Technology Is Antinatal
Technology itself is antinatal.
Births are dropping below replacement rates in technological societies across the world, West and East, North and South.
Technology is antinatal because it teaches a way of seeing the world.
In this technological world, everything becomes material ready for use. A forest is lumber. A river is electrical power. A worker is capital. A child is a cost, a risk, a lifestyle choice, a demographic input.
The technological mind makes a project of everything it meets. Once the mind is trained this way, it cannot see otherwise. The man begins to make himself a project. He optimizes his health rather than lives moderately, schedules his rest rather than just sleeps, brands his own name rather than builds his trusting with deeds, manages his time rather than following his interests.
A child fits uncomfortably in this technological world. A child cannot easily be produced on a schedule, audited for quality, or recalled for defects. Birth requires waiting, suffering, vulnerability, and the surrender of control. It belongs to the order of gift and inheritance.
The old word for this is mystery. A mystery is a dimension of life that gives itself by remaining partly hidden. Birth is a mystery. Inheritance is a mystery. Sacrifice is a mystery. The technological mind cannot enter these places.
Technology only needs to make children appear irrational. The numbers are run, and the child fails the calculation. The man who runs that calculation does not know he is missing anything.
Technological man must make children into projects in order to make children at all. He will optimize the child-project. End the waiting, the suffering, end the mystery.
Technological man will devise a way to audit children for quality, design them like robots, and discard the defective ones. That is the only way modern men can become natal again, because that is that only way they can see the world.