TIM BARRUS: NEW YORK TIMES: STOP HAVING CHILDREN
The King has just killed my grandchildren.
There is no way that having children is compelled by innate desire. The mommies are simply wrong.
I have pleaded with my children not to have more children of their own. They get it. They understand. They’re not stupid. They have decided that having children would be irresponsible in the extreme even as extremes, are shoved down our throats like poison from a coal mine. Meanwhile, climate change and human diaspora will increase unabated.
The King has spoken. Death by poison and and authoritarianism for all but him. We as humans would die anyway. The issue is always speed.
The King sits on his throne and laughs. We are all powerless. Own it.
We did it to ourselves. We did to the other species.
We have done it to the earth.
I remain convinced that most civilizations, or organized activity performed by living organisms, not unlike bacteria, multiply until there is no room. I am thinking other planets on other star systems. There is a point at which life can go no further in complex development even as the universe flies apart further and further into what we refer to as space.
The decision not to have children saves them from a lifetime of agony the King has imposed upon the future of our species. I may be powerless, I may have taken the wrong path in having children myself, optimism is actually defeat, but I can deny the King my grandchildren, and I have. Let us see him tweet about that.
The Iron Throne will melt.