Personal Note XVIII

Yahweh in (יהוה‎):
Moses and the Burning Bush

Should you create a family?
Sunday – November 30, 2025

First and foremost, whether or not you should create a family is entirely up to you and I do not intend to tell you or anyone else how to live your life, but I do want to just offer some advice. Creating a family is expensive and if you're young and have no strong social safety nets and you lack a job and/or good education, then creating a family, especially introducing children to the world, will likely crash whatever economy you have. See, there are good and responsible ways to create a family, so that you and your family can suffer less. The world is not a nice place and the material domain is very much not a nice place, certainly not for kids. Yes, in the distant past when the economic infrastructure relied less on human will and input and more on nature, you could be basically more reckless when you created a family, but in this world that's just not a wise proposition. You also don't have to create a family: understand that there's a certain amount of pressure on you to create a family and that's not because the revolutionary elite really care about family politics, but because they care about the economic and the fact is still that modern economies rely on new and more people every generation, and without that the economy will eventually start to slide into a depression, really a deflationary spiral. There are some examples of this late and decaying state of the economy in places such as South Korea and Japan, where the birth rates are very low, in South Korea I believe women have on average less than one child, which from both a cultural and economic point of view could be described as catastrophic. Well, in the case of South Korea it's likely the case that the entire nation may just die out, which I am sure will be a remarkable thing to witness and to document. I don't believe that humanity is meant for this world, so I do not believe that you, or I when I used to live in the world, or anyone else has a responsibility to create life, because I believe that the world is fundamentally not good. I believe though, that goodness can be achieved and I believe that goodness used to be more salient in the distant past. Is it the case then that family creation was more simple and easier in the past? Yes, but only materially: creating a family was indeed easier and more affordable in the past, but I don't believe that it is true to say that the moral implications of creating a family were essentially different in the past. Men who create families will have a harder time gaining profound insight, and I also believe that these men will essentially always be biased towards the material domain because they have anchored themselves within the material domain. But what else could be asked of these men? At any rate, if I am going to tell you to do something I do believe that you should act with great caution if you intend to create a family: do remember that most people are pushed into creating families, not because they believe in some overriding and metaphysical principle, but because they've been told to collapse all of their life into their most primal and animalistic senses. This is not how a man of dignity and rank should act: a man that is well rounded and of insight should always think before he acts. In fact, there's nothing masculine about acting on emotional, hormonal, and instinctual input; in fact this is the very opposite of masculinity. Always ask yourself this before you do anything and commit to anything: do I believe that I will do this in a year, in two years, in five years? If not then you likely shouldn't do it. While creating a family could be a wonderful thing, it is actually often the case that people go on to create families and then live with a lifelong regret: essentially you can't take back creating a family, it's an irreversible decision. It's one thing to end up with the wrong career, education, or even partner, but it's another thing entirely to regret having children; always proceed with caution and always remember that your decisions should be geared towards making your life in the world easier and less painful so that you can spend your days improving for the time of rebirth to come.

    I believe that if you then end up putting children into the world that you do have a paramount responsibility to protect and take care of them, and yes this could even entail that you would be very normative because it is the norm to want to protect your children. What I am trying to get at is this: if you aren't careful with your family planning you may find yourself in the heap of the populist horde rather quickly and your life can become governed by the materialist order rather quickly, because after all you need to take care of your family. But a family doesn't and shouldn't have to be distraction, but in our modern world that's unfortunately often the case, but there are exceptions: I believe that many African communities are far more resilient when it comes to family creation and planning and I believe that these people will repopulate the world at the close of the Kali Yuga, but this is a topic that I have covered lightly in the past. Many communities in Africa simply refuse to introduce the modern world into their lives and this does create space for real and sacred ways of family life. Yes, I believe that family life is a natural and good and descent part of a man's life, because the need to steer his family in the righteous direction make a man essentially a man, it forces him to become a man and with that it forces him closer to the creator, but this is only true in very few communities in our modern world.

    Your sense of wanting to create a family is essentially good, but this sense, this impulse, is and will be used against you. So again, act with caution.

Reginald Drax – November 30, 2025.