Ascetic on parenthood and partnership
Former PASOK MP Dr. Thanos Askitis sparked online controversy by stating that childless people with wealth remain poor, contradicting modern leftist views favoring individualism and voluntary childlessness.
A recent statement by psychiatry PhD holder Dr. Thanos Askitis, former MP of PASOK, has resurfaced among leftist commentators online, in which he stated that “The person who doesn’t have children remains poor in their life. Having a million in the bank and sleeping alone at night means you are lacking.”
They were horrified by the fact that a leftist socialist intellectual with diplomas and awards like Mr. Askitis dared to raise the issue that the best practice for a person’s life is childbearing and marriage-partnership, since this comes into complete contradiction with the demands of the modern left for individualism, libertarian and ephemeral relationships without duration, and voluntary childlessness so that “everyone can enjoy their life freely without obligations,” as well as the replacement of children with domestic animals that suffer within the four walls of an urban apartment.
Lately we’ve been hearing even more extreme positions from the left, such as from its “serious” social scientists, who publicly call on women in an extreme feminist delirium to never have children in their lives, either so as not to environmentally burden nature […], or in a ludicrous attempt at self-victimization of our race—yes, we read this too!—to reduce or eliminate the European race from the planet, because it is supposedly responsible for oppression, violence, imperialism, slavery, authoritarianism, exploitation against others.
However, isn’t it terribly contradictory for leftists to call for a lifestyle (childlessness) that, if their own parents had adopted it, they themselves would not exist to express it?
Isn’t it extremely anti-social that the left, which was once the cradle of thought about communitarianism and solidarity, is seriously calling on people not to commit long-term and is rabidly attacking the institution of marriage by promoting the opposite view from Mr. Askitis: that if you sleep alone in bed, you are “plenty, you have your peace and quiet.”
How is it possible that such a natural and instinctive act of infinite love as motherhood and childbearing provokes repulsion?
Why must the model of the modern person be childless, sterile, solitary and “happy in their individual freedom,” instead of promoting the model that has functioned naturally for millennia: parent of many children, partnered, organic member of society, enjoying happiness through their contribution to their family, their children, their community, their nation?
