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- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/479/
- Published: 2005-03-22T15:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-18T10:12:00.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

The Birth Dearth

Mark Steyn at *The Telegraph* discusses the “birth dearth” in Europe and the trouble it portends. A similar problem confronts the U.S. to a lesser extent (for now; we generally lag behind European decadence by a few years, but eventually catch up). [**LINK**](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/03/22/do2202.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/03/22/ixopinion.html&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Two excerpts:

“Since 1945, a multiplicity of government interventions - state pensions, subsidised higher education, higher taxes to pay for everything - has so ruptured traditional patterns of inter-generational solidarity that in Europe a child is now an optional lifestyle accessory. By 2050, Estonia's population will have fallen by 52 per cent, Bulgaria's by 36 per cent, Italy's by 22 per cent. The hyper-rationalism of post-Christian Europe turns out to be wholly irrational: what's the point of creating a secular utopia if it's only for one generation?”

“The 19th-century Shaker communities were forbidden from breeding and could increase their number only by conversion. The Euro-Canadian-Democratic Party welfare secularists seem to have chosen the same predicament voluntarily, and are likely to meet the same fate. The martyrdom culture of radical Islam is a literal dead end. But so is the slyer death culture of post-Christian radical narcissism. This is the political issue that will determine all the others: it's the demography, stupid.”