The document discusses how ideas can spread and reduce birth rates. It argues that ideas like feminism and progressivism reduce birth rates by decreasing the number of offspring that survive to adulthood to reproduce themselves. As a result, these ideas spread like a virus by infecting other hosts but reduce the fitness of their host. The document claims that the spread of progressivism in the West and declining birth rates are not a coincidence, as rapid spread is required for catastrophic effects on birth rates. It concludes that Western values cannot survive long-term with below replacement birth rates.

1. “…ideas, like most things in this world, are heritable. Both genetics and culture mean that parents in
general pass their values on to their children. Take away the children, and you take away the people
likely to hold the idea tomorrow.
Of course, people are apt to forget this, because it's a slow-moving effect. The faster way ideas spread
is through communication across a given population.
Where things get complicated, however, is if the idea itself reduces birthrates directly. This is
especially true for ideas like feminism or progressivism in general. In this sense, they are parasitic and
pathological. I mean this as a metaphor, but only in the barest biological sense. They reduce the
reproductive fitness of their host, simply by reducing the number of offspring it has that survive to
adulthood to themselves reproduce. As a consequence, these ideas are like a deadly virus that can
only survive by spreading and infecting other hosts. Is reducing the reproductive fitness of your host
not the very essence of parasitism?
Ideas that increase procreation are symbiotic in that sense - the idea spreads by increasing the fitness
of its host. But as in nature, parasites and diseases can spread and survive, although there is a
tradeoff between the mortality rate and the transmission rate. The faster you kill off the host, the faster
the disease must also spread, or it kills off itself with the host. In this sense, the fact that progressivism
has spread throughout the west with increasing speed, and the fact that it is catastrophic for birth
rates, are not a coincidence. The former is a requirement for the latter.
It is an unassailable fact that the ideas, beliefs and circumstances of the modern west are
extraordinarily pathological in terms of birth rates.
But no matter where exactly it is coming from, the west simply cannot survive long term in its present
form. And this is a purely mathematical prediction, not a sociological one. Any set of values that
creates below replacement birth rates is pathological, and is actively being bred out.”
From “On the Pathology of Low Birthrates”
Source: https://shylockholmes.blogspot.ro/2017/05/on-pathology-of-low-birthrates.html