I’ve got leftist acquaintances who chuckle derisively every year about the “War On Christmas”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I meet them halfway. The war isn’t just <\/em>on Christmas, of course; it’s on everything that builds a stable, functional society <\/p>\n\n\n\n Especially families. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The “hild-free”\/movement is one of modernity’s more galling little affectations. Not so much the people who just decide they don’t want to have kids – although I have questions – much less the ones that can’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n No, I’m talking about the ones that take affirmative pride at disdaining all thing child: having them, putting up with them in public, making any allowances for them or their parents in any way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s not just their dubious social skills; to be intentionally “child-free” is to say “when I’m too old to take care of myself – financially, socially and literally – I’m going to give the job to your <\/em>kids and grandkids”. The burden in insurance premiums, social overhead and literal time (CNAs don’t grow on trees) will come from the children and grandchildren of the people they’re condescending to today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, like every other harebrained notion, they’ve got their carefully-curated “Facts” – which in this case Jordan Peterson was good enough to flense for us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Answer #5 in particular grabbed me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n