William Costello

But yeah, what I mean is that there used to be kind of these macro systems or the fulfillment of having a family would find you whether you wanted it or not kind of thing.

Because it's pretty recent that we've had the emancipatory pill, right?

So that's actually causing two, there are status-driving mechanisms for women wanting status in the workplace and the freedom to not be reliant on a man.

And they're able to kind of

control their fertility and they're running into that time window.

So it's like this idea of, you know, this individualism is almost run rampant that it's like, oh, yeah, whatever you want for your own life.

But if so many people want that, the boss bitch career focused energy, suddenly you've got a macro problem of society is, you know, a fertility crisis because of the individual choices in the market.

So it's almost like before the pill, which was massively emancipatory for sure, you would organically find your way into kind of an equilibrium.

You'd stumble into it.

Whereas now, with complete control over fertility, almost complete control, it means you're kind of the individual choices that might be better in some way for the individual or they might think it's better for themselves as an individual is leading to a massive societal problem.

So it's a, you know.

That's not comforting at all.

So this is not me and any other culture warrior online talking about this fertility crisis and women need to fix it and do their handmaid's tale kind of role.

This is saying, women, by your own desires, this is what you're saying is lacking.

So it's not a crisis that I'm saying I'm unhappy about.

It's even if you only look at women's own desires, they're having fewer children than they want.

I really don't know.

I don't know the way back when especially we're met with such resistance from, oh, you know, is this even a thing?

There are some people who are saying, oh, ridiculous.

It's not even a problem.