Aside: I hang out in 'Pro Natalism' social media every once in a while.
It's a really strange place and a bit fun as a result.
The thing is that low fertility impacts everyone, so you get a lot of strange bedfellows. The fundamentalists of nearly every religion are interacting with each other, not always calmly, but mostly. And they're boosting very pro Marxist accounts for some article or study from a very pro capitalist account. You get radical trad-fems interacting with Catholics and Mormons calmly. You have Pakistanis and Indians not shouting at each other. Even Democrats and Republicans are holding hands and clutching pearls.
Really, it's just the LGBT community's wings that aren't there. Because they mostly have no dog in the pro natalism fight.
They had a conference earlier this year in ... Austin (?). It went okayish. Mostly just neckbeardy dudes with like too many kids and a Mormon bent. But also some good talks from the history folks and some socialists.
I have exactly zero hopes that any of these people stay coherent in this goal. It's just not in the nature of social media to abet it.
Oh yes, there are lot of those folks in there too.
But then you get hardcore socialists from Korea that are pretty worried about the issues there. And some muslim scholars sometimes. Like, I said, it's a 'fun' grab bag of people.
Realistically, once the solution presents itself to how to get people to have more kids, then the whole place is going to splinter as they all go their separate ways and try to implement it and be some '-ist/-ism' again.
Everyone in the pro-natalism sphere is just looking and bumbling about trying to figure out what thing or program or list of incentives is going to make people have more kids. No one has a clue what the recipe is yet, so they're comfortable talking with ideological opposites until that recipe is found and it's winner take all.
It's a really strange place and a bit fun as a result.
The thing is that low fertility impacts everyone, so you get a lot of strange bedfellows. The fundamentalists of nearly every religion are interacting with each other, not always calmly, but mostly. And they're boosting very pro Marxist accounts for some article or study from a very pro capitalist account. You get radical trad-fems interacting with Catholics and Mormons calmly. You have Pakistanis and Indians not shouting at each other. Even Democrats and Republicans are holding hands and clutching pearls.
Really, it's just the LGBT community's wings that aren't there. Because they mostly have no dog in the pro natalism fight.
They had a conference earlier this year in ... Austin (?). It went okayish. Mostly just neckbeardy dudes with like too many kids and a Mormon bent. But also some good talks from the history folks and some socialists.
I have exactly zero hopes that any of these people stay coherent in this goal. It's just not in the nature of social media to abet it.
But still, an interesting place while it's here.