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I’m sure that’s part of it. This is part of why I think it is significant that so many women spend their young adulthood essentially sterilized.
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In many ways I view modernity as a struggle against biology - the human will unwilling to accept physical limitations
We'll see which prevails
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I see it as an iterative process of making lifestyle changes that improve some aspect of life and then gradually learning what the tradeoffs of that choice were.
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Before there was so much nonsense about women easily having children in their 40's and 50's, the trade-offs were much more apparent.
Now women have to discover it the hard way, by themselves.
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Yeah, it’s one of the most common tragedies of modern times.
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A big part of this might be that women are often STARTING to try to conceive after the age of 26 or 27. Peak fertility years start around age 18 or 19 for women.
Fertility starts declining MUCH sooner than most people think (but, they think this because that's what the propaganda is).