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My hypothesis is the decline is caused by a multifaceted change in environment:
All in all, we've got a society that is nearly perfectly designed to reduce libido in the population. Those that manage to avoid or ignore these challenges find a very small dating pool compared to decades past. Those that pair off are less likely to have offspring, such that we will likely have a population collapse in the next hundred years. Hopefully by then have figured enough of this out that we build a society that makes it easy to be a human who finds joy and love in other humans and not in a screen.
Lost third spaces, hanging out with other kids and helicopter parenting/stranger danger.
possibly because nobody/only very few people would attend them anyways.
Those are all great points. As a society we are likely suffering from a polycrisis and no single root cause.
"The raindrop never thinks itself responsible for the flood" or something
This post is so amazing and complete I have nothing to add but my appreciation.
Thanks!