You’ve bought the whole, sorry experiment we embarked on a bit more than a century ago.
There is no right number of kids to have – get married, have a normal sex life, and see what comes out – none or 10; you’ll deal with it, just fine, as long as you keep your promises.
Life is to be lived, not controlled.
golddigger
I think the gymboree thing is fine
Good GRIEF….latte and quiche?
Very good write-up, Mark.
Much in agreement here.
It’s always a sign that society has taken hold of the wrong story when they’ve rejected the definition of family is it is contained in the Bible, the true definition of family, and only form of family that will allow society to work and succeed.
You know, Glenn Beck was just explaining how we were once a thriving nation with capitalism as our form of economics, because it allowed people the freedom to think for themselves…and thus, America was a leader at that time in our history in the market of inventing. And this was because we held that there is a Higher Authority, who gives us the command to not be slothful, but to work and give God ten percent of our earnings that we might honor Him in our being blessed with the ability to prosper, as He is the hand of Providence that supplies our needs.
Then we allowed atheists to implement their form of economics which is communism, and it therefore, the government put communism into action by taking away our ability and right to think for ourselves by persuading us through welfare schemes, and thus all our thoughts and very survival are placed in the hands of the government, in a central authority power-structure. And in the way we think part, there can be no better example of this than in our system of education…it is atheistic, anti-Christian, and communistic. They are raising young elites for those that make it to college, and they are taught how to game the system, and less about hard work, and common sense.
For those areas where there are a large number of Christian families inhabiting those areas, the communists target these areas the greatest…they want to eliminate a large number of these people because they are undesirable to their cause. So they set up abortion mills, and sex education programs, to encourage the children of these Christian families who attend public schools to be promiscuous early on in life so that they will catch an STD and die, or abort their resulting children. Whichever they can tempt them into doing first. These are atheistic programs, and part or parcel of the communist agenda.
Then there are drug problems – where I live, it is an older age community, and most of the younger people have done moved off and are leaving to go to other States to either further their education or get a job (as most of the work around here is dangerous work…cutting trees and going underground), or to leave for better, warmer climate conditions (many people leave because of the cold, snowy winters). But for those who are left, there has become a major problem with drugs – I could not tell you the number of people in the last few years that have overdosed on drugs. Then there are the troublemakers, who are constantly stealing or tearing something up in order to make money for their drug habits…and of course, this is all fueled by the government’s welfare schemes. Thus, we have the destruction of capitalism and independence.
Capitalism works, there is no doubt about it, but so many Americans opted for the communism and took God out of capitalism. And that’s what started our problems in this country.
So, we need to do some things to fix this: We need to first get back to God, and get the government atheists and their programs out of our schools.
Then we need to get rid of the welfare and start inventing things and putting people to work.
This coming November would be a great time to start, and in 2012. If the people don’t make this change, then we are either doomed as a nation, or we can rise up and try to save the nation by not-so peaceful means. What do you say?
Jeremiah,
Never completely doomed – with us, maybe, it is impossible; with God, all things are possible…even rescuing the US from idiocy.
The thing about that, though, Mark, is that God must hear America’s cry before He can do that.
America is into willful idiocy, and there is a price that must be paid before America can be rescued from that idiocy, and that is by leaving their idols behind, and that includes every earthly thing that they hold dear. It could be as simple as making time to pray and read the Bible with the children. Another example might be someone who has a job where they are at a computer all day and that gives them access to pornography, in order to make it right with God…they will have to put in their two-week notice and give up that job in order to please God, and find work where that temptation is of no hindrance to their walk of faith, as there is nothing more important than our walk of faith in Christ.
It could be as simple as giving more to charity, or taking time to help an elderly woman up or down a set of stairs. These are the simple things, and they help to make use of our talent for God.
As to the larger needs of the nation, they will have to make wise decisions as to their vote, showing that they want God more than they do mammon. That they want to do what God’s Word tells them to do on how to raise a family, and how they want their children to be taught.
When God sees then, that the people are willing to do this, then we will see a big change. The church pews will be full on Sunday mornings, and America will prosper once again!
My worst fear, however, is that it will take another disaster to bring this about, much worse than 9/11, for which case, then it would be too late, and this would not be at the hands of terrorists, but from within by our own government.
Let us hope that that will not be the case, but that people would return to their sure and only hope in the Cross of Jesus!
Jeremiah,
It is hard, though, isn’t it? I had always thought it rather lazy of the Apostles when Our Lord found them sleeping in the garden and upbraided them for not even being able to spend an hour with him. But, my goodness, you get going with your day and all of a sudden its evening and you’ve hardly thought of God all day – and when do we give him 15 minutes, let alone a full hour?
I’m going to make a point of it – try to fit that hour in.