Article (free) in The Economist about the doom & gloom over the greying of Europe. One thing that the article points out, at current rates of societal aging, immigration can’t make up the balance and save the pension systems of many European countries. This doesn’t even take into account the dangers of supporting white Christian Old Europeans with brownish Muslim nouveau Europeans. Of course the article does not touch on transhumanism. A 100 year timescale to me is long enough that I suspect that the human race will be in a very different place sociobiologically or our current socioeconomic structure will have collapsed under the burden of its incompatibility with our biological heritage.
The key for Europe seems to be the matter of women-“partial emancipation” in places like Italy means that though women have the right and expectation to work, they are also assumed to be primary care givers for children & adult men. This of course dimishes their inclination to be involved with adult men or children. Perhaps one thing that males have to reflect upon is that legal liberation of women has more subtle consequences than we might realize-the burdens & freedoms that women have taken up have an effect on the other side of the equation, as males must take up some of the burdens that women must let go to enter the public sphere. The only way the equation seems to be balancing right now is that children are being removed out of it.
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