Margaret Atwood Prescience? - 11 November 2026

The theme of men increasingly opting out of women is now proliferating at viral levels across social media. A widening cultural rift between the sexes tracks the ongoing, accelerating decline in marriage and birth rates across the US and the West more broadly. Project current fertility (roughly 1.6 children per woman) forward with zero immigration and the US population roughly halves within a century. To the extent enough people still believe human consciousness is worth preserving, what mechanisms will actually be deployed to reverse the collapse? Margaret Atwood—or, for that matter, Brigham Young—may prove more prescient than is commonly allowed.

PS. Oh, did I mention? Ectogenesis is a thing. Look it up. At what point do women become optional while still moving civilization forward?