The “Brave New World” Becomes the Cowardly New World
Plummeting birth rates in the developed world and why the causes might be hushed up
By
David Gottfried
“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but with a whimper”
T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
In my last post, I started my series of essays devoted to new arguments explaining why immigration to the United States should be reduced. (These arguments diverge from the tired right-wing arguments you may be familiar with) I will continue with this series, but I am compelled to interrupt that discussion with today’s post on declining births. In today’s New York Times (May 23, 2021), there is a frightening article which chronicles the enormous contractions in population in the developed world and notes that these contractions are due to get much more severe. In Italy, maternity hospitals have shut down. Kindergartens have become facilities for old folks.
This article brought to mind problems that most of us would sooner forget:
In the 60’s, experts told us that there was a population explosion that was so severe that soon we would all starve to death. Similarly, in the 1970’s a national magazine -- it was either Time or Newsweek -- published an issue whose front cover loudly proclaimed that we are on the verge of a new ice age. Now, of course, the certified geniuses of the academy are certain that we will all broil because of rising temperatures.
I am a great believer in science. However, most of the morons who write for news organizations only studied the liberal farts (I’m sorry, I meant to say liberal arts) and don’t know what science is. (New York once suffered a man named Dr. Frank Fields who discussed “science” for NBC television news. NBC had succeeded in convincing the great majority of television-viewing morons that Dr. Fields was an esteemed and wise doctor of something or other. One day, his cover was blown. While the TV screen showed film footage of a man getting an ordinary blood test, Dr. Fields commented that the needle was being inserted in the patient’s artery, when of course it was being inserted into the vein. Hell, any junkie in a NYC gutter could have told you the needle was going into the vein.)
I wrote an article on substack –maybe 10 people read it – which explained why experts have such a desultory record of deciphering what is true and false in their field. That their record is poor should be clear: 1) The mid 19th century surgeons of Paris killed most of their patients because they were resolute in denying Pasteur’s germ theory of disease; 2) Mid 20 th century psychiatrists were certain that homosexuality was always pathology and could always be “cured,” and most of their patients got worse; 3) the architects of the War in Vietnam gave us cheery pronouncements, that the war would soon be won, for about two decades; 4) From the time of Ptolemy to the tyranny of the Papal Courts, “scientists” told us that the son revolved around the earth.
Experts often get things wrong because they spend years going to school to learn the dogma of their profession, their income and prestige is based on their fealty to their profession and its cannon of dreary dogma, and if they are receptive to research or discoveries which might challenge the veracity of their dogma, they might implicitly admit that their work is a fraud and that they are not entitled to their income and status. Accordingly, the thinking of experts suffers from a sort of ideational sclerosis which makes them afraid to learn anything knew.
Although experts often get it wrong, I think that the report in today’s Times is probably right on the money and that world population is beginning to plummet. The news report was not based on the arrogant comments of certified geniuses from Harvard or abstract conceptions based on hard to prove suppositions. The news report was based on an abundance of concrete data of births and deaths.
As I said, I am a great believer in science. The midget minds of the pseudo intellectual press – such as that middle brow abomination known as the New York Times – think that following the scientific method consists of submissive and automatic acceptance of whatever a stuffed shirt in Harvard says is true. Science however is a relentless examination of “reality” to determine what is and is not true.
Of course, it is very hard to determine what is true, especially in America in these identity politics days, because our eyesight is compromised by blinders that don’t let us see anything too far to the left or too far to the right. We Americans have become a big dumb horse, and we are being ridden in the politically correct direction, and if they want us to go in a wholly erroneous direction, they will be like Rhet Butler, in “Gone with the Wind,” who put a black cloth over a horse’s head so it would gallop in the direction of his choosing notwithstanding the terrible direction he had chosen. (I suppose this cinematic allusion merits the denunciation of half a dozen witches from the Ivy League who will decry my reference to a racist and sexist movie)
Since the commissars of political correctness don’t want us to know certain things, the New York Times article was silent about what may very well be one of the greatest causes of our plummeting population: Estrogen Poisoning.
a) Birth control pills contain estrogen and compounds which are derived from estrogen.
b) Millions of Women take these pills. Of course, the medicine does not stay within the women’s bodies. The estrogen passes through the urine and enters our streams and rivers and lakes.
c) And what are the effects of the massive estrogenic envelopment of the earth:
i) Various forms of male fish in the Great Lakes have suffered the atrophy of male organs and are now sterile
ii) Male hormone levels in the United States have been declining
iii) There is a marked variation in male hormone levels in different parts of the US, e.g., Testosterone levels are 25 percent higher in NY than Los Angeles. This buttresses the argument that environmental changes are wreaking endocrinological havoc and suggests that whatever is screwing with male potency is more ominous on the West coast. Of course, Rock n Rollers like myself may believe that New York always had more cojones that LA. Consider these lyrics from “When the Whip Comes Down,” a 1978 song by the Rolling Stones, my all time favorite band: “I’ll be gay in New York, I was a fag in LA.”
iv) male sperm counts have been declining
v) birth defects of male genitals are increasing, particularly an aberration in which the slit, through which urine, and later sperm, is emitted is not situated at the head of the penis but rather at the side of the penis or the base of the penis
vi) gynecomastia, or male breasts, are skyrocketing in prevalence
vii) transgenderism is increasing
Some scientists were researching this issue. Not long ago, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York was on top of this issue. To my knowledge, Mount Sinai stopped its work on researching the impact on estrogen poisoning. Now, Mount Sinai is in the forefront of gender mutilation surgery, also known as sex reassignment surgery. I wonder: Did the Commissars of political correctness pay a call on the big shots at Mount Sinai and give them an order they couldn’t refuse.
I had a very dear Friend who died of AIDS in the autumn of 1994. He told me, in the winter of his short life, that he wasn’t entirely miserable about dying because the world that he had loved was dying. The New York of Nathan’s franks -- of laughter, of affordable rent-controlled apartments, of smoking doobies in the summer nights, of drinking beer while sitting on the stoop, of being able to be a respectable person on a teacher’s salary -- was being extinguished.
Now Huxley’s Brave New World is becoming ever more starkly the cowardly new world. A new world of men who are eunuchs who don’t reproduce. A world of brilliant, single women who make love to their cats. Of civilizations dying. Of many old people and no young people to move the wheelchairs. A world where there are no Jewish children at Passover seders to ask the four questions. A world where churches won’t host first communions. A world without fairy tales and the sweet squeals of little children. A world where we won’t live happily ever after.