Outsourcing everything

We will be made to accept and even extol surrogacy

I can't remember who (just as well, don't tell me if you know, it doesn't matter, but she is real, or claims to be), but there is a beautiful woman on social media who presents herself as having a full (Catholic!) prayer life, a close relationship with her many children, a high-powered career, and a beautifully taken-care-of home.

She responds to the question, “How do you do it all?” with this gem:

I outsource everything except the sex.

Yes, I get it! It’s tongue-in-cheek.

As a wealthy person, she can pay for help for just about everything. I have nothing against doing so, in a moderate fashion. Get help cleaning the house? If you can afford it, maybe you should (though there are downsides for regular people, as I pointed out here.)

When I read her little joke, though, I immediately thought — be careful what you say.

(By “this” he means hyperemesis gravidarum, extreme morning sickness, which is indeed terrible.)

Note well: the mention of surrogacy.

Don’t worry — I don’t think this is a real account, hence the redacting. It seems to be pure influencing, and not very successful judging by his interaction stats, at that. I take it as emblematic of subtle messaging, of the post-advertising realm where products and services aren’t so much hawked as just implied to be indispensable, until demand responds.

Add up these messages from the negative side (why not simply pay for what you need — outsource it, so to speak — rather than take on the risk yourself?) and from the putatively positive side (two men can purchase a baby) and soon you have people thinking… why not? Why not just traffic in human flesh if that’s what it takes?

Let’s not be naïve.

We have seen this sort of influencing bring ideas from virtually unthinkable and definitely repugnant — like sodomy, same-sex “marriage”, the mutilation of children known as “transing the kids”, and Satan-worship — to the mainstream, to the point of being mandated if they can swing it. Trends that were pooh-poohed as “not even reflecting 1% of the population so why are you worried” are now forced on us as normal (while the normal becomes the object of derision).

Not unrelatedly, these trends also represent profitability for certain sectors.

There’s a limit to how much you can monetize a man and a woman getting married and having babies the old-fashioned way. There is no limit to how much you can monetize the corruption of that innocent way of life.

The IVF industry — and it is a money-making enterprise — is, like all industries, looking to increase its market share, which at the moment is relatively modest. In order to do this, its promoters have to generate demand for something that in theory, after all, can be had for low cost and is a normal, natural impulse of human nature. Reproduction, in case anyone has forgotten, is one of the two most fundamental aspects of being a living creature, the other being taking in nutrition!

Of course, this industry benefits from a confluence trends in society, as it promotes them, mostly later marriage after years of hormonal disruption via the Pill and other toxicities.

But even more, the IVF industry is vastly indebted to a society that has long striven to remove the the good of marriage and childbearing and to replace it with a utilitarian, mechanistic, and even nihilistic way of looking at the body and its ends. At the same time, our society claims to be against all suffering, though it has no pity on the slaves it creates in its effort to eradicate it for the prosperous.

Anyway, my point is simple: increasingly we will see overt and covert “reasons” to use IVF and surrogacy, most of them not even trying to be about infertility, but simply matters of “doing it all” and “having it all” and outsourcing all — every one of — the things that interfere with those goals.