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Hillary Clinton supporters are the happiest people in the world. They are professional. They know what is right and they know what is important.
The happiest type of person in the whole world is the western single woman, who has no children, works at a college, buys new clothes once in a while, works hard, but not too hard, pleases the deans, watches students go into debt, and after work goes home and watches television.
Let the college be an art college. Let this woman vote Democratic.
It does not matter if this woman is vacuous and pursues no art herself. She will be considered intellectual. She will be attractive to intellectuals. If she sneers at Sarah Palin and remains childless, she will be considered the epitome of intellectual suavity, cunning foresight, and classiness. It doesn’t matter what she watches on TV, either. Okay, maybe a little PBS.
This is the mark of the intellectual in the West: not having children.
The surest sign of intelligence is foresight. If one doesn’t have foresight, one can possess all sorts of sharp, persistent, smart qualities, and still be considered a complete rube—anti-intellectual in the extreme.
Having children long ago provided a direct benefit to the farmer who needed help on the farm. Those with foresight had children.
One could have 20 children and be the world’s greatest composer, or philosophe.
Today, in the west, it is not necessary to have children.
The world “must be peopled,” yes.
But still, having children is generally considered “irresponsible.”
Or people have children because children are cute—despite the enormous expense, anxiety, loss of privacy, and work required.
This is not foresight.
The childless woman thinks, “they will not always be cute.”
This is foresight.
This alone makes the childless woman, no matter how shallow, selfish or naivé, a bonafide intellectual, a prize companion of artists and cool people.
The childless woman of contemporary western civilization can be all these things:
A “mom” to lonely grown men.
A “sis” to other childless women.
A “daughter” to older men and women.
A “helpmate” to starving artists.
A “comfort” to despairing, divorced people.
So why should a smart, engaging, giving person have children?
There is nothing better than to go home every night, boringly scrolling through Pinterest on the train, and then curl up with milk and cookies in front of the TV.
Sure, the militarized West is suffering from depressing population decline.
The richness of the symbol of the childless woman is worth it, however.
This uncanny symbol might be called the Hillary Clinton phenomenon.
This is not to say that every childless woman is just like Hillary. But the odds are very good they will support Hillary.
Hillary is the greatest female symbolic force in Western intellectual circles.
As long as the focus is on “can-do” Hillary—as long as her lone child and husband are kept tactfully out of sight—she can be a Big Bank, Soft Machine, New World Order, Republican—and still be considered a Democrat, because she enjoys this great mystical, symbolic status: Mother to All—Mother to None.
A powerful symbol with far-reaching consequences. Personally, she can be (and usually is) empty and dull, a bland comfort to all; but this is preferred. The symbol almost requires it.
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