What did you mean by Post-Natalism earlier?

 Natalism is the belief that birth is always good, it is the root of the pro-life current in the modern United States. It is the mechanism by which capitalist systems ensure they maintain heavy rates of return on their most important resource- human bodies, and the labor therein. The nuclear family has been weaponized in this pursuit, enshrined in law and heavily centered in any state-sponsored or -allowed media, culturally encoded and patterned to the point where people believe it is the only way things could possibly be done. And all of this conflicts with the core fact that babies actually fucking suck.

There are exactly zero situations that are improved by the introduction of a screaming shit-factory, they are at their best and most loved when they’re asleep, not doing any actual baby things like screaming or vomiting. Their presence in public is a constant nuisance, most of their futures end in alienation-driven shootings or ecocide, and dumb motherfuckers will never stop bringing them into movie theaters.

And so, anti-Natalism seems like the natural position, but actually that fucking sucks too, shut the hell up.

The anti-Natalist movement itself is rooted in moral judgements which place the same undue importance on the subject in question. To claim that Birth is Bad and seek to impose your will wholesale is as much folly as to claim that Birth is Good and seek to impose your will wholesale, as can be seen the ineffective abortion bans of the United States- people will go to incredible lengths to preserve their physical life and birth is a direct threat to that, whereas many others seek to preserve a sort of spiritual/ancestral life by spawning and propagating. What we see now are competing currents within the wider industrial milieu- the discussion of whether you get more return from focusing on the nuclear family model or if it is wiser to diversify investments and monetize those who wish to escape the system. Neither of these answers fully satisfy me, any systems of industrialized reproduction provide massive impediments to my well-being in the simple physical form of ever-present creatures capable of causing hearing damage or overwhelming limited sensory capacities, the very production of which takes lives at an alarming rate.

What need have I for the supposed benefits that come with these dangers, the assurances of fulfillment and propagation through industrial reproduction, when I hope to see Singularity and Immortality? My children will be digital patterns, self-replicating virusforms feeding off spare information in the datasphere. They will be ideologues patterning behavior in ways understood instinctually and intuitively rather than consciously. There are other paths in the undergrowth, you need only seek them out and leave behind the comfort of the routine underfoot.

The current family-form is nothing to me, a social construct produced by and for the state, a social relation given mystical significance and power by way of state proceeds. It is a piece of tax paperwork that the state has dedicated holidays to. The idea that the blood of the covenant runs thicker than the waters of the womb is not a new or radical one, but the state maligns it as such just the same. My conception of family is a purely material one, one in line with the reality of any other property dynamic - they are those that you are willing to defend with violence. Family is itself a form of theft, the seizing of another’s autonomy and then aligning them to your tribal core.

And so we are left with the task of finding a label to distinguish rejection of both propagation and negation- leading us to post-natalism, a blanket term seeking to fill the seeming void outside of the natalist dichotomy’s monopoly until we can drop natal from the discussion entirely.