Retrogrades should consider this the “biological solution” to widespread political and moral problems: radicals are constitutionally sterile and can easily be beaten demographically by the provision of an abundant new retrograde generation in fifteen or twenty years. Simply put, we outbreed the radicals.
Today’s ubiquity of sterility-promoting, radical Boomer-isms embodies the moral decadence presently popular in society. The preponderance of today’s culture-of-death, wait-until-your-thirties philosophy regarding “family planning” has yielded small, materialistic families with manufactured, unnatural expectations regarding the amount of wealth required to “begin a family.” The radical worldview has brainwashed virtually all of society that each and every responsibly birthed newborn requires his own pre-appointed bedroom, cellular data plan, college fund, and career path; without these already in place before baby’s arrival, radical Boomer-isms instruct us, mother and father are just “breeding like rabbits.”
On the contrary, parents of large families well understand that kids love sharing bedrooms; smart phone ownership and “screen time” destroy kids’ imaginations and attention spans; college and career should be mapped not in infancy or elementary school but rather according to the established merits of middle and high school students. In other words, a man’s career and wealth can afford to mature gradually, as his family does. Poverty (not to be confused with destitution) and thrifty living is good for a love-struck married couple fresh out of high school or college. There is plenty of time for their bank account to develop organically as their family grows: a single newborn baby or two proves remarkably cheap to care for.
The radicals, of course, are up against the facts of nature. The likelihood of infertility has almost tripled18 if a couple waits to conceive until thirty years of age (compared against the same couple’s rate at twenty years of age). Science does not lie. The human body’s peak fertility occurs at twenty years old for a biological reason—bear in mind, this is the average age of a college sophomore. If only humanity were to return to non-manufactured, non-contrived, natural family planning by heeding the anatomical-physiological science on this matter, then young men and women would certainly rise to the occasion.
Imagine how different a culture of twenty-year-old first-time parents would look from a culture of thirty-year-old first-timers! Such widespread cultural expectations would be prospective in the sense that teens would customarily make radically different choices in anticipation of “real adulthood” beginning a decade prior to its present, presumed starting point. Arrested development, with its “perpetual teenage-hood,” would be stopped in its tracks. Retrogrades have been mostly blind to the fact that an aggressive approach to the “bio solution” is a guaranteed path to eventual victory over the radicals.
Apart from the opportune statecraft implied by the retrograde “bio solution,” the benefits which accrue to the young marrieds are plenary. When the sacrament of marriage is practiced properly and timely, men avoid the near-certain fate of becoming offbeat, self-obsessed, and lecherous (which awaits perpetually single men as an eventuality); women avoid the terminus of extended female “singlehood,” growing shrill, insecure, and officious as they age without a spouse. Women who wed young, virtuous men customarily avoid these vicious qualities of resentment, since they are not habitually looking down their noses upon perverted, morally base husbands, who formed lecherous habits in the twenties and thirties.
Conversely, when a couple marries young, the man and the woman grow up in the virtues together in the adventurous milieu of the benign financial poverty of youth. Fresh on their new journey, the young couple will form good lifelong habits together. Salutary marital habits of teamwork and “specialized labor” were designed by human biology and the human lifespan to be inculcated in the late teens or early twenties rather than in the late twenties or early thirties (by which time bad habits have already solidified). A fruit must be picked when it is ripe, not long before or after: human beings simply aren’t open to begin marital teamwork when they get too old. After all, the law of opportunity cost dictates that couples who wait until the thirties to marry may only have so many kids—even if they envision having large families. Having a truly large family mandates an early start.
An early start, in turn, mandates purposeful courtship. To initiate courtship, young men should clearly, plainly, directly ask young women for one-on-one dates. The request should be clear, specifically romantic in orientation, and plainly committal. Dinner and a wholesome activity should be expressed as on offer. For their part, young women should clearly, plainly, and directly accept the invitation by young men they are interested in. Just as the offer should be unconditional, so should the young woman’s acceptance be: young women should not request a “group hang out,” a “pre-date” coffee or lunch, or any condition precedent to the date. These all constitute breaches of nature. (Like matrimony, the first date necessarily involves two and only two people, some calculated risk, unmitigated mutual interest, and mutual commitment.) If any of these mitigators appear necessary to the young woman, she should simply and politely decline the young man’s invitation.
Courtship should last only as long—no longer—as the man reasonably requires in order to discern his compatibility with the woman, and then to tender to her a timely marriage proposal. Such a period of discernment should occupy a varying span of months in duration, not years. As with the first date, the young woman should not condition her proposal-acceptance or -denial. All her relatives (presumably influenced by Boomer-isms) will certainly admonish her that she hasn’t known him long enough; as noted above, culture-of-death Boomer-isms now advise youth to date for the greater part of a decade! If, accordingly, she feels inclined to request more time, she should simply and graciously reject his proposal.
If this rule is followed meticulously, Western dating and marriage will begin to make sense again. A return to classical courtship and prompt marriage will restore the Christian dignity of intersex relations. More importantly still, it will restore sanity to the home and the state.
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18 https://www.babycenter.com/0_chart-the-effect-of-age-on-fertility_6155.bc.