Gen Z and the wokesters demand art that perfectly conforms to their beliefs and naïve intuitions about how the world should work. But good art is supposed to change you. If you don’t walk out of a cinema or a museum or a play or a symphony feeling like at least somewhat of a different person with an altered set of possibilities arrayed before you, that art has failed.

Instead of being changed by art, Gen Z and the woke crowd demand that art be a mirror that shows only their own reflection.

That is not what art is for.

Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once.

In country after country the birth rate plunged after the introduction of smartphones, no matter what the previous trend was. The younger the age group, the more pronounced the downturn — a mirror image of smartphone usage patterns.

Told you it with the fucking phones, you fucking idiots.

This is mostly wrong and bad advice. Though there is very little actual advice here.

The thing is, incels are substantially correct about their — and most men’s — disadvantages in the dating market. The majority of women really do attempt to date the top 10% of men nearly-exclusively, and unhappily settle for less when they turn out not to be at that tier themselves. Men really do risk life-altering consequences for making even a polite approach. I could go on. But suffice it to say, incels diagnose their own and society’s problems fairly accurately. Also, Noah’s data in his piece is very misleading, and designed to be so. Some of it just plain wrong.

We’ll ignore that for now. However, along with the incels being correct about their problems their noxious beliefs about what they should do in response follow. And those are farcically bad. Their suggested remedies will not help them, society, or anyone. It will only further embitter them and cause yet more ostracism.

Another impediment to proceptivity is the fear of rejection. In American culture, men are expected to take the lead romantically, and this means they’ll often end up getting rejected. A lot of guys are so scared of this rejection that they dread even trying to date in the first place.

The risk of nuclear rejection now is too high. Many women go ape on you just for asking them out these days. No guy wants their entire life destroyed because they asked some overentitled prick of a woman out for coffee and she ruins their life. And that is a real risk now.

Noah’s “advice” is non-advice, like nearly all such monitions from those who are reasonably successful romantically. What paltry guidance there is, it will not aid you, and will only cause more women to disdain you. Avoid this nonsense. It’s no better than dating advice from a woman, which is always useless for men.

Too many women are like, “OMG men find attractive women attractive and that should be banned (unless it’s me)!”

Like, do you even hear yourself? Of course not. People with any self-awareness and a clue about life don’t act like a loser prat.

I’m all for more almonds and more datacenters. Both are good. We need abundance everywhere.

Fuck degrowthers. May they all die drowning in patchouli.