Reproductive strategy is likely to become essentially irrelevant for humanity, possibly within our lifetimes.
I don't understand this at all. In addition to artificial procreation, someone still has to invest 18+ years to nurture and develop the infant to adulthood.
To clarify one of the points of my prior comment, we Westerners somehow think we can usurp the existing parents or system (e.g. Islam) ignoring the fact that we are usurping individuals who were invested in the action, and we replace it with nothing but a power vacuum. This is the case both in individual examples of the State and social workers messing with families, and in the Middle East where afaik we carved up a region and assigned country boundaries which made no sense in terms of tribal and religious boundaries. We have left so much destruction in our wake in the Middle East, creating ISIS, so much collateral damage to 1000s if not millions of women and children. Worse yet, is the power vacuum we've left in our wake which will lead to millions of abused/trafficked women and children.
Even the State usurping the parents via the mandatory State schools and leave in the wake of the SJW indoctrination a power vacuum wherein the parents have absolutely no control over their kids and they run amok and the family concept is obliterated. Fathers can't even beat their kids any more, when it is really necessary. I remember my ex got so pissed off at me some 6 or more years ago bcz she said my kids feared my discipline (which was a good thing and actually the kids were just trying to find a way weasel out of being self-disciplined and were playing their mother like a fiddle), so I stopped being a disciplinarian. And now look what happens. My son comes here and I try my best to be close and encourage him to do good, and [redacted because I can't write personal stuff about others in public]. I should beat the shit out of him, for being such an undisciplined dumb ass, but nooooo I dare not do anything. Shut my mouth and watch him self-destruct. Yeah good job Westerners! Just keep going the direction you are...yeah you don't do evil. Your God authority makes you so good. Spreading the democracy power vacuum all over the world for the sake of women and children and God
We Westerners are notorious for running around the world and telling everyone else how to run their own lives. But then all we do is talk and destroy stuff and we don't actually build anything and get involved on a personal level any more.
If you really are serious about usurping other parents and cultures/religions, then go all in and adopt ever single one of the kids and spend the rest of your life married to all of the women as a polygamist.
It is that sort of hypocrite crap that makes me hate Westerners.
They've always got to stick their nose in everybody else's business, even when they claim to be anarchists and they still can't stop themselves from being responsible for the morals and choices of others, yet it is so convenient to do it from their armchairs when they don't really have to actually follow through and not leave a power vacuum in the wake of their stinking brown noses.
At the generative essence for society, if we don't have a diversity of cultural strategies amongst strong men, we have a power vacuum of self-destruction. That is the bottom line.
The America I admired was the isolationist John Wayne, Wild West independent man and family stereotype. I don't know to what extent that ever really existed, but that is my personal archetype.