Culture Over Policy: The Birth Rate Decline
20th March 2024
The view that Biology and Culture generally trump Policy is probably going to become a mainstay in my pieces. But I’ll use this one to explicitly argue for why Culture (mostly) beats Policy, using one of the most convincing examples: the decline in birth rates observed across developed nations and subsequent efforts to reverse the trend. This adds empirical depth to some theoretical considerations.
“Policy”, as used by the Cloud People, is merely a euphemism for “government policy”, and government policy has never been effectual in overriding culture. Witness Prohibition in the U.S.