As a spin off of my writing about the racialists, I’ve been looking into the so-called “manosphere”. Longer post about that later. For the moment, I’d like to talk about this post and its implications. Specifically, what the writer writes about Japan.
(If you’re going to complain about my linking this piece, please read my free speech primer first, about why you should carefully read everything, and then my post about How to Argue like Stalin and why you shouldn’t).
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I’ll summarize: Japan is in a demographic crisis. So is the rest of the developed world. However, Japan has had effectively zero immigration, due to the fact that it still maintains a strong national and ethnic identity. This brings the demographic crisis into sharp focus. There are more adult diapers sold than baby diapers, for example. As everyone knows, you cannot support a society where there are more old fogies than young breadwinners.
What’s causing this problem? It is partly that young japanese men have just plain given up on women:
In Japan, you have the phenomenon of the herbivore, the sōshoku-kei. This is a whole class of Japanese men who shun marriage and even girlfriends in favor of an austere lifestyle that includes indulgence in personal hygiene products, like the American Metrosexual. Only the herbivore takes the idea to the extreme . . . and has absolutely no desire for any kind of romantic commitment whatsoever
These chaps have decided to give up on real women in favour of porn, virtual girlfriends, and sexbots of various degrees of sophistication.
I’m not kidding about virtual girlfriends here. There’s a rather good documentary – “No Sex Please, We’re Japanese” – that includes a couple of thirty something guys who have virtual girlfriends in electronic toys whom they take to the beach to take pictures with and so on. Watch it if you can.
The Japanese government is going to ever greater lengths, offering greater incentives for young families – tax breaks, subsidies, the works. To a certain extent, the entire developed world is looking at these proposals, but Japan is taking it to the next level, because it has to. So, what is the level beyond the next? Discussing this with a chum of mine, we came up with the term Going Full Tleilaxu.
The Bene Telilaxu are a society from Frank Herbert’s Dune universe. They are a society of extremely sophisticated biologists and genetic engineers, who are also fanatically religious. All reproduction happens through cloning via the Axolotl tanks. Where Herbert’s vision departs from the usual is in what these tanks are. The Tleilaxu don’t bother to try and recreate the human womb; they simply modify human women into giagantic, lobotomized baby-making factories.
I’m not suggesting that Japan is going to go that far. But sooner or later it is going to have to occur to someone in government: if the major problem is a lack of babies, and the only people capable of producing babies are young women, why not pay them to do so? Most western feminists will regard this as little better than the Axolotl tank scenario, and the implication is that no woman would ever go for it, but I wouldn’t be too sure.
Think of a situation where such a deal is on offer, that you can sign up to be a ‘mother for the state’ or perhaps ‘of the state’, where you can get free housing, a decent wage, but the price is that you drop out of the economy and commit to having a certain number of babies (probably between five to eight). If there’s a guy you like, he can be part of the scenario, though he’d be working, or we can try and set you up with someone (Japan does maintain the practice of arranged marriages, omiai).
Would no one go for such a deal? There’s plenty of women in the west who would; think of it as follows: on the one hand you can have a career where you have to bust yourself eight to six every day, can be yelled at if it’s not done yesterday, or fired or dropped for things that aren’t within your control, and you’ll have little time to spend with your kids on the off chance you actually have any – or on the other hand, you have a job where you work from home, set your own hours, get to spend all day with your children and be directly involved in how they grow up – and so have a huge impact on your society’s future? That, remember is a comparison with Western norms. Try to imagine what it’s like in the land where people work themselves to death so often that life insurance companies actually account for it.
Completely implausible?
For that matter, what about separating bearing and raising? Much of Japan’s ageing population is lonely and sad at not having any grandkids. There are such things as dolls for older people, made to very carefully imitate the grandkids they will never have, and cat cafes, where sad old people pay good money just to pet cats, as an outlet for their family feelings. Is it impossible to imagine a 60-something couple accepting cash in exchange for raising a couple of babies that were born by surrogacy?
This is all plausible with current levels of technology. But just extrapolate out a bit – Japan is at the forefront of developing artificial wombs. At the moment they can only keep a goat foetus alive for three weeks, but just remember how quickly we’ve gone genome sequencing being a huge, year long project, to a completely routine procedure.
These kids would quickly make up a majority of the society. There’s a Christian movement, Quiverfull, that argues that the United States could be returned to Christian protestant dominance within three generations if only Quiverfull’s members had five to eight children each.
This sort of a thing could happen only if the state was willing to take a far more active role, and more: if there was an overriding ideological reason for this to happen. Well, there is. The trend is towards more nationalism in Japan, with the current PM reportedly wanting to see a return to the days when the Emperor was seen as a god.
A picture emerges of Japan, circa 2050: a significant chunk, if not a majority, of the population beginning as state-sponsored children of one kind or another. With mounting economic demands to support these kids, there will be still more ‘herbivorous’ young men, kept docile and working with liberal supplies of sexbots and other toys, paired off with an increasingly bitter female workforce that resents the class of professional mothers and child raisers. Older people cared for by advanced robots. At the apex, the children of those ultra-alphas that have formed their own families and have established themselves. It’s easy to imagine having a family going from something usual to a kind of status symbol: “I’m wealthy enough and powerful enough to have my wife at home taking care of the kids, I’m continuing my own dynasty.”
If you really want to get unnerved, just try and apply these same ideas to China. Think how many Chinese women would jump at the aforementioned opportunity, rather than slaving away in a Chinese factory with the wonderful health and safety and unionization conditions. The Chinese autocracy can be guaranteed to have even fewer scruples about putting this sort of thing into play when they realize that their one child policy has been a complete disaster.
This will be patriarchy on steroids. The people who are really going to get it in the shorts – as it were – are the Japanese women who remain in the workforce. They’ll be as ‘free’ as the men – free to work twelve hour days, free to pay taxes to support some other woman’s kids, free to end their lives in loneliness. As each new generation of girls sees that fate in store for the average Japanese woman, the prospect of being an eight baby mummy will seem much, much more attractive in comparison.
It’s probably inevitable that eugenics will make a big comeback. In the early stages, it’ll be a sellers market. Any woman willing to take the deal will be able to set her own terms – at first. When more and more opt for this deal, the government will be in a position to select for fertility and other qualities – and this is even before we consider artificial insemination. Just consider being able to screen out all known disease alleles, and select for qualities such as longevity and health.
That’s all a shadow of what’ll happen once the real cloning vats are up and running. When that happens, eugenics will be completely inevitable. There will be exactly zero incentive not to select for tougher, more long lived, more intelligent specimens. Why not build in disease resistance genes to cut down on healthcare costs? How about some bacterial genes to break up the intracellular gunk so these kids can work another thirty healthy years?
This is one reason I keep telling the white supremacists: You’re not just wrong, you’re obsolete. While you spend all day long trying to torture data into proving your genetic superiority, others are working hard to establish theirs.
So, yes. Turn east, and see the Tleilaxan Dawn.
