A Response to Andrew on Children

This is a response to Andrew's question on why people have children.

(http://capturedperspective.com/author/andrewdkurtz)

I know... nobody asked me, but I am going to tell you anyway.

But before I do, here is a warning ---

The following will sound like the totally incomprehensible rantings of a raving lunatic... but I hope you (Andrew), and perhaps some other bemused readers, would enlighten me and prove my cynicism unfounded.

Like you said, Andrew, no child has ever asked to be born. I would add that nor has any adult ever consulted the egg if it wants to be fertilized by the sperm.

So then, why do people have children?

My theory is that children are adults' toys; more partucularly they are women's toys, as most "normal" men are usually too engrossed in fancy cars, computers, and all their other technological gizmos.

Really, if you consider it... culturally, socially, politically, economically, or otherwise... there is no just cause, especially in this age of technology, to have children. My instinctive suspicion is that people have children so that they can have toys to play with. And like everything else, when people get tired of their toys, they get rid of them.

However, because we are "civilized", we don't throw children into the dump (although we do sometimes leave them for other adults to play with). Instead, we raise, nurture and educate them, hopefully to be just like us so that when they become adults, they can keep the wheel turning and so will have toys of their own to play with.

But let the truth be told --- this nurturing business is not for the children's sake; it is but a display of how one adult's toy may be better than another's. (And to think so many of these little children running around challenging: "my Dad is better than your dad." Ha! how naive and innocent [and stupid?] can they get!) The adults' ultimate goal still remains to "nudge" (and in some instances, shovel) the children out of their house and life.

The human race calls this process "cutting the umbilical cord".

What a load of horse#%&@, if you ask me. It's just too bad that nobody did.

The human race is basically a selfish race; I might also add that we are possibly the most intolerant and destructive species that has ever roamed the surface of this earth.

All ET really needs to do is look at the way adults all over the world, regardless of their cultural , social, economical, political, or any other status, behave and at the things they do!

What a sorry world to bring a child into.

So, why don't the human race just simply stop making children and, perhaps, eventually self-destruct?

Good question --- why not?

After all, we do destroy everything else.

In my (unasked for) opinion, if the world is to be salvaged, the "Y" generation, or perhaps the next generation (because for some of us it may already be too late, and don't even bother with the ME generation), has to do something.

What is that something, you may ask.

Frankly, Huxley's Brave New World makes a lot of sense ... I think.