During the mid-1990s, the Clinton Co-Presidency unveiled a concept called It Takes a Village to Raise a Child, which really just put into social policy what Americans had been doing already: outsourcing as many familial and parental responsibilities to the 'community' as humanly possible. The Neocon Right criticized the policy but then adopted it wholeheartedly once they came into power. We saw the Neocons sink to their nadir during the Scamdemic when 'Conservatives' lined up to re-open the hellscapes called American Public Schools---even over the objections of the Whacko Left.
Our woke, evolved Republican Party of 2025 apparently believes that American parents haven't outsourced child-rearing sufficiently, so the self-proclaimed world's smartest man and America's leading pop-culture icon, Elon Musk has suggested Artificial Intelligence could help.
OK, so maybe Musk has fathered over a dozen children through surrogates, and promotes transhumanist schemes like Neurolink and other WEF-backed population control agendas. Maybe---despite his superior intellect---he was tricked into signing a Consent Form for gender-affirming care when one of his bastards decided to troon out. We can totally trust him because he's wealthy and the President listens to him.
To back up these new normals in parenting, we've appointed another stellar specimen of superior family values and bastion of traditional cultural norms to head the US Department of Education.
To top it all off, New Right pundits hold up other excellent role-models for all men and women hoping to build lasting, traditional relationships; even to the point of promoting them for political office.
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If we still had an actual Conservative Movement in the US, the family would be the center of Social Policy, as it once was. The Incels, transhumanists, and homosexuals (both open and closeted) running the American 'Right' today are not about to do that. The Democrats, of course, threw the traditional family under the bus a long time ago.
The solution would be to reject all of these influencers and interest groups categorically and parents to begin networking with other like-minded people and community leaders. Above all, we need to start caring about our children again. Whether or not Americans have enough character left to do this, is the question facing us despite what the experts say.
Well, I can't argue with any of that. We have pretty much outsourced the family and children to the state and now we are going to just slide over and outsource it all to AI. Well, I hope not, but I suspect it is somewhat inevitable given human nature and the march of so called "progress."
ReplyDeleteReading to kids, as I'm sure you probably know is not just about "telling a story," it's about building relationship, creating bonds, and developing loyalty. This is one reason why drag queen story hour was such an abomination. It's a form of grooming. The same will be true of AI.
Musk most likely suffers from a type of autism. He is very intelligent, but his respect for human biology, his ability to empathize in a relational context, is almost non existent. He is part of the reason why I am on this empathy bandwagon. It's one thing to have a disability, it's entirely different to deliberately chose to disconnect from empathy because empathy is a big part of what makes us human and helps us to comprehend ethics and morality.
I'm glad you're starting a push-back against these Churchians and their crusade against norms of civilized behavior. It's a little-known fact, but during the Third Reich, pro-Nazi religious leaders also preached about the 'Sin of Empathy' and against other Christian values.
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The US is currently at or near the bottom of the OECD nations in terms of just about every category relating to childcare, childbirth, education, etc. and near the top in youth addictions, suicides, violence, infertility, illiteracy, obesity, and gender dysphoria among other undesirable numbers. Really, the fact that so many marriages end in divorce and so many consider Abortion a fundamental human right tells us all we really need to know about Americans' attitudes towards parenting. Once our own Nazis finish ethnically-cleansing our immigrant population, we'll probably have negative birth-to-death ratios as well.
As for Musk, I think that Autism is part of many mental illnesses that he suffers from. One of his surrogates gave an account about Musk's attitude on child-raising: “To reach legion-level before the apocalypse,” he said to St. Clair in a text message viewed by The Wall Street Journal, “we will need to use surrogates.”