While I agree what we currently have in the west is not sustainable, I disagree the reason for it is individualism or Enlightenment. Other much less individuali

While I agree what we currently have in the west is not sustainable, I disagree the reason for it is individualism or Enlightenment. Other much less individualistic countries have the same or even worse problems with fertility (Japan, South Korea, China, Russia,...). To be honest without the technological development of western societies, which happened because of Enlightenment, the countries which have highest fertility rates today would have much smaller population rise if any, because most of the kids would die at child birth. In my opinion the problem of low birthrate is because of (in random order): - career obsession culture (you're a failure if you don't climb up the ladder, which has done a lot of damage especially to women in general) - prolonged childhood (30s is the new 20s) - prolonged education (spend a quarter of a century in child care and schools, mostly with people who themselves have no work experience outside those institutions) - moral relativity and everything traditional is believed nonsense without even trying to understand it