“If your dog did a trick for a treat, he’s not trained, he’s bribed.”
How do you engineer trust? You don’t. You cultivate it – in toddlers – and if you don’t cultivate it, you can’t have it. Bitcoin is underfathered money.
Jokes are easy. Comity is hard. How do you cultivate Ds trust in a Ci technocracy?
Fatherhood, of course, but that implies two things: Couples have to cooperate rather than competing in marriage. And moms have to put their child-bearing years ahead of their career-triumph years.
Sending your daughter away to college at 18 is the best possible way to avoid grandchildren. Had she married at 18, she might have brought home five apples of their daddy’s eye. Instead, she’ll be lucky to spawn two crabapples – or one – or none – daddy or not.
But if we schedule things the other way, kids first, then school and career, families can have the ‘having it all’ that takes 50 and 100 years to have.
He marries when he’s established – five years older, not ten – she marries when she is most-propitiously fecund. She studies from home as she can, as the kids are growing, and she’s only 30 or 35 when she is able to make a full-time commitment to her career – if that still seems wise.
But it is certainly wise to get the sequence of these priorities in order. The way to put families first is to put your own family – however it might be composed – ahead of any value outside the home. And, as above, if you want trust, this is the only way it comes into existence.
In other news:
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CNBC: Here’s how the Fed decision impacts your wallet.
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Fox News: Americans move to freedom – people fleeing these 5 states. Here’s why.
Joel Kotkin: How Declining Fertility Rates May Deliver Us Into Oblivion.
Joy Pullman: Report: Americans’ Obsession With Careers Is Contributing To Our Dangerous Lack Of Babies.
City Journal: Progressives against Civil Rights.
American Greatness: Until Lambs Become Lions.
Christopher Rufo: Subversive Education: North Carolina’s largest school district launches a campaign against “whiteness in educational spaces.”
American Greatness: Cancel Public School: If we took the future of the nation seriously, we would end public schools tomorrow.
