Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ on Nostr: I think that people in the US have a sense that everything is so screwed up that they ...

I think that people in the US have a sense that everything is so screwed up that they want a clean slate, like restarting a video game. Freud expressed this as something like "an aspect of libidinal energy that seeks 'to lead organic life back into the inanimate state'", to quote wiki. This clean slate means no children because children carry on memory and the results of decisions being made now.