Posted by
JP on Monday, June 30, 2008 9:32:26 AM
by John Mark Reynolds [author,
academic]
Will we be able to sustain our population and our institutions?
We
do know that the Nordic countries and other parts of Europe are engaged
in a social experiment in whether marriage can fade away and culture
survive. So far the experiment appears promising, but the returns are
superficial. European countries have not needed to defend themselves
against an aggressive adversary in decades.
The
numeric tipping point (when traditional Jewish and Christian ideas were
largely rejected about marriage) did not come until a few decades ago.
None
of these regions have had to spend the money to defend themselves,
because the United States has done it for them. Those days are coming
to an end. What if Sweden faces an aggressive and nuclear Russia? What
if Iceland no longer can rely on the United States to protect the sea
lanes? [more]