When I recently wrote about the severe and increasing subfertility of the populations of all developed societies in the world; I had not realized that this was becoming a topic in the mass media... Sort of.
Because the discussions reveal that people have not even begun to consider the implications of subfertility.
The implications of subfertility go way beyond the currently permissible discussions of human psychology, sociology, and economics - the true implications are biological, they affect people as functional and reproductive beings.
Fertility is a big topic, much too big to summarize here; and it takes a fair while to think-through - but the subject has been (I think) well understood by some people for some decades; and some outcomes of differential- and sub-fertility are (I believe) baked-in and highly predictable.
Differences in average fertility is natural selection of human beings; and such differentials Just Are evolution in action.
Subfertility is extinction - but a subfertile population suffers massive declines in functionality, long before the actual extinction, although of course this will accelerate the extinction.
I don't talk much about all this stuff, because people don't like to talk about it - and are enmeshed in their own feelings and their need for optimism in order to escape what would otherwise be despair.
Because those addicted to optimism do not want to know that the damage is largely done, and we are just awaiting for the implications to unfold. There is little that anybody can do about it - not least because nobody really wants to do anything about it.
So much so, that the only reason to think about the subject at all, is if you really want to understand what is happening, and what will happen to human beings as biological creatures.
And not may want to understand stuff, for its own sake.
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