Elon Musk’s obsession with reproduction and his claim that AI intimacy will “increase the birth rate” reveals, once again, how deeply our society confuses creation with domination. These men want to populate the planet with new beings, not out of love, but out of an unconscious need to reenact their own unresolved pain — to project the unlived, disowned parts of themselves onto a new generation of victims.
As Alice Miller wrote in Breaking Down the Wall of Silence:
“The need to split off the disquieting parts of the inner self and project them onto an available object. The child’s great plasticity, flexibility, defenselessness, and availability made it the ideal object for this projection. The enemy within can, at last, be hunted down on the outside... For children who have grown up being assailed for qualities the parents hate in themselves, can hardly wait to assign these qualities to someone else so they can once again regard themselves as good, ‘moral,’ noble, and altruistic.”
This is the emotional mechanism behind most of what we call “family values,” “pro-life movements,” and “population concerns.” It is not about protecting life. It is about maintaining the psychic structure of repression — ensuring that the pain which parents cannot face within themselves continues to be inflicted on others.
We live in a world where ICE agents break into people’s homes and zip-tie children, traumatizing them for life — while the same political and religious forces behind such cruelty preach about the sanctity of life. As Alice Miller said so clearly:
“It is, in fact, not surprising to find that those who are both victims and apologists for the use of violence and severity against children are often those who most passionately proclaim their love of the unborn child... It is above all the children already born that have a right to life — a right to coexistence with adults in a world in which, with or without the help of the church, violence against children has been unequivocally outlawed.”
Until we face the reality of the abused and humiliated child, nothing will change. We will keep producing more children, more victims, more scapegoats — to fill the void left by our own repression.
This is why I never wanted to have children. I could never bring a child into a world so unsafe, so ruled by emotional blindness. I have chosen instead to face the inner child within me — to give her the love, safety, and truth that society refuses to give its children.
For the last twenty-five years, since Marty left, I have become asexual. Not out of coldness or bitterness, but out of wholeness. When you face the excruciating pain of your childhood and allow the buried emotions to surface, something shifts forever. You no longer fall in love with illusions or with people who mirror your wounds. You stop confusing attraction with connection.
Falling in love, as the world romanticizes it, is dangerous. It means finding someone who will trigger your deepest unhealed wounds — the perfect person to bring to the surface everything that was once repressed. And most people are not ready for that.
Once repression is resolved, there is no “falling” anymore. There is only love — the quiet, steady presence that arises from within. And if we meet another person who has done the same inner work, we can simply be two beings in love, not “in need.”
That is the intimacy humanity still fears — the kind that cannot be bought, programmed, or replicated by AI.
Until the world stops producing children to carry its unhealed pain, and starts protecting the ones already born, no technology, no religion, no billionaire’s vision will ever save us.
Only truth will.
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