15 October

Kidult culture despises children. It’s why it doesn’t have any, because they get in the way of lifestyles. Of ‘living your best life’. Lifestyles make them unaffordable. It seems paradoxical only if you think kidult = kid. But kidult = adolescent. Teen. The culture of the “I”. Only societies with a collective focus, a “we” culture, have children. Adult societies. (The red line is a mapping of the research of Putnam, the US historian, who looked at the shift between "I" and "We" cultures over time. The overlap with the fertility rate is exact.)