Note by Ruth Gaskovski on Substack: "“…men and women can lose the taste for family life, for one another, and for posterity” - my daughter is attending her first year at university and regularly reports on the ubiquitous aversion to marriage among students, how many female students refer to men in general as ‘disgu…"
Is South Korea’s extremely rapid modernization one of the greatest success stories in history, as is typically thought, or has it been an extinction-level catastrophe for Korean civilization? That’s what I came away wondering after reading three fascinating recent pieces on South Korea’s demographic collapse (below). South Korea’s total fertility rate is under 0.8 (the lowest in the world) and falling. The impact of … Birth rates in South Korea are cratering. That country’s birth dearth demonstrates that men and . . . . “…men and women can lose the taste for family life, for one another, and for posterity” - my daughter is attending her first year at university and regularly reports on the ubiquitous aversion to marriage among students, how many female students refer to men in general as ‘disgusting’, and how almost none of them view parenthood as part of their future because it would eat too much into their freedom. The excessive focus on self is a powerful ‘anti-natal’ technology. Ge
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