Thanatophobia: Are the Elderly Projecting their Fear of Death?
In a ‘traditional’ society, there tend to be many more children than parents. Around the 1900s, European women birthed 7 children each, making for 3.5 children per parent. But today, Western European (native white) women are hardly producing more than 1–1.5 children, making for fewer than 1 child per parent.
That means there are no longer enough children to take care of the elderly. It also means that the elderly have become a demographic and electoral majority. In The Netherlands, for example, the over-65 population accounts for about 20% of the total population but the under-20 population is hardly 21%. And under-40s represent a meager 46% of the total.
Fertile Dutch women (roughly ages 15–35) are barely 10–12% of the total population, or about 1 in 10. One-third of these fertile Dutch women are now non-native (non-white). Moreover, half of the younger fertile women (15–25) say they don’t want any more children or don’t want to have children at all.
Because the non-fertile electoral population of women (ages 35 and up) is by far a majority (since under-18s don’t vote), the infertile older women can use their democratic vote to dominate the fertile younger ones at a ratio of two-to-one. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that old Dutch women are voting against the interests of younger women.
Why would older women vote against the interests of younger women’s fertility? Well, narcissism and death. Western populations aren’t just aging, they have started dying off. Since most people are afraid of death, the natural response of an old majority is to continue to cling to life by any means necessary. An unhealthy dose of narcissism present in the West exacerbates this condition.
The old are using democracy to extend their lives but only at the expense of the fertility of the young. The old are oppressing the young, and therewith, the survival of Western demographics. This is an important and oft-overlooked argument against democracy. Democracies only “work” as long as they serve the interests of a fertile majority. When such fertile majorities no longer exist, the infertile start winning the elections.
As death approaches people of old age, the fear of death among the class of elderly is normally countered by the abundance of the youth who demand that life must go on. But in the West, the young are an electoral minority who cannot use democratic means to secure their survival. The over-40s can, even though they are a largely infertile demographic.
The “pandemic” we are in is clear evidence of this fact: the elderly are projecting their personal fear of death onto the young, stifling society, locking down the economy, combatting a “flu” with compulsory injections. An irrational death-fear is holding the world in its grip.
What comes next should be self-evident: in the West, the elderly will soon die off. The question is whether the old will drag the fertile generations with them to their grave or not.