I wouldn't necessarily call it a collapse, either, as that's merely a transformation into something new.

After ww2, especially in the 1960s the breakdown of the family had begun as the amount of movies that came out about divorce increased, eerily the divorce rates in real life increased in correlation with each movie release throughout the decade.

Or, rather, was it instead capturing what was unfolding?

Seriously

Shall I show you a graph?

Atheism began spreading like wildfire during those times as well.

i think we should culturally return to the 1900s or late 1890s

Oh, no, I'm certain those rates spiraled out of control around WWII, something you can thank Hitler for.

As did birthrates, with huge losses of population.

@tea_in_space Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be...

Hitler destroyed Europe.

But, he also united it in some form, in the end.

Nonetheless, the consequences rage on, nearly a century later.

Under facism

Then, you had the Cold War.

People were so scared of what was coming from the East, they wouldn't even have children.

There was so much deception during that time period

Similar to the Climate Change scare on the new generations.

They were terrified of the world they might bring a child into. This fear merely finds a new placeholder, generation after generation, within the anxious mass.

that seems like bullshit

The damage that people like al gore has done was pretty severe

in general declining birthrates are associated quite highly with an increase in female labor force participation

All you need is listen to what those people, who live in fear, are claiming.

commodification of domestic labor, the fruits of the decrepit capitalist system

That's a contributing factor, too, but not the sole factor.

So, did the Queen really declare that the UK would leave the EU on 31 October?

They cant function, they are consumed with this unending dread and fear that is obviously manufactured.

Indeed, @Great Britain.

I feel sorry for these people as they are "victims" of this new world order globalist programing, it horrible

I wouldn't blame that on Capitalism, rather I'd attribute that to egalitarian reformers, @Death in June.

social reform empowered by the capitalist system

Certainly, it couldn't be as bad as the social reforms of centralized economic and social planners.

They are scaring the living shit out of children, its making them think that their whole family and friends will be dead in the next 12 years, so so awful.

it's not as bad, it's worse

While you glorify the PRC, they've made a fatal mistake in their one-child policy.

i don't glorify the prc

We've discussed them before, and you claimed to prefer living under their system.

Thats coming to the west soon, dont worry about that

i said i might

Indeed, @Great Britain.

i levied more praise on the systems of fascist italy and the libyan arab jamahiriya