What 'fur babies,' 2D boyfriends, and 'sharenting' tell us about the West's future

Discussions about demographic decline in the West tend to focus on mass immigration, with good reason. Debates over borders, assimilation, and the so-called “Great Replacement” dominate political discourse across Europe and America, often framed as a demographic transformation imposed by elites.But there is another kind of "replacement" under way — one that appears far less imposed and more self-managed. Across much of the developed world, societies are suppressing the primal biological imperati...