Modern Americans tend to make two mistakes when it comes to understanding culture, and both are tied to individualism.

First, we think about decision-making solely on the individual level, thus failing to consider how cultural trends can take hold.

Second, we seem to think that other people’s personal lives are none of our business — that we shouldn’t have an opinion about how people live, and that how other people live doesn’t affect us.

It makes sense. We’re a very individualistic people. We’re less socialistic and more spread out than most of Europe. We’re more rugged, and we value individual liberty more.

But this individualism can blind us to how things work and how interconnected we really are by nature.

Taylor Swift’s engagement to Travis Kelce brought this to mind.

Along with other commentators, most conservative and some not, I have speculated throughout the Kelce-Swift relationship that if they got married and had babies, it could help slow and possibly even reverse our collapsing birthrate.

Thus, I greeted their engagement with hope.

Pregnancy is contagious. Familism and Natalism are conveyed culturally.
If Kelce and Swift have kids and quickly, this could trigger a Baby........

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