James Sexton

Yeah, but you're not economically rich.

Like whatever metric, you're failing at some other metric because that's how it works.

So I think that is the broader problem and it's wildly antagonistic to marriage.

I think that's...

Take that I have that is potentially controversial because it's tied to gender stuff My other big thing is I don't think that people's children should be their highest accomplishment.

I think we've created a culture where Everybody's like my proudest accomplishment is my kids.

That seems very strange to me and actually quite sick because Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a virus or a cancer cell like it let's play this theory out if

the most important thing I'll ever do is have children.

What's the most important thing my children will ever do?

Have children?

Like, okay, and the most important thing their children will do to be have children.

So, okay, so the highest calling is to reproduce and reproduction is the goal in and of itself.

Like it's the highest thing is to fulfill the biological imperative, to take this half formed thing that comes out of a woman

like that you better hope whatever meets you on the other side is gonna help because we're helpless when we're born.

So we're gonna take this half-formed thing, we're gonna turn it into something that's self-sustaining and that fulfills the biological and can reproduce itself.

Great, okay, so that's it, that's the goal?

That's why we're here?

That's the whole thing?

Like, that's crazy to me.

So then why have we structured it that if you say anything other than, well, the day my children were born was the greatest day, my children are my greatest accomplishment, that that,