Should I Have Kids in This Economy?

More people than ever are deciding not to have children, and the reason is almost always the world, the economy, the climate, the narrowing future. This episode honours that question as an act of love before it turns it: is it really about the world, or about whether you're steady enough to shape another consciousness when you can barely hold your own together? The world has never once been good enough; no child in the history of the species was born into a safe time. What a child needs was never a good world, it's one adult solid enough to be a place to stand. So the useful question isn't "is the world fit for a child," it's "am I becoming someone fit to raise one", and unlike the economy, that's something you can actually work on.

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To explore the work, start here: https://starthere.codexofthearchitect.com/go/pod-502

It opens with a free book, Before Approaching the Threshold. The Atlas names the pattern running your life in a single sitting. It is built from twenty years in the chair and the thirty-three books of Michael Lauria, a qualified therapist, author and philosophical mythologist. It takes about forty-five minutes, costs nothing, and ends in a written Record of that pattern, drawn from your own words. It is not therapy and not for crisis.

How this page was made: the text is the episode's own show notes from The Architect Speaks, written by Michael Lauria.