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American Thinker:

Posterity was once a central concept of American Civilization.  We sacrificed our welfare, even our lives, for the sake of future generations, especially for our descendants unto the remote reaches of time. This concept was so important, that it appeared in the very first sentence of the Constitution, which sought to ’secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.’

Posterity is more concrete than the ‘future.’  We are connected to posterity. It derives from us, and from the difference we made, during that brief span of time encompassing our lives. The Constitution refers to ‘our Posterity,’ meaning something which belongs to us, or maybe more properly, something which is part of us — the part of us which lives-on after we die. Posterity is of us, but far greater and more important than any of our individual lives. Posterity is worth dying for. Such a death confers a bit of immortality.

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Posterity began to go into a severe decline beginning, quite naturally, in the 1960s, with the rise of the ‘me-generation.’ Deferring experiences, pleasures, or achievements for the sake of others became unfashionable. Living in the moment, and for oneself, became ‘what’s happening.’

The big white elephant in the living room here is race.  The reason that the spirit of “our posterity” is in decline is because we don’t anticipate that it is “ours.”  A treasonous, quisling set of dominant institutions, including governments themselves, big corporations, and just about every cultural and educational institution that matters, is essentially impressing a policy of white racial dispossession on the United States of America.

It’s no wonder white birthrates in America and (as AT implies in this article) around the world are low.  Whites have no subconscious confidence in their racial future.