It is a bit too early in our discourse to touch on anti-natalism, but a word or two on parenting would be appropriate. Many parents are tremendously concerned about how their children will turn out. There is no end to their fussing over things like nutrition and schooling and preparing them for a career and watching out for their daily safety, and so on and so on. This is all fine in a neutral sort of way. You have to spend your life's finite hours somehow and this is as time consuming as anything else you might find.
It has however been brought to my attention that some mothers and fathers sincerely think that any of this matters. They need to cut that out right now. It is, also, much too early for us to be diving into the nature/nurture debate, but it's nature.
So stop worrying about if your infant will grow up to be a doctor or a lawyer or a scientist or a serial killer or a con artist or whatever. The child will spend their adulthood how they want to spend it. If that is finding a cure for cancer, great. If they'd rather sit next to a velvet picture of Elvis while they smoke Marlboros all day, fine. It is their decision. The weird fact is that your children are not you. You cannot preprogram their life for them.
This notion that other people are indeed not us, is something that would do well to catch on in the wider world as well for that matter. The other bipeds you see walking around are, according to all available data, a different mind and body from you altogether. Somebody did something you don't agree with? Okay, let's all make a note of that, and move on.
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The Penultimate Solution-A Call to Chaos
FantasyThe sure literary antidote to everything that bothers in the modern world, extending indefinitely into the future while also touching on all of human history-and some inhuman.
