Actually there’s a clear correlation between generational high achievers and childlessness. Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Tesla, Rand, Beethoven… You know that ‘Gult’s Gulch’ that was trending on Nostr a while ago? Written by a middle aged Russian woman that didn’t have kids.
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I’m not sure there is a clear correlation, Einstein, Aristotle, Descartes, Shakespeare, Napoleon, Galileo, Jung, Socrates, Wagner, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Jobs, Picasso, Tolkien, Darwin, Planck, Bach, Marcus Aurelius all had children.
Your pool is 10-20 times bigger. If people couldn’t find meaning or direction or happiness or freedom from the system without kids none of my list would exist (forgot Newton, Hume, Woolfe, Kant, Dickinson…)
Yeah but it isn’t correlative is my point. Also most geniuses who didn’t have children weren’t rejecting family so much as shaped by intense neurodivergence (autism etc…) or single minded focus. Their paths weren’t the result of some alternative lifestyle design, they were often anomalies compelled by outsized obsession and focus. Or they were just gay at a time when that wasn’t socially acceptable like Michelangelo for instance.
It is correlative. If my list is comparative to yours but my pool is 20 times smaller, there’s a correlation. Neurodivergence or anything else doesn’t change that fact.
Controlling for neurodivergence and homosexuality negates the correlation
Lol ok. Because in your world people who are neurodivergent or homosexuals don’t count? These are the values you’re instilling in young people?
lol I’m not going to respond to your hysterical bad faith interpretation of what I said buddy boy
That's comforting to know.
Amongst the more crazy femnistis they're talking about how woman that don't get children live longer, are healthier and probably "happier".
You probably can be very happy without having children. But you gotta find something that you love, recognize it and start focusing on it.
Having children might be one of the best ways to love in life - but, there are many ways.
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Being a high achiever doesn't mean that you had a feeling of fullfillment in your life.