The New Manufactured Crisis: Pets Destroying The Human Race

Pets: Destroying The Future Of The Human Race?

The new book "What To Expect When No One's Expecting" has made a rather startling claim:

"Today American pets now outnumber American children by more than four to one."

The book's author, Jonathan V. Last, also writes:

"[E]ducated, middle-class people have all but stopped having babies,” he writes. “Pets have become fuzzy, low-maintenance replacements for children."

And here we touch upon a major bugaboo/manufactured "crisis" that has our pop-culture by the balls, from movies like "Idiocracy" to "This Is 40" to any number of (usually white) families-trying-to-survive-disaster flicks and TV shows ("2012," "Knowing," "War Of The Worlds," and the upcoming "World War Z" to name just a few).

I can has more "educated middle-class" babiez pls?

It boils down to "we need to keep the species going." But the message often feels a lot more like "we need to keep the species race going."

It would be pretty unpopular to use the concept of what is essentially  Lebensborn to push a certain book, or agenda. So pets are spotlighted as the culprits -- four-footed non-human parasites mooching on homo-sapiens. In fact, this might be behind all the negative press about cats recently: that they drive (potentially child-bearing) women to suicide, that they are the mass-murderers of other animals, etc.

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Instead of blaming pets for this, as author last puts it, "coming demographic disaster" (which demographic, exactly?), place your gaze at the precarious economic situation in the United States, which makes it really fucking difficult to raise a family in anyway near a proper manner. Blame the greedy banks. Put a magnifying glass on our crappy healthcare system. Take a look at how hard it is to purchase healthy, non-fucked-with food for these theoretical children.

Further: stop blaming Fido and Socks and start pointing fingers where they are long overdue: rigid religious systems who have been essentially forcing oft-incompatible couples to marry for life, producing children so horrified by the abusive, fuckedupness of their families that they are either waiting if and when they are "ready" to have children -- if they aren't scared off of having kids at all.

Sarah Silverman: "I don't want kids"

And rather than denying the absolute fact that in 25 years there are going to be more children "of color" than not in this country, why not invest now in solid educational and medical and nutritional programs to help them grow up strong, informed, and happy?

But this topic is, in the end, not about ethics or "Idiocracies" or too many litter boxes. It's about a lizard-brain primal auto-response to the "threat" of not having one's specific DNA dominate. Dress it up however you like, that's what it really is in the end.

Oh it's this motherfucker's fault again, is it?

And while one is in the throes of this paranoia, feel free to forget that there are other parties "above" all of us -- above those of every hue -- who'd like to see the sum total of all our "expendable," mundane selves reduced by a certain percentage. Or if not "reduced," then simply shoved into crowded and dirty urban hells, apartments stacked like Tetris; kept out of the way of the Beautiful People, prevented from contaminating their pastoral idylls and "national treasures" and consuming the remaining drinkable water and breathable air.

Get out of the lizard-brain mentality and see things for what they are.