Lots of countries have one or more official languages. What's different is the purpose. Most sane countries define one to facilitate clear communication and transactions. China's forcing this to extinguish a culture.
Also "deranged white thought" is a pretty racist take when the flag bearing "white guy" countries of the United States and the UK both do not have an official language while most of the rest of the world generally does.
You raise another good point. Some people are simply not cut out for raising kids. Or interacting with normal people, for that matter.
I think you read my comment backwards. I guess to follow your analogy, social media is "soma" and is a problem today.
You're correct that my comment was not inclusive. That was not intentional on my part and I'm sorry if I offended anyone. However, this is a distraction from the main point.
It was not a strawman. I was making a statement about how society is right now, not how it should be. "men can be house spouses", etc is true but until we have better workplace equality and in absence of daycare, the vast majority of prospective families are going to do some very simple budget math to figure out who can afford to be a stay-at-home parent. It is exactly the "kitchen" crap from years gone by but with some populist indirection to avoid calling it that.
If Nascar can ban the traitor towel, this should have been a completely trivial thing for Glasgow to pull off. That this decision caused this much stir tells you all you need to know about this place.
Sure, but people wanting families are facing these decisions right now. They don't want to wait for society to get its head screwed on straight. The root comment was "stay at home parents! no more daycare!" but sailed right over all the macro and micro consequences of that.
The food analogy is great. But I think there's a quantitative difference in effort and long term commitment between what to have for dinner and how you'll afford to raise your family.
At a coarse level, children from families with more money are better off so I disagree. Daycare is a small part of a child's life. Really 3-4 years out of 18 and of those, only 9-5 at that. In exchange, you afford a nicer, safer town with better schools. If your family chooses a stay-at-home parent, you won't afford those places when competing against dual income families.
Is someone actually proposing that we're simply going to dump would-be colonists on Mars with a shovel and some O2 tanks then wave goodbye? Like, no shit we still need to work things out but that just means it's unknown, not impossible.
This book seems unnecessarily pessimistic. I don't know why I would spend money on doomscrolling, Kindle Edition.
It's always fun to read people's justifications for brutal occupation.