@MentORPHEUS

The issue that I think you're speaking to is a difference in time frames and localizations. Ultimately the traditions that have survived into the modern age have are Lindy in their main constituent elements. Meaning that they adapted to support the elements of humanity that survived and when evaluating these elements Family comes far before sin (there is gray between those of course).

Its considerably more difficult to build and sustain a positivity than it is to be negative, this is how culture evolves, when applied to Darwinism this means that the "Strong survive" in our case the mentally, physically and spiritually strong. Such human conditions are what tradition aims to maintain no matter whether its in Islamic countries or Christian ones they both structure themselves to foster the next generation and create a sustainable environment for their population. In this environment is where a man with options finds himself today and given the choice between allowing his genetic lineage to be extinguished and starting a family to contribute to humanity the choice is clear.

I'll try to answer your specific questions/comments below:

Disagree. Many do "end up" there but what would the percentages look like if you excluded all unintended or "accidental" (from the man's perspective) from the reckoning?

Likely the same. Given the human need to survive, reproduce and guarantee the survival of ones children/family.

Everything he wants and can do.

This usually entails an empty existence where a man gets what he wants but does not want what he gets.

Which tradition?

Usually its fairly apparent in a given locale but all tradition supports the same Darwinistic goals and then some.

The current environment favors ability to adapt over adherence to what used to work.

This is a myth at the level I'm speaking to. Consider what it means to succeed over a long term. Shrinking this timeframe (which is what happens when someone is being influenced) is how people get swindled into decisions that don't serve them over time.

Instead of following, have tradition-espousing potential leaders around here ever considered founding the traditions of tomorrow with your beliefs and behaviors today?

I recommend investigating further what this "following" is also I don't know what "here" refers to. This site? A context you are referring to? in any case "Founding the traditions of tomorrow" can be an admirable concept though one should take care not to overlap with the existing traditions that work for the sake of neophilia.

I was in my mid-20s when I realized in fullness that I don't have enough years to do everything I want to in life, and that's after I was certain I never wanted kids.

What do you know? (I am referring to the general "you" here). Its likely that when we seriously examine our own knowledge corpus that we find it lacking. This is one reason why Elders must be venerated and their advice works so often on longer scales yet when a modern scientist espouses a finding it only works under clinical conditions and when grant money is on the line.

@-Anteros-

Every man with options ends up starting a family.

Disagree. Many do "end up" there but what would the percentages look like if you excluded all unintended or "accidental" (from the man's perspective) from the reckoning?

What is a man to do with the later half of his life?

Everything he wants and can do. I was in my mid-20s when I realized in fullness that I don't have enough years to do everything I want to in life, and that's after I was certain I never wanted kids.

easily answered by tradition

Which tradition? The problem with following tradition for its own sake is, traditions evolved during eras and under conditions that have long passed and no longer exist. The current environment favors ability to adapt over adherence to what used to work.

Instead of following, have tradition-espousing potential leaders around here ever considered founding the traditions of tomorrow with your beliefs and behaviors today?

@MentORPHEUS

This puts me in the position of arguing whether this is a black swan event with the person who coined the phrase.

Nah, the concept goes back to Juvenal or some other Dead Roman Guy, at least.

"It's not a black swan bro, because we predicted this!"

Everything is predictable. Carrington Event? Had one already. Giant Killer Asteroid from Outer Space? Ask dinosaurs. Yellowstone Supervolcano? Any day now.

Oh, and some things that Taleb calls Black Swan Events aren't really. WWI? It's just the Franco-Prussian War with more steps. The French and English had been fighting each other on various continents for at least a century and a half (French & Indian War, Napoleonic War). And Caesar conquered Gaul in 50 BC. Europeans have been fighting each other on a grand scale and creating and destroying empires for a couple of millenia.

Rise of the internet? I dunno. Any time Kirk or Spock asked the computer for information from "Starfleet Records" that looks a lot like the internet.

Etc., etc.

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