You Can Choose to Persuade Rather Than Parent

There's a lot to like about Western civilization. It's clearly imperfect, but nothing of this world is perfect. Some people are hellbent on destroying Western civilization and others are useful dupes who are working for the same goal, without realizing it. A major component of Western civilization (WC) is Europe. As such, some people who hate WC and some people who love WC equate the concept with "white" people.

Many defenders of WC fret about the "low fertility rate" in European and certain Anglosphere countries, like the USA. Essentially, if the people of these countries don't have enough children to replace themselves (meaning, more than one child per parent, or more than two children per married couple), the countries will either undergo depopulation or immigrants will fill the void, taking up available residences and jobs.

Some of these fretful defenders of WC really do see it as White Culture and are very concerned that "white" people aren't having enough children and are being "replaced" by others.

Whether someone is concerned about white or Western, they see it as the duty of Europeans, Americans (of European ancestry, if white is the concern), etc. to get married and have and raise at least three children and, in some cases, as many as possible. That way, they reason, we can defend and perpetuate Western culture, preserving our heritage.

There's a problem with that, however.


I reject the idea that our genes are what have made Western culture.

Western culture has been about ideas, principles, values, and priorities. These things can be embraced by people regardless of ancestry or skin color.

Yes, they're likely to say, but when you're a parent you have someone to whom you can pass down your values and heritage.

How many people go through all of the troubles of raising children, even saving to pay ridiculous college costs, send their teenagers off to college, and then those students are brainwashed into values that are hostile to their parents'? How many abandon the faith of their family? How many outright reject their parents and how many more become distant and indifferent? PLENTY!!!

Popping out babies is no guarantee of perpetuating Western civilization or American values. Persuading others to adopt and keep the values and traditions we treasure can be more effective than parenting.

I look at my own situation. My parents are divorced now, but were together for my entire childhood. I largely agree with them politically. However, if I had to describe my parents' overall worldview, I'd say it closely resembles secular humanism, although my father, who did take us to church when were kids, has some tinge of faith. Me, I'm convinced of Biblical theology, persuaded by several people who were not my parents. I'm far more like my father's late older brother, with whom I only spent a few hours every several years, and my siblings and I are all very different.

Reading through the entries of this blog, especially the more recent ones, you'll see that I now believe most men shouldn't marry or have children. I find calls to marry and have children as a "duty" to perpetuate "Western civilization" to be unconvincing. I have had children, one of whom I would advise against having children unless there are significant changes in this child, law, and culture, but I'm fine with people with darker skin living in my home after it is no longer mine, having my heirlooms after they're no longer mine, doing my job after it is no longer mine, and replacing me as a voter after I die, especially if they are decent people who embrace American values, and even more so if they are followers of Christ. If my children were to marry and/or have children, I'd have no problem with them doing so with someone whose ancestors would be described as Asian, African, Pacific Islander, or Native American.

Light skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes can be beautiful. So can very dark skin, black hair, and brown eyes. Both, I'm fairly confident, will always exist, even as we see beautiful people whose genes are from diverse ancestries. I reject that idea that there is a Divine command to avoid blending. Diversity is a result of thousands of years of people living in largely insular villages and doing what amounts to inbreeding. We don't live like that anymore.

Yes, the best of Western Culture is worth preserving, and no, not all cultures are of equal value. Consider history, during which some cultures destroyed themselves. Follow the migration. People are literally dying to come here. Compare what is adopted more by people who have choices. These are hints about which cultures are better.

What is the best of our culture? I'd argue that in addition to certain works of art and certain foods, it is things like:

• Liberty - limited, constitutional government, free enterprise, freedom of association, freedom of speech, self-determination and self-reliance, upward mobility regardless of birth; innocent of criminal conviction until proven guilty/due process.
• In God We Trust - ethical monotheism, freedom of religion, limited tolerance, Christianity.
• E Pluribus Unum - a pride in, and desire, to, become an American in identity, regardless of origins; brings the best traditions from the old country and integrates them with American traditions and tastes.
• Equality Under the Law - a nation of laws, not men; government is of the people, by the people, for the people; people treated as individuals.
• Voluntaryism, civic organizations, charity.
• Innovation and progress.

"Race" is not important. Ideals and values are. America is the pinnacle of Western Culture., a country founded on the idea of limiting government. As wrong as Dennis Prager is in encouraging men to marry, he's right about the American Trinity.

It's a big problem that many of the people fleeing bad and failing cultures don't realize things like big government and socialism are a big part of the problem; they mistakenly think that if only the right people were in charge, things would work out. It's even worse when these people buy into the absurdity that "capitalism" and  "white" native-born Americans are the problem, and some of the subset buying into the idea that they need to exact racially/ethnically-based "revenge".

The way to preserve the best of Western Civilization is to influence the new generations and the new arrivals. Literally engage in documentation and preservation, make media content, teach, mentor, engage, and persuade, so that people will know history, defend American values, and embrace the best of Western Civilization. This is to what males should aspire.


So, I reject the Quiverfull movement, the example of the Duggars, and whether a person's willingness to have a lot of children is is rooted in Roman Catholicism, Mormonism, Orthodox Judaism, or "racial" dominance/preservation. I fail to see why contraception is immoral if other treatments of our bodies aren't.

I also reject the notion that the planet is overpopulated. It's not.

I'm not concerned with overpopulation or underpopulation, because it's clear plenty of people will continue to make babies.

My main concern with this blog is protecting men from making huge mistakes and being any more subjected to a system that disadvantages them any more than they have to be. Men who have children do so at great risk and limitation to themselves, and more children they have, the worse off they will be (in most cases), unless they leech off of their grown children. I do not encourage men to marry or make children. Most shouldn't.

If you're worried that too many "brown" or "black" people are going to be living in America, well, I feel sorry for you. I urge to to reject any fixation on "race" and instead promote American values.