The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Last year’s slowdown marks an official end to the uptick in new babies that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. At least 3,591,328 babies were born in the U.S. in 2023, down 2% from the 3,667,758 born in 2022.
Good. Less strain on the environment, more homes available, upward pressure on wages.
You say that, until the workhorse generation, paying for themselves, their parents and their kids…everything…says fuck all that and then you get revolutions and society collapses. We’re almost at that point now.
Capitalism can’t adapt. Either capitalism gives way to socialism or cé la vie.
I only hope to be around so I can roast some marshmallows off the fires at the capital buildings.
It’ll be nice to have meat again. And presumably living debt free.
I already don’t have access to medicine - well not without sacrificing a decade of what pittance of my productivity is left to me after the kleptocracy is thru - so today I have the same as them, as many years as I was born with, luck providing.
Media and horror flicks tell us that humanity is what we need to fear if it all goes away, but I’ve been in natural disaster, people come together in crisis. You’re, we all are, more afraid of being alone than meeting a stranger, and at least in the context of a survival scenario I think we can all admit that to ourselves. We would all use the last of our hunting ammo to defend a friend. More minds, more eyes = more opportunities, less risk. I’m not afraid of social collapse, I’m currently more afraid of the society dancing on the precipice as if it has plot armor.
In case i wasnt clear enough i was quoting a book/movie character, Tyler Durden. I’m not that poetic.
Unless you already knew that
Palahniuk is one of the few authors I like. I rarely make time for fiction anymore, sadly.
The film of Fight Club Brad Pitt def earned my respect for what he brought to Durden, how MUCH he brought. The onscreen character was like 90% Brad Pitts creation, and he fuckin nailed it.
I like the movie ending better for the movie and the book ending better for print, oddly enough. Capping it off with the Pixies got me to stand and clap in the theatre, (the matrix did the same with RaTM, my🥇) but i had been a huge Pixies fan since the early 90s, so it was cool for them to get some exposure…even tho it was the 90s, I never susbscribed to the GenX sellout/underground cool spiel, I had listened to Sublime and the Offspring for years before they both took over the radio, I was happy for em. Get paid for your art. thats my little millennial dream …
I agree. The part on the bus in the end of the book just wouldn’t have the same punch in film