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My concern is the intersection of rightwing natalism with Silicon Valley ideology leading to technological “solutions” involving, essentially, test tube babies.
by adriand 1y ago
My concern is the intersection of rightwing natalism with Silicon Valley ideology leading to technological “solutions” involving, essentially, test tube babies. Take women out of the picture entirely. I can especially see a dystopian dynamic involving the “we have to compete with China” or “they’re doing it / about to do it in China” narratives.
- chrisco255 1y agoA "test tube baby" is simply an IVF pregnancy. What is the problem with parents using IVF to conceive?
- adriand 1y agoThat’s a colloquial term for IVF pregnancies but that’s not what I mean. I mean artificial wombs, and all the other technologies downstream from a push to “scale up” procreation: like robots that can raise children.
- nradov 1y agoIVF isn't a problem per se, and it's great that we have those option for prospective parents who want it. But it's unreliable, expensive, and simply not a scalable solution to anything.
- pfdietz 1y agoNah, the right wing solution would be replacing prison with compulsory pregnancy. Sufficient numbers of convicts can be created by appropriate laws.
- xp84 1y agoThis really shows what a bogeyman the “right wing” is to you! Cartoon villains, basically.
- suslik 1y agoI’d say artificial womb is a technocratic center-left solution. A right-wing solution would be a proverbial “Kinder, Küche, Kirche” for all women. I, for one, would bet my firstborn that a solution to the demographic question such that fulfills modern sensibilities is to ever be found.
- zappb 1y agoSo the Axlotl tanks from Dune.
- ai_critic 1y agoAnd this is bad why, exactly? Women already don't want to be mothers--and everybody has pushed so hard that being a housewife is bad!--so what's the issue here?
- adriand 1y agoBecause children need mothers. Some women may not want to be mothers, but they all had one. Children need fathers too. They need love. When they don’t get love, they turn into fucked up adults.