– Humanity has problems with fertility not the first time. Even in ancient times this happened – they fought it, but it did not work. The Roman Emperor Augustus, erstwhile he saw fertility decline, limited the rights of unmarried men to prompt them to search out their wives and to have children. He told them not to go to the Colosseum. The French built their power erstwhile they were de facto half the population of Europe. As their numbers began to decline, they lost their power status, which sealed planet War I and planet War II. They were aware that a low kid would do this, but they could not lift it. We don't have a good way to do this present either. Robin Hanson, prof. of Economics at George Mason University and erstwhile investigator at the Oxford University Institute of the Future of Humanity, says in an interview with Sebastian Stodolak.
In an interview with Hanson Sebastian Stodolak pointed out that there are many theories about why fertility falls. – Do you have your own? “The writer asked. In response, the interviewer said that the reason for this is that “we have all corrupted the machinery of culture”.
– Human cultures specify how we behave: how we treat household and children, work, neighbors, war, gods, etc. They give us standards and values. Where do cultures come from? fundamentally with random variation and selection. It's just a natural selection, pure random variation. Even a fewer centuries ago, the planet was full of hundreds of thousands of tiny peasant cultures, each of which had 1 –2,000 representatives. due to the fact that these cultures were small, they had a tiny level of interior innovation. They could not spread, were incompatible with others, did not interact with them, etc. But there was a strong selection. If culture was weak, it would vanish under force of hunger, epidemics, wars. It was easy to destruct most of these cultures. At the same time, however, as a consequence of the same selection pressure, these cultures had an incentive to effort to behave differently than neighbors who had endurance problems. In a word: adaptation followed. These small cultures that did the best were getting bigger. Finally, the 1 who is doing well won– at least against the background of ancestors – with hunger, wars, epidemics said the scientist.
Hanson besides pointed out that intensive parenting contributes to reducing fertility. – Parents are expected to pay more attention to each descendant, and that makes it harder to have more children, right? Secondly, we anticipate people to have a comprehensive education. Without him, you'll make worse money and have lower social status. Education is especially crucial to women today. As a result, the decision about children is postponed. Another thing is the belief that the first thing to do is to stabilize financially before a household is established. Even decades ago, marriages were concluded before young people developed their career paths and erstwhile they did not truly know what they wanted. another factors affecting the declining number of children include the decline of religion, as well as the encounter of cultures as part of globalisation, leading to dominance of behaviour patterns from childless cultures. There is besides sex equality... I am not saying that sex equality is morally incorrect or that women should not study. I point to the multidimensionality of the mechanisms governing man and his civilization. On the another hand, I think we should admit that in a sense the Conservatives were right. We were changing culture besides quickly, not knowing precisely what we were doing. But possibly this must have been the case, and there is simply a kind of civilisational cyclicality: from improvement to decadence, erstwhile we halt being curious in the question of fertility, and we like to focus on ourselves, our own comfort, self-expression. It is possible that in the improvement of culture specified a breakdown mechanics is inscribed and it is not straight the responsibility of any single individual or single trend – summed up Sebastian Stodolak.
Source: Magazine diary of Legal Newspaper
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