After watching the 2012 Bad Movie on YouTube , I realized that human culture is currently structured with the wrong priorities. The YouTube movie easily showed scenes of murder and fighting, but censored the sex scenes. This inspired me to write this article.
* Meme A unit of culturally significant information. This article refers to information transmitted through texts, images, film, music, sculpture, media, speech, and so on. Morality is formed on the basis of memes , and criminal codes and human behavior are formed on the basis of morality. Meme according to Richard Dawkins .
*The state is a certain elite that ensures the existence of a certain social contract in a certain territory.
Humanity has very strange priorities when it comes to censoring film footage: you can't show sex, but you can show murder and dismemberment . What's wrong with our priorities?
Maybe this is the problem with birth rates?
Why is there a cultural taboo against showing genitals, but not against showing murder?
Maybe because we are told to censor by laws based on morality that has failed?
Why do we suppress our sexual instinct in memes , but not our desire to kill?
Why do states allow themselves to wage wars where millions of people die, but forbid orgies for even 1,000 people?
Who is worse or who is better: a prostitute or a soldier?
From a moral standpoint, a soldier is probably the best, and a prostitute the worst and most reprehensible. But if we consider this fact separately from modern morality, a prostitute does nothing destructive, while a soldier, whether attacking or defending himself, kills and can be killed himself, and that's bad.
There's a Christian doctrine that says you shall not kill and you shall not commit adultery. Our morality, and later our criminal code, are based on these and other commandments. But! Wars haven't decreased since the adoption of Christianity, and the human desire and ability to make love have diminished. Why is this so?
This is probably because religion most often acted as a censor where it could "reach," where incidents occurred more frequently, and where it was able to regulate. Religion began to censor and taboo love in its various manifestations, but it was unable to engage in war and violence, since sovereigns don't care about the clergy, God, or religious commandments if a king in the Middle Ages or the head of a modern state deems it necessary to wage war. Morality has been shaped in this way for many centuries, and modern criminal codes are based on this morality. That's why we have fewer memes based on the idea of sex and more memes based on the idea of destruction.
I hope you get the idea: Christian commandments don't work at the top level, heads of state can start wars and it's not frowned upon by society, society glorifies war in memes *, and religion can only fight the reproductive instinct by tabooing sex.
As a result, in the 21st century it turned out that from a moral point of view, war became less taboo in society than sex, and it became normal for families to watch films about wars and killings on television, rather than porn or erotica.
Art, media, and literature operate on the same principle; people's consciousness is formed, everything is structured in such a way that the military theme is extolled, and the theme of love and sex is tabooed.
Perhaps this is why there are fewer sculptures dedicated to sex in parks, cities and museums than sculptures dedicated to war.
Perhaps this trend began to emerge during the Roman Empire, when monuments to conquests began to appear in the form of military leaders and triumphal arches, rather than in monuments and buildings dedicated to the gods, as was the case in ancient Greece. For example, during the ancient Greek era, the cultural trend toward glorifying war was at least as strong as the glorification of sex. Amphorae depicted naked people, including warriors. At the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, athletes competed naked and engaged in orgies. There were festivals centered on sex. Today, we cannot imagine the morality of these actions. Where did we go wrong?
In terms of attitudes toward sex and war, the moral difference between ancient Greece and the Roman Empire is greater than the morality of the Roman Empire and that of the 20th and 21st centuries. This small discrepancy between the morality of the Roman Empire and modern times stems from the fact that modern laws are based on Christian values that originated in the Roman Empire. And these morals are based on a distorted interpretation of Christian commandments. I'm talking about the interpretation of Christian commandments, not judging them bad. The commandments are good, but the church and society have misinterpreted and implemented them, biased toward a neutral attitude toward war.
For example, why, from a moral standpoint, can't a woman who wants to have a child approach a man she's interested in and offer to inseminate her? Not just to have sex, but to father a child she wants to raise. Without any desire to snatch half of his property. Simply because she likes this man and wants a child with him. From a moral standpoint, this is strange and incomprehensible, but, in essence, there's nothing wrong with it if the woman can raise the child herself and the man is willing to give her his seed. And the male inseminator , for example, could even get paid for it. This is the practical reality of the ideology I'm trying to describe in this article.
The state is an elite that ensures the existence of a social contract within a given territory. And as a social contract within a state, the Ideology of the Priority of Creation over Destruction (IPSNR) can be used.
But someone in the West has fully or partially grasped this idea and is already implementing it through the LGBT movement. Or this movement exists separately from the ideas expressed in this article, but it resonates well with the ideas in this article.
If a state is a territory inhabited by a group of people with a common understanding of the social contract, then a nation is several generations of people who share this social contract, understand it, and recognize it as correct.
States disappear when the social contract changes and the majority of people no longer accept it . But it may happen that a portion of this people, a portion of the people who still accept this social contract, may remain, and this portion of the people may try to restore the state.
And the people are ready to fight in a war only for an idea, for an attractive social contract.
Truth is information we believe. But we can also believe information that doesn't correspond to reality, so our understanding of truth can change. People once believed in gods, made sacrifices to them, and built temples dedicated to them, but now "god" is just a meme .
The main problem of the civilized world is the declining birth rate. This is probably the root of all other problems. Therefore, morality in society must be shaped to address this problem. For the civilized world, the idea of sex and childbearing must be re-established as fundamental, and the idea of destruction and war must be tabooed in consciousness and morality. Right now, sex is taboo, replaced by the ersatz masturbation . Childcare is poorly funded and perceived as secondary in society: orphanages and raising children by others are associated with something bad. Therefore, the solution to this problem may lie in :
1. Artificial womb.
2. More sex among young people of childbearing age, followed by childbearing. Because if sex is taboo at a young age, we become addicted to the substitute of masturbation , instead of physical love and the desire to have children.
3. Legalize prostitution and end the taboo surrounding the placement of children in orphanages. This means that if a prostitute becomes pregnant, she doesn't abort the child she's carrying, but gives it to an orphanage. She receives a decent salary for the child. Decriminalize prostitution and the raising of children by non-biological parents.
4. Create a more modern orphanage system and increase the prestige of caring for children. Currently, children in orphanages are simply kept like livestock until they reach 18 years of age.
5. Create opportunities for life in villages.
6. De-taboo sex among fertile people and set society to support the fact of having children between the ages of 13 and 18. Because then People have less time for children, their interests in life change, and work becomes a priority instead of starting a family. Moreover, biologically, with age, the desire for sex decreases.
We need to create the following social structure. Young parents aged 13 to 18, if they want, can make love and have children, and society doesn't interfere or condemn them, but rather supports them. Having a child at a young age is, firstly, natural and appropriate; in the past, people didn't live to be 30 or 40. And at a young age, there's no need to think seriously about education and work. Secondly, most young people sit around in school when they could be doing what they want and for the benefit of society: building relationships, having sex, and having children. Most young people will never need chemistry, physics, and other sciences in school. We need to relieve children of this unnecessary obligation ; we need to stop forcing them to engage in useless nonsense. We need to educate those who want and those who are capable of acquiring skills. And if the child is not talented, then why keep him until he is 16, and then marinate him in a vocational school, when he doesn’t learn anything there anyway and when he comes to work, he learns to perform his function on the job on the fly, and I’m not even mentioning the fact that most people, after receiving a diploma, then end up working in a field other than their specialty. The education sector is not functioning effectively . Those who are only smart enough to reproduce, those who want to reproduce, should be given the opportunity to reproduce, and those who want to learn should be given the opportunity to learn, BUT NOT FORCED TO DO ANYTHING! Even after 18, the window of opportunity for people to obtain a school and higher education should not be closed, should the desire arise. Society should not taboo these people or call them stupid. Education should be free. But if, after having a child, young parents realize they cannot raise a child, then they should send the child to an orphanage. Therefore, the topic of orphanages should not be taboo, but rather developed as a vital area for society.
So the birth rate problem isn't about sex, but about the fact that raising a child in the 21st century has become inconvenient due to the established structure of society. Nowadays, young people are marinated in educational institutions until they're 18-22, and after that age, there's no time for love or Starting a family is purely biological! We need to make sure that raising a child at a young age is simple, inexpensive, and occurs during the biological period when it's desired. I propose that this be implemented in society, not just for Not just a couple of specific years, but in 100-150 year increments. Generations need to change for a worldview to develop.
I need to travel to less developed countries with higher birth rates and no Christian ethic, and see how they handle censorship and taboos around sex. If their societies don't taboo sex at all, then my IPSNis correct and can be gradually implemented . That is, I need to go to Africa, where the birth rate is high, and see at what age people have children, what prostitutes do with their children, who raises children in tribes, and how their families are structured.
Like, there are more births in Africa because they're stupid and poor. No, it's not poverty, but the accessibility of having a child and how a child affects a family's FEELING of wealth. In Africa, if you have seven children, you'll eat what you grow or harvest, and that's what you'll eat, so you don't feel poorer after having a child. But in Europe, you have to feed seven children on two salaries. And when parents have even one child, the ! feeling! standard of living plummets, even though the family is richer than in Africa. The birth industry should cost parents $0. The costs of a newborn child and raising a child should have no impact whatsoever on the parents ' ! feeling! of wealth.
needlessly shedding it is hardly a new idea . But still, in my opinion, society needs to somehow begin to shift from a path of condoning violence and murder to one of creation, love, and reproduction. It would seem there's nothing new in this idea, BUT.
Since Christianity began to penetrate society, the number of memes has increased Memes based on the instinct of destruction, that is, on blood, became more numerous than memes based on the instinct of creation. In other words, our morality was formed based on what the church could and could not taboo. The church tabooed sex, but could not taboo war. This is where memes * are formed, which then give rise to morality, and then laws and behavior. I also wrote about this above.
Therefore, now we need to restructure the morality of a smaller but more significant portion of society, and then try to restructure the morality of the majority of society in a new way. This can be done by creating memes based on the principles of creation, not destruction. Memes based on the concept of IPSNcurrently exist, but they are few in number compared to memes created on the idea of destruction. This situation needs to be reversed. For example , there are currently images that beautifully depict a woman and a man, but looking at these images is shameful because of our morality. But there is no shame in looking at a painting of a military battle. Porn sites are now only for people over 18, but footage of murders is publicly available. We need to change the situation so that footage and information about murders are censored within the 18+ category, and pornography should not be so restricted.
Everything we can even think of and imagine in the humanities ! has long been invented by people from previous eras. Consequently, we can only rediscover something and give the well-forgotten old its new status. Therefore, having made some supposed discovery, humanists should not become arrogant, but rather coldly declare that they have once again figured out something that worked hundreds or thousands of years ago and was then forgotten. And if something in the functioning of society, in our opinion, is now outdated, then this supposedly old thing must be removed and replaced with something supposedly new, which, in fact, is a well-forgotten old thing. I hope you, as a reader, accept this thesis.
in vain is hardly a new idea , so society , in my opinion, needs to begin to rebuild from the rails of violence and murder to the rails of creation, love and reproduction.
I believe the ideology of the IPSNwould also be applicable to what the US wants from Russia—to stop considering itself a center of power and leading the world nowhere , to integrate into the global system, and to create instead of competing and waging war. Moreover, the ideology of the IPSNwould be supported even in the rest of the civilized world, since everyone suffers from the taboo surrounding sex and the neutral attitude toward violence in society.
If this ideology is implemented, politicians across the world, where human extinction is occurring, will have something to occupy them for the next 200 years, maybe even longer. Politicians can build a society based not on the desire to destroy and build empires, but on the desire to reproduce and create. And they can do this through the gradual, step-by-step tabooing of violence and expansion, and the strengthening of the importance of sexual culture.
I'll suggest below how to do this from a practical perspective. But it's definitely not about tearing down the old and building something new in its place, and it's definitely not about building brothels and creating rampant debauchery. This has all been tried before, and it's led to nothing good. We need to integrate the ideology of the IPSNinto society based on what currently exists, perhaps on a reformed or newly invented religion, followed by the development of a more refined moral code, and perhaps even through improved legislation. However, we must act constructively, not aggressively—that's the whole point. You can't introduce a new ideology using old methods, as that will only lead to lies and a substitution of concepts.
But if everything we've come up with now happened a long time ago, then we need to look to the past. Perhaps something similar, on the scale I'm proposing now, was done in the 18th century under Peter the Great in Russia, when science, art, nude sculpture, and images were permitted and introduced into a society that was stagnant and degraded relative to the rest of the world. They began to rebuild themselves by breaking with the old morality of a religious society that tabooed sex and was neutral toward violence, and began to adapt to a new society with contemporary trends. This allowed for the leap from a backwater country to the center of a major empire. I believe the implementation of the principles of the IPSNRI could enable something similar for civilization.
Let's say, how many memes based on ideas of creation and love are around you at home or in your community? I don't think many. Now count the number of memes based on ideas of destruction. This is propaganda for values that are unconsciously imposed, the very foundation of morality. Therefore, even in the 21st century, our morality allows us to act as we did in previous dark ages: we think and act in a neutral way toward violence and war, while we shy away from creation and sex and suppress our reproductive instinct. The problem is so profound that society doesn't even realize that our brains were formed in a culture of neutrality toward violence, reproducing this theme in memes around us.
But there are forces on the planet that, perhaps unconsciously, or more likely consciously (but for a small number of elites), have also seen this problem and decided to begin doing something about it, introducing ideas symmetrical to the IPSNinto society. These will probably be people from the Democratic Party in the US, who popularize LGBT. Apparently, someone there also, but before me, hit upon the idea of a society built not on violence but on creativity and began rebuilding the planet along these lines. But there is resistance to the acceptance of the LGBT movement throughout the civilized world, even in the US. Because this, albeit subtle , is a demolition of old morality with the idea of replacing it with a new one. And the LGBT movement itself is in a developmental crisis.
The IPSN trend will triumph when TV viewers begin to accept censorship of violence and murder as normal, rather than censorship of any kind of sex. Right now, we consider it normal for a family to watch a war movie where the main character kills everyone, but watching erotica with the family is considered immoral . We can't even discuss puberty because of our moral bias, but we can advise our son to fight a bully at school.
Currently, from a propaganda perspective, a soldier in sculpture is primarily a protector, not a killer, while a prostitute is filthy. In a society based on creativity, the opposite should be true: a prostitute should be a priestess of love, dwelling in temples and serving the "gods," associated with all that is good, while a soldier is associated with filth, because he kills. These changes will signal a shift in the state's focus on who can seize more territory, who can create more useful things in a given territory, and whose society will be more comfortable to live in.
How can this be done from a practical point of view? I can offer the following ideas.
Definitely not tearing down the old and building something new in its place, and definitely not churning out brothels and creating rampant promiscuity. They tried that in the early years of Soviet power, and it didn't work out well.
What I suggest:
1. The elite must recognize that our moral principles are flawed: for society, the instinct for destruction is less taboo than the topic of creation. Replace the role of the instinct for destruction in society with the instinct for reproduction. So that the topic of war and fighting is replaced by the topic of sex.
ideas of normality in society through memes . Stop tabooing sex and start tabooing violence, thus replacing one instinct with another and raising a generation of people who reject war and strive to create. Replace the normalization of aggressive behavior with the normalization of sexual behavior. So that in society and between countries, it becomes normal for millions to have sex , not kill. So that from a moral standpoint, it becomes normal for families to watch erotica, not murder.
3. Perhaps, instead of wars, we should start holding sex festivals with huge orgies. Because there's a lack of sport. If tensions arise between countries, then gather disgruntled people somewhere in the forest at the border and force them to have sex , instead of killing millions of innocent people. From a moral standpoint, this is ridiculous and strange, but isn't it even more horrific to kill those same people at the front? And mind you, from a moral standpoint today, it's better to kill a million people at the front than to throw an orgy in a border area with at least 1,000 participants.
4. Stop tabooing words related to sex and start tabooing words related to war, murder and violence.
5. Stop tabooing memes about sex and start tabooing memes about war according to the same principle . Because these memes shape society's perception of good and evil. Why are there icons of Christ being killed on the cross, but not icons of, say, Christ being born? Our morality currently prohibits depicting scenes of birth, but the murder of Christ is worse than his birth. And by the same principle, we need to begin de-tabooing everything in all spheres of life. The main thing is to replace an approach based on the instinct to destroy with an approach based on the instinct to create. The problem is that people will have a hard time even comprehending this now.
6. When acting, we must not demolish, break, or delete anything! This is important, because by prohibiting, we exert a violent influence. We need to act differently. We need to create more memes through healthy competition. based on the idea of creation.
That is, not to destroy memes dedicated to World War II, but to create an equal number or more memes on the theme of creation, thereby overriding the theme of violence with the theme of creation. Example: a monument to millions of post-war marriages and births, listing the names of the children born, or monuments to houses built by German prisoners of war. These sculptures will speak to the same theme, but from the perspective of creation rather than destruction. And so, little by little, over the centuries, by adding new memes , the theme of destruction in society will be overridden by the theme of creation. Memes based on the theme of creation exist today, but such works either constitute a minority of the bulk of memes , play no significant role in the upbringing of generations, do not shape the morality of society, or are taboo.
7. Stop censoring sex-related news in the media and replace it with news about violence in its various forms. After all, everyone would be more interested in learning about the president's child's first love than, say, that he hit someone.
8. Start viewing history not so much in terms of the carrot as the stick. Because territory cannot be seized by brute force, nor can it be held by brute force. There must be some positive aspects, and propaganda and historical myths can be built on these positive aspects.
Moscow craves a thousand-year history, which objectively doesn't exist. But one could try to claim it by interpreting the fact of conquest with the added element that not only, for example, Ivan the Terrible slaughtered all of Novgorod, but also, for example, after the annexation, rapid economic growth began (I'm speaking figuratively), the birth rate increased, and Novgorod wasn't attacked for 100 years. Erect a monument to the absence of wars in Novgorod after Ivan the Terrible and the emergence of a large number of churches. Another example: during World War II, 30 million people died in the USSR, but then , for example, space travel was achieved, and throughout the progressive world, an eight-hour workday became the norm. In other words, in the context of World War II, a monument should be erected to cosmonautics and the eight-hour workweek, not just to the 30 million people killed.
What this might ultimately lead to, for example, is a boxing gym where men visit each other after sparring to heal each other, and no one sees anything strange or bad about it. This is the revolutionary nature of the new social structure and its appeal. How to restructure it and how quickly these changes will occur, I don't know, but as a state ideology, it will work.
9. The state must ensure that memes don't disappear, that themes of sex are disavowed, and that this instinct replaces the instinct of destruction. Anything related to destruction, war, and violence is tabooed, just as sex was previously taboo. Or the state must ensure that the theme of violence in memes remains, and at least that the topic of sex is not taboo . So that the instinct of violence in human morality and actions is supplanted by the instinct of reproduction, so that the instinct of violence in memes is replaced by the instinct of reproduction . And then, over time, memes based on the theme of creation will outnumber memes based on the theme of destruction. Morality will be restructured, and subsequently, the criminal code and human behavior. The essence is for the state to change the morality of society from one that indulges the instinct of destruction to one that indulges the instinct of reproduction.
10. Offering your point of view on the development of society in opposition to the ideas of the LGBT movement.
Currently, legislation and morality in society are based on the thesis that violence is acceptable and sexual issues are unacceptable.
This is evident from film censorship . Nudity and sex scenes are blurred on YouTube , in movies, and in the media , but beatings and murders are not. There are a lot of war -themed memes and fewer sex-themed memes .
Perhaps it is precisely because in our culture memes about murder are less taboo, and memes about sex are more taboo, that the birth rate is falling, but the number of wars is not decreasing.
Before the advent of civilization in Europe, there's no point in writing about this at all, but afterward, in the art of Ancient Greece, it was normal to cultivate the theme of sex everywhere. There were statues of naked women and men, Dionysian festivals, the Olympic Games—everything was fine, but then, with the adoption of Christianity, all this became taboo.
But in defense of Christianity, it's worth noting that human sacrifice also became taboo, but this doesn't change the essence: Christianity began to suppress the reproductive instinct and became involved with people. And it wasn't just Christianity that became involved with people; other religions did the same. Christianity also began to suppress violence within society, but religion lacked the authority, the "reach," to regulate relations between states, and wars continued. And after two millennia, it turned out that religion suppresses sexuality through the established morality. Violence in society has almost disappeared, but wars between states have not disappeared. Memes about wars have appeared, and memes about sex have become fewer .
But if we replace memes about war with memes about sex, we can change morality from "predatory" to "herbivorous," and consequently change laws and people's behavior, and, perhaps, in democratic societies, relations between states.
Nowadays, from a moral standpoint, it's more acceptable for filmmakers to show murder and build the film around it than to build a film around sex. The state legislatively hinders the promotion of films based on sex, but doesn't hinder the promotion of films based on violence. Why is this so, when violence is worse than sex? The state interferes with legislation, but legislation is based on morality and ethics, and morality and ethics are based on Christianity. So the problem is legislation, and legislation can only be changed in a democratic society by changing morality. Morality can only be changed by changing religion, which is unrealistic; it's scholastic , so all that's left is to change the memes * surrounding people. To prevent the destruction of humanity in a nuclear apocalypse over a war over "whose Crimea" or "Palestine" is, religion must be relegated to the background and the LGBT agenda must be promoted. To change society's morality to one that rejects violence and embraces sex. And a democratic society will not approve of wars and nuclear apocalypse.
And that's probably why the progressive part of the Western world is promoting the idea of free sexual relations through LGBT rights. But the world, not yet ready for this revolution, is unable to accept this idea due to its underdevelopment, and is reacting to this innovation with hostility. But just as Napoleon and his army brought the ideas of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity with bourgeois ideals, so the progressive West is now advancing eastward during World War III with LGBT ideas. And we genuinely don't understand what they want from us, so we resist.
But if we begin to promote sex over violence and censor violence more than sex, then perhaps there will be more sex and births, and less violence and murder, including during wars. There will be more people, and these people will be able to populate other planets.
The suppression of the cult of sexuality in society can be seen through the development of sculpture, from ancient Greek to Roman, Middle Ages, early modern times, and modern times. Sculpture as an object became increasingly less sexualized and more militant and clothed. From the sculpture of a naked man to more clothed and more militant sculpture . I believe this change in trend began during the Roman Empire, when sculptures began to be clothed and militarized, and it was also during this time that Christianity first achieved the status of a state religion. Incidentally, Paleolithic Venuses were essentially naked, with clearly defined sexual characteristics.
Violence is hardly taboo in memes , and it's cultivated everywhere from computer games to popular culture, music, cinema, news, toy guns for children, mandatory military service for adults, and the state's ability to start wars and monopolize violence. But why can't the state also take on a monopoly on sex or the right to have children? At least for the sake of equality, as a counterweight.
After the state adopts a monopoly on births, prostitution becomes legal and moral—there's nothing wrong with it if it's organized in a civilized manner. The use of artificial wombs for childbirth and the whole LGBT movement around sex reassignment become regulated. After all, if the state has assumed the right to war and kill, then let it also assume the right to restore the population, and therefore the right to dictate how and with whom sex and childbirth are permitted. Let the state have the right to regulate births. Otherwise, we will die out.
If we restructure society along different lines, perhaps we will eliminate the possibility of war as a function and reach a new level of humanism. That is, the state assumes the right to a monopoly not only on violence but also a monopoly (or gives itself the right to interfere in matters of sex and fertility) on birth.
Both sides are now partly represented: a monopoly on the use of force and a monopoly on interference in marriage. The state only prohibits more than it permits in matters of sex. Basically, the situation is biblical. But if artificial wombs exist, then, for example, why can't gays marry ? Why can't the state ensure the division of property between such a couple?!
The above comment about gays is more of a joke than a joke, but it has some truth to it. A more fundamental question is why can't the state force women to have children when society is dying (birth rates are falling), and when can the state force men to die in war? This is supposed to be the idea of equality between the sexes. How would this truly be a moment of equality ? The constitution should stipulate that if a man is obliged, for example, to serve in the army until he's 30 and possibly die in war, then a woman is also obliged to have a child before he's 30, and at least three children in her lifetime. Then she'll be treated equally with a man who has served or is willing to die for the state. So, feminists, that's a welcome.
Murder should be punished not by a prison term, but by the fact that the perpetrator is engaged in the birth or upbringing of a new person or two. In other words, the upbringing of a new, different person occurs at the murderer's expense. In other words, the murderer, through their labor, covers the costs of the birth and upbringing of a new person. They pay for the birth and life of a new person, not sit in prison using public funds.
That is, all of this follows from changing just one basic setting: there must be censorship in society. Violence memes , not sex and birth memes. We currently censor more sex-related memes and less violence-related ones, when the opposite would be better for society.
Currently, there's a skewed balance in human rights in society. The state can force a man to die, but it can't force a woman to give birth. This isn't equal rights ; women must give birth to maintain the population, or in the post-war period, when some men have died. And, for example, until a woman has had two children by age 27, she won't have equal rights with a man who served in the army.
But let's say a woman doesn't want to give birth and raise a child, then after birth she can give it up to be raised in an orphanage, which increases the need to improve the entire educational sector . Alternatively, a woman can pay for the birth and upbringing of the child by another woman , and the child will be counted as the account of the woman who made the payment. Or a woman can pay for the creation of a child in an artificial womb and give the child up to be raised in an orphanage.
Therefore, the topic of education, this sector, is too important and underfunded , and is in its infancy . We need truly nurturing kindergartens so that parents, if unwilling or unable, don't have to worry about raising their children. This can be done by the state through kindergartens, schools, colleges , and universities. So that having and raising a child isn't a burden. Children should also be given the right to work from age 13.
That is, the state should have the right not only to use violence in the sense of being able to kill, execute, and punish citizens. But the state should also have the right to procreate; the state should have the right to forcibly force a new person into the world. The state should have this right based on the equality of men and women. That is, a man is a protector in society, and the state can send him to die. A woman bears children; that is her function, and the state should, symmetrically, have the ability to force her to bear children if society requires it. That is, such a law should be passed. The state should have this right. And a standard should be introduced, for example, that only men who have served in the army and women who have given birth can vote in elections. That is, the rights of people responsible for the country should be represented on a broader spectrum than the rights of people not responsible for the country. But if a woman serves in the army, she may have the right not to bear children; accordingly, if a man bears and raises children, he may have the right not to die during a war. When artificial womb technology becomes effective, that will be fair. Or a man might not give birth to a child himself , nor raise it himself, but hire others to give birth to and raise his child, all for money. Artificial womb technology will change society profoundly. With its help, a family could consist not only of a woman and a man, but also of people of the same sex.
But the state can't force thousands to die due to overpopulation in peacetime. Therefore, some norms and boundaries are needed to force women to give birth. For example , when the birth rate in a generation of women of a certain age is below the norm, if the state needs new people, then this norm should be applied. For example, if the birth-death rate for a generation of women aged 25-30 is 3.0, and the state doesn't need more people, then forcing women from this generation to give birth is unlawful. But if the birth-death rate for this generation is 1.0, then the state can force this generation of women to give birth. But it's not necessary to force them to serve as incubators and become pregnant; these women could pay for the birth of a child in an artificial womb.
Or if the state sees that in the future it will not be able to feed a certain number of people, then the state can restrict the right to have children for women who give birth with a coefficient of 3.0.
But when, with the emergence of a state monopoly on births, the state gains the right to intervene in matters of birth rate, the need arises to restructure the family model.
We could introduce a norm where a family could be one person who gave birth to a child using an artificial womb and is raising that child. Or, for example, a family could be defined as same-sex people raising several children who aren't theirs. That is, not as an adoptive family, but simply as a family. The important thing is that these people paid for the birth of a child through an artificial womb or surrogacy and are raising that child. In this way, the parents aren't the ones who gave birth, but the ones who raised the child. And we're increasing the birth rate without putting pressure on those who don't want to give birth and raise a child.
In memes, balance the taboos around sex and violence. Or reverse the polarity: make topics of violence taboo, and sex, on the contrary, open.
There's a bias in society regarding the legality of violence and the illegality of sex. These are both instincts that underpin society and that can't be eradicated, and they will always be present in society. But now, the topic of sex is taboo in memes and portrayed as underground, while the topic of violence, which is permitted at all levels, is mainstream . It's true that people have sex and kill each other, but censorship and morality are structured in such a way that if a prostitute masturbates , it's shameful, punishable, and condemned by society. But when a police officer hits someone on the head with a baton and it's shown in the media, it's normal and natural. But in most cases, masturbation causes less harm to someone than a blow to the head with a baton. But our society is structured in such a way that the state allows hitting someone with a baton, but a prostitute cannot legally jerk someone off; she would then go to jail, be condemned by society, or pay a fine.
Perhaps the birth rate problem is rooted in the discrepancy between moral standards and the current level of societal development. Current moral standards are based on Christian ethics, on the commandments that exist within Christianity, and which convey to society a greater taboo against sex than against violence.
At a time when religion was an important structure in society and shaped humanity's moral character, the issue of warfare was somehow not perceived as important or regulated. Warriors weren't condemned in the commandments, and even crusades were organized. It was said that there was no commandment that if you start a war, you'll go to hell. There were norms about not killing , but there were no norms about not starting a war, not showing violence on TV, not making films that portray violence as a positive phenomenon. Therefore, morality has lagged behind the development of society, and something needs to be done about this by introducing a new ideology. Which I have attempted to propose in this article. In the 21st century, we need to reconsider the status quo of violence in society, adjust morality, and begin censoring the topic of violence in memes more than the topic of sex, as the birth rate is declining.
