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Just a Phase
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I was reading an opinion piece that was complaining about ["gross old famous men"](https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/older-famous-men-need-to-stop-having-children/news-story/0d0d6b2de451914ef33dca0547a4547b) and how they *must be stopped* from having children. The position of the author was that it was unfair on the child, because they wouldn't have a father to play ball with and some such. And at first though, it sounds valid, but then, this is a person who is outspoken against *body shaming* and the like too.  


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From the article:

>Maybe I’m asking too much but I think if you have a child you need to be young enough to realistically be alive long enough to parent them.

Yes. Yes, you are asking for too much. What are you going to say to all of those children who lost their father because of war, defending their country? Or, what about people like my wife's brother in law who dies at thirty from cancer? How about those killed on work sites, or in traffic accidents. Are the lives of the children fundamentally and irretrievably destroyed? My daughter came very close to not having a father a few years ago when I had a stroke and as much as I want to be in her life, I have *very little control* over whether I live or die myself, even if I do eat healthily.

Sure, there are the "playing the odds" argument and statistically, the people she is talking about aren't likely to live that long, but statistics don't matter much these days and at least these people, are able to pay for their own medical bills. Unlike the majority of people who don't look after their bodies and will suffer from lung cancer, heart failure, knee and ankle problems, stomach problems and the epidemic that is depression. 

>Who knows, I might live until I am 100.

*But the statistics aren't in my favor.* 

Like all people, I go through various phases in my life and at the moment, I am pretty negative on the outlook for the future. It is not that I don't believe it can be better, it is that I don't believe that the average person is going to do what it takes to make it better. Instead, they are going to jump on "public discourse" like this ridiculous article I linked and pick a side - *thoughtlessly.* Because, they don't actually have time to think much about the topic at hand, because they are too busy moving to the next one, or taking a picture of their lunch to share with strangers. 

>People are idiots. 

*All people.* 
I'm an idiot too. 

Rather than spending time doing something useful - *I read that fucking article.*

I am a firm believer that we are what we eat and we are fast becoming for stupider as a population. Not only that, I also believe that the more we consume, the less creative we become, as we start to replicate, rather than innovate. Our brains shut down their imaginative side and instead take the easy path, amplifying the information of others. 

>Just share.

But, when everyone is sharing the same inane content split down the middle on polarized sides, it means that there isn't thought diversity and we are becoming homogenous in ideas - unlikely to break free from the shackles of a downward spiraling middle. The outliers of society used to be on the edges of an argument, but the normal distribution is being inverted, with the middle average being squeezed so that it fills up the sides instead. The average person is becoming more extreme, the person who is balanced in the middle, is a minority. 

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You see, those "gross old men" having babies in their sixties and seventies, are outliers too - that isn't the norm in society, yet it is positioned as a "problem" - one that not only affects a tiny sliver of people, but those people are also in the tiny sliver of people who would be considered *extremely wealthy.

>In 2020, an average of 44 people died each day from overdoses involving prescription opioids, totaling more than 16,000 deaths. Prescription opioids were involved in nearly 24% of all opioid overdose deaths in 2020, a 16% increase in prescription opioid-involved deaths from 2019 to 2020. [](https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/prescription/maps.html)

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/tarazkp/23zSLJai53ia7BWz89vKXcEWqa7uWksxzLM1GeWkiXyfK41xNi84eRmJysj3wgsU2BeMh.png)

How many of these people had children? and the largest demographic for death from prescription opioids? 

# 35-44

Think of all those kids who will not only have to live their life without a father, but have to come to terms with their parent dying from an overdose on *prescription* medication.

> Gross old governments!

#### Percentage of U.S. children and adolescents who are obese:


![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/tarazkp/EnoP6Pmvfj7TVWdBBVjQYB14GBdtpS8NeGJSf4did9GUVEq97ESMz9kjr4xxuEtByzG.png)

>Gross old society.

*And all those *body positive people* who normalize being overweight as if it is something to be celebrated. Almost 20 percent of children aged six to eleven are *obese* in the US. And for those counting, that is a group of 24,500,000 kids - so that is 

# 4,728,000 obese children 

*just in that age group.*

It isn't Al Pacino's fault.

>Don't worry though, it is just a phase.... 

# So, who is to blame?

*We are of course!*

Because we are the ones that would rather read about some celebrity, than do something active to improve the world in a meaningful way. We'd rather be outraged on Twitter about what its CEO said, than spend our time doing something that helps others - *or ourselves.* 

>We are fucking idiots.

And, it might just be a phase, where we are creating a new culture that will be accepted by all. One where we are kept cows, consuming until we can no longer consume more, before being put out to pasture - *left to die.* 

But, it is articles like the one linked above that are part of the problem - clickbait content designed to draw people in, but not give them anything actually useful. It is all filler for clicks, so the author can get paid for doing a job that adds no value to society, but brings in advertising revenue. This is the ad model internet and the entire premise is to keep people clicking, keep them consuming, no matter how out of shape, how depressed, how ill, how lonely, or how poor parents they become. 

>Pretty gross. 

Taraz
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@cmplxty.leo ·
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Sadly the clickbait economy is thriving quite well. I have to sadly wonder in this day and age if that was even a legitimate person who wrote that. It likely could have just been AI to generate some controversy just like this post. Assholes succeeded in their subversion lol. 

I get annoyed with the body positivity movement, it’s rooted in the destruction of society at the end of the day, and one that is fomented with profit for companies in mind more than anything else. We need to get out of the ridiculous paradigm we are in, and get past these foolish concepts. 
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@tarazkp ·
>I have to sadly wonder in this day and age if that was even a legitimate person who wrote that.

I think that this one is. 

>I get annoyed with the body positivity movement, it’s rooted in the destruction of society at the end of the day, and one that is fomented with profit for companies in mind more than anything else. 

Yes it is - yet, people seem to take the side of convenience in all things. It is convenient to believe the lie, because to seek the truth means putting a spotlight on ourselves. 
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@devpress ·
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The way entitled people and people who want to damage the cursor of life, No wonder cult like islam tend to break these rules and try to overthrow such utopian ideological cultures. That book author if ever lived in islamic neighborhood would get slaughtered for such extreme genetic views. I know plenty of people in islam who marry in odd age combo. And noticed that nobody from the secular world has power or even guts to point fingers at them. 

I used to lecture people who are overweight and have BMI issues but then despite being fit and healthy, I had blood pressure due to stress, so I stopped meddling in the lives of people, in short nature and universe has strong way of teaching us that.
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@tarazkp ·
People have to take responsibility for themselves first. I wonder though, would it be easier to be fit and healthy if the average culture encouraged it, instead of encouraging accepting poor condition as default?
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@ducecrypto ·
That's why we need to celebrate progressive content that motivates people to take action and increase effective public discourse -- like your writing. I definitely find myself falling into the trap of wanting to learn more before taking action, thinking that I need all the information before making my commitment to trying to do better. When instead, it would be more beneficial to just get started trying something, anything, to make a positive change and if it doesn't work, then going back to do more learning to try something new. Too much passive, not enough active!
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@freecompliments ·
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You hit upon some excellent points in this post. However, I still retain some hope, and here's the reason: in the background of this loud nonsense, there are innovators out there, hard at work crafting our future. They're not loud, but they are busy creating and building. We're living in a time when innovation is moving as fast as ever, and every generation brings a new reality at an ever-increasing pace.

Olden times did not have enough resources - or even educated people - for this to happen. There were few innovators building the future at that time. We're living in an era wherein people can and do take advantage of our resources to make things better. In older days, a tiny minority of people could ever create innovations - now, as well, a tiny amount can do so, but: we have more people, and more access to allow this to happen.

Let the majority do as they will - there's frankly not a great deal that we, as individuals, or even as small groups can do to change this. However, we must encourage the innovators to continue their paths of changing the world.
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@tarazkp ·
I think innovation might be slowing down, but for now, we don't recognize that because we are able to see it all happen globally. It is similar to the violence in the world that can be cherrypicked to make people fear living locally, even though where they live is safe. 

>In older days, a tiny minority of people could ever create innovations - 

I am not sure about this. I think because everyone had to provide more for themselves, everyone had to be somewhat creative. Now, most people are consumptive only. 
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@frostyamber ·
Hello my friend! &#128522;

You've done it again, perfectly stated, especially loved the part where you said, "People are idiots. All people. I'm an idiot too.", because it's true, we're all idiots at some point, even the smartest of the smart have a slap their forehead moment once in a while, even if they don't realize it when it happens. &#128522;

We have become a society of "me" instead of a community of human beings that helped each other out when needed, but I think we need to go back to helping our neighbours/communities, build them back up, replace the broken system we've got now, because it isn't going to get better, just more broken, unfortunately, and a lot of people still don't see it as a problem. That's what blows my mind the most, those that don't see any issues with what's going on in the world right now. Some people are clueless or just don't care, but others are trying to make things worse and worse, so its up to us to spread positivity around to counter their negativity. This is just my opinion, of course, but hopefully, there are enough of us that still believe in being helpful, kind, using manners and being polite when meeting new people, folks that want to build people up rather than rip others down. &#128522;

Well this cup of tea is gone, time to have my second before getting my day started. I'll chat with you again soon. &#128522;

God bless you and your wonderful family. Have an awesome day my fabulous friend! &#128522;
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@jfang003 ·
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Nobody can really control what happens but I do think we are responsible for what happens to us. I live in the US and I know the way that most of us live is unhealthy. There are times when I grab things outside because I feel tired to cook. The entire body positivity movement just sounds like a ton of bs though.
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@tarazkp ·
> but I do think we are responsible for what happens to us.

Me too. We have to live our experience. It is "owned". 

> The entire body positivity movement just sounds like a ton of bs though.

Accept yourself no matter what you do - No wonder there are so many violent people. 
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@krabgat ·
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I appreciate your article. I concur that it is incorrect to refer to older men bearing children as "gross." It frequently happens that some men prefer to marry only when they can adequately provide for a family because, in the traditional sense, men are viewed as the providers for their families. I don't see that as necessarily bad.
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@tarazkp ·
These guys have been adequately able to provide for decades - they are wealthy, wealthy people, with all the support money can buy available to them. 
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@mattclarke ·
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Pacino could drop dead before that kid's first birthday; we still know the kid'll be provided for, for life. No cooking their own dinner because their single mum is working a second job to get by. **Don't have kids you can't support** is great advice, and absolutely not applicable here.
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@aftersound ·
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This right here. It's crazy how people are able to stretch and conflate everything.
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@tarazkp ·
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>Don't have kids you can't support is great advice, and absolutely not applicable here.

And I think it is more than just financially - a lot of people seem to not be able to support their kids in most ways that matter, yet still consider themselves good parents. 
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@mikezillo ·
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This is quite a controversial topic, even if, the andropause sometimes may occur very very late.

Until a kid is desired with love, I think that it can be looked after. Anyway, nature tells us that there are some natural boundaries, where parents are also required to be fit and reactive for kids to be grown up. 

So a careful balance (avoiding selfish attitude) must be pursued 
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@tarazkp ·
I wonder, in the past where there was a strong family unit, if this would have been seen as a problem. As the saying goes "it takes a community to raise a child" and maybe it is the loss of community in so many people that is causing them to think a parent is the only way for a child to be happy. 
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@nill2021 ·
Nobody is in control of death is an inevitable event some of us leave before others a little later but the final destiny can not be avoided, in something you are right we are responsible for many of the situations that happen to us.
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@preparedwombat ·
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I long ago decided *it’s none of my damn business* if other people do or do not have children.

Life is too short to spend time worrying about what other people do with their naughty bits.
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@tarazkp ·
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>Life is too short to spend time worrying about what other people do with their naughty bits.

And this is the conflict I don't like, because the same person would tell that "what other people do is their business" in many other contexts. It doesn't sell clicks though.
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@riverflows · (edited)
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Mate, I loved this post - probably because you are incensed and passionate enough to respond to that inane, shallow opinion so intelligently. And yes, it must trigger you as a Dad too, given how you know how easily that could be taken away if you die. 

>  I also believe that the more we consume, the less creative we become, as we start to replicate, rather than innovate. Our brains shut down their imaginative side and instead take the easy path, amplifying the information of others.

Agreed. No one wants to look deep and no one seems to have the ability to interrogate, investigate, criticise - they'd rather just share and spout bullshit without thinking it through.

Of COURSE it'd be easier to neuter paedophiles or take obese children away or whatever extreme solution people have to poor parenting or just poor human behaviour, but how about we work a bit harder to fix the issues and problems behind this instead of encourage shallow, unhelpful, kneejerk responses in a world that has had enough of those? 
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@tarazkp ·
>but how about we work a bit harder to fix the issues and problems behind this instead of encourage shallow, unhelpful, kneejerk responses in a world that has had enough of those?

And this is the problem with the approach of "whack-a-mole" - it just creates more problems endlessly, without addressing the old ones effectively. It is an explosion of issues until nothing is possible to handle. 

People will focus on what they can't do anything about, to save them doing something and failing. 
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@ryivhnn ·
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Maybe I shouldn't judge something I didn't/wouldn't read but I feel like the people that write that kind of stuff never feel like they are part of the problem and always feel like they are calling out something other lesser people are too scared/square to admit/telling it like it is (as foolish as it is to deal in that level of absolutes XD).

Consumption itself doesn't limit/shut off imagination (it generally does the opposite), but that requires thinking about it for longer than it takes to initially dis/agree.
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@tarazkp ·
>I feel like the people that write that kind of stuff never feel like they are part of the problem and always feel like they are calling out something other lesser people are too scared/square to admit/telling it like it is

Generally. It is a superiority complex based on cherry-picked topics. 

It depends what is consumed, because enough poor material and the "thinking about it longer" is conditioned out of the process. 
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@sahidclement10 ·
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Great post @tarazkp.
I had to take my time to read through this post.
From the article you read, i guess no one has the right to dictate when and who to give birth. Though, giving birth early sounds great, but that doesn't mean that those in their 60s should be left out.
And also, life has change so much that humans now focus on drastic things. People don't longer use their IQ for important test. We now solely depend on other factors.
Ain't you surprise, that Almost all the topics being taught in **Physics, Mathematics** and **Chemsitry**, where long discovered by people who are dead thousands and hundreds of years ago.
Just hope that humanity get's it right.
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@tarazkp ·
I wonder how many more discoveries in math and physics are made before people can no longer make any more. 
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@shanibeer ·
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Al Pacino's having a baby? Aww! πŸ˜‚

I often wonder about those columns, they're like eating sugar, leave you feeling empty afterwards. I'm annoyed each time I'm duped into reading them. I prefer the recipes 😍.

Thinking is a challenge: I've just been through it this weekend. Working out exactly what the problem is and then what I want to do about it. The answer, interestingly, is nothing. The other choices were to run with the herd which is in a frenzied FOMO, or make a stand when no-one is listening. It helped me clarify my own direction and decisions, though, maybe that's all that we can hope for.
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@tarazkp ·
I don't know why they are so attractive, but I think part of it is that they trigger a response to support or condemn - they are not there just to give information.

> It helped me clarify my own direction and decisions, though, maybe that's all that we can hope for.

And in so doing, you become master of your own destiny - or at least, *slave* to your own destiny :)
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@shanibeer ·
> they trigger a response

Ah, the drama triangle - I forgot about that 😁

Interesting that there have been two posts today, yours and one other, that were just what I needed to read right now. Bonus value when posts are timely 😍
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@thebighigg ·
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Great post!

Will these "gross old men" be alive for much of the kids life? No. Will the mother? Probably. Will the kids be financially stable, hell yes. So if they want kids at 80 why not? Everyone has free will. I personally wouldn't do it because I would feel guilty knowing that I'm probably going to drop dead before the kids tenth birthday. But  death is something we have no control over, yes we can try to modify risk factors but 18 year old's drop dead every day from heart attacks. Not only the obese ones but student athletes too. Although statistically it probably won't happen until after 50 unless you're a heavy drug user.
  
Just like you I don't see what opioid deaths and childhood obesity have to do with Al Pacino. As humans we all tend to be stupid, it's a fact of life.  I do think that this "phase" of accepting of all sounds nice. but it will end quickly as soon as World War 3 kicks in with millions and millions dead around the world or some other mega disaster ravages the earth. There was once a film called "Reality Bites" (don't watch it, it sucks,) but welcome to the world because it reality does bite. The world can very cruel. Yes I'm getting old and cynical. I worry for my kids futures and for the human race as a whole. Maybe Elon Musk's Mars colony will save humanity, who knows?

Click bait is toxic and should be avoided, but hey, that's how they make their money like you said. Hell, I got sucked into this post because it looks interesting, I'm as guilty as anyone! Thanks for the great post and sorry for the long winded and rambling response. It's nice to know that some people in this world of ours still make use of their gray matter!
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@tarazkp ·
>I personally wouldn't do it because I would feel guilty knowing that I'm probably going to drop dead before the kids tenth birthday.

But, what about the mother? If you are with someone who is of childbearing age, why shouldn't she have children?


>. but it will end quickly as soon as World War 3 kicks in with millions and millions dead around the world or some other mega disaster ravages the earth. 

Yep. Life is too easy when this is what we are worrying about. Perhaps if some of these people had harder lives or saw how hard it is for a lot of the world, they would change their tune on dealing with what is important. 

>Hell, I got sucked into this post because it looks interesting, I'm as guilty as anyone! 

Hopefully, it was worth more than the general clickbait! :D
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@thebighigg ·
Much better, it's always nice to find someone who actually thinks things through methodically! As far as more kids if I had 50 million in the bank the story might be different.

I've spent years of my life living in South America, I've me people who had dirt floors in their house and still make the best of it. People in first world countries just don't understand how good they have it!
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