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".......Some can't have children. Others forget to have them, being
distracted by education and careers.
"But the proudly, defiantly childfree? To call them selfish is like
saying that Barack Obama is somewhat disingenuous. Basically, their
attitude is après moi, who-gives-a-bleep. Time magazine calls this
trailblazing and heroic.
"In a Townhall.com commentary, David Stokes reminds us of the words of
Theodore Roosevelt on a European tour in 1910: 'The greatest of all
curses is the curse of sterility, and the severest of all
condemnations should be that visited on the willfully sterile.'
"The Old Bull Moose and committed natalist contended: 'If the failure
is due to the deliberate and willful fault, then it is not merely a
misfortune, it is one of those crimes of ease and self-indulgence, of
shrinking from pain and effort and risk, which in the long run nature
punishes more heavily than any other. If we of the great republics, if
we, the free people who claim to have emancipated ourselves from the
thralldom of wrong and error, bring down on our heads the curse that
comes upon the willfully barren, then it will be an idle waste of
breath to prattle of our achievements, to boast of all that we have
done.'
"It's a good thing our 26th president built the Panama Canal, created
the National Park system, helped to launch the modern Navy, and - in
many ways - guided America into the 20th century. The father of six,
whose visage smiles down on us from Mount Rushmore, would never have
made it at Time."
For those who don't know, Don Feder is a fundamentalist columnist. I
seem to remember his writing about Disney's "Snow White" the last time
it was on the big screen - that must have been soon before it went to
video. He said, IIRC, that THIS is the sort of woman American girls
should model themselves after. (He was also, I think, pretty bitter
about all the more recent fictional female personalities created by
Hollywood who didn't exactly - or even remotely - resemble Snow
White's personality.)
I also remember his rave review of the 1999 Brendan Fraser comedy
"Blast from the Past" and how he hinted that it was proof that the
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(this was the only place I could find the review)
However, the movie itself doesn't quite say that - for one thing, one
of the first things Fraser's character does as an adult is to greet a
black woman in a pseudo-polite manner that was clearly meant to make
the audience cringe.
population was only about 2.5 billion people. With today's 7-billion-
and-counting global population, it's a different story. Those who choose
their offspring by not having any offspring of our own.