Displaying individual stupidity is what "America's Funniest Home Videos" does but so much more hilarious and quite frankly scarier than inadvertent crotch kicks from three year olds is the macro scale of government stupidity.
Here's the background: The birth dearth in Russia has achieved such calamitous proportions that Russian Emperor-for-eternity Vladmir Putin is responding with what can only be termed something so mind bogglingly crazy that the entire continent might have to be fitted with a strait jacket. This is the kind of stupidity that would embolden alien attacks if there were actually aliens.
Low birthrates have put the future of the entire country in doubt. So, given the knowledge that the entire country doesn't have enough babies to support older unemployed Russians, Putin is recruiting older and unemployed former boy band members to solve that. Yup. He’s calling on Boyz II Men to woo Russian women into the bedroom and eventually into the maternity ward. Yes. Read that again and somehow accept the devastating truth that a nuclear power is calling on a former boy band group to save the day. This doesn't just defy logic it genetically modifies logic to grow arms so Putin can twist them behind its back and make it cry.
Breitbart reports:
With Russia's population having suffered a devastating decline in recent years, president Vladimir Putin is looking for new ways to promote his fertility campaign, to get Russian couples to have more sex and more kids. Putin's latest attempt to inspire men and women comes just before Valentine's day, as the Western R&B trio Boyz II Men will perform a selection of their classic and new romantic ballads in a concert in Moscow on February 6. Rumors are that they may write a new song about Moscow.
This is like calling 911 and getting Miley Cyrus.
You know, not for nothing, but maybe this is a lesson in why governments shouldn't kill 20 million of their own people? And now you've got to admire that same government now taking it upon itself to replace their missing numbers. It's like OJ looking for the real killer?
The Russian government has long promoted the contraception culture and has been surprised that increases in contraception have led to a country where the average woman has reportedly had seven abortions. Hey, take a note, when you tell men and women they can have consequence-less sexual relations they don't expect consequences. And they'll do some pretty terrible things to avoid those consequences especially when those consequences cry a lot, wear diapers, and require constant attention and love.
In recent years, Putin has tried paying women to have babies, he banned U.S. adoptions, and even gave medals to women for giving birth. But it hasn't worked. Only one thing can save Russia now. It's Christianity. I know. I know. Christianity is just about the one thing that's less popular than Boyz II Men right now but life-affirming Christianity, on the other hand, will actually work. Until Russians see babies as a gift from God and not a product of the sultry R &B sounds of Boyz II Men, this birth dearth will continue. Until they see life as good and not just a good because it enables governments to continue but as a good in and of itself, they invite continued calamity and ultimate destruction.
But something tells me that a return to Christianity will be resisted. Hey, they can always try New Kids on the Block.
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Where did you get the 7 abortions on average statistic from?
With even the Orthodox Church back tracking on contraception (so I’m told) I think it’s Catholicism they need. More particularly Putin needs to get the Russian Government to ban abortion and contraception. But a falling birthrate is not Russia’s only problem: they’ve huge problems with drug and alcohol abuse and a high HIV infection rate (associated with intravenous drug use). Pray for Mother Russia!
Dan Man,
Bradley Mattes, president of the International Right to Life Federation, was quoted about that in LifeSiteNews.com.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/study-higher-contraception-rates-associated-with-higher-abortion-rates-in-r
Or Mother Russia might go the way of Western Europe and become Islamicized (is that a real word?). Those folks don’t hesitate to “be fruitful and multiply.” Sometimes an invasion doesn’t require armies massed at the border; it requires a non-contraception mindset and a few decades of patience.
“Be of good cheer” (John 16:33)
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I understand that you are an American patriot and, therefore, anti-Russian. I respect that. However, this has the unfortunate consequence of blinding you to the fact that Vladimir Putin is, actually, one of the last and greatest Christian leaders in the world. Putin has the support of the Russian Orthodox Church (whose current leadership, while not perfect, has had numerous kind words of support for Pope Benedict when he was attacked by the world for defending the faith), he has prosecuted and put to jail hysterical anti-Christian activists who desecrated an orthodox church, outlawed LGBT propaganda towards the youth, he’s the only one defending Christian Syrians while Obama and other Western leaders support the triumph of the islamic fundamentalist rebellion which wishes to exterminate Syrian Christians, went to Paris to venerate the Holy Crown of Thorns that is guarded in the crypt of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and so on.
I would much rather live in a country ruled for life by Christian Czar Vladimir Vladimirovitch than 4 years in a country ruled by anti-Christian leaders like Obama or Cameron or Hollande.
Hey Matthew do you have any other groups that might help. Barry White and John Coltrain’s music could be played in the plazas. Perhaps someone could come up with a top 10 of existing bands to help out poor Putin.
So for better or ill, we see Putin embrace the Church and promote family and children. Our own country now has enshrined abortion into a religious persecuting law and there are four pets for every child in the country. Yes, your derision is so well placed.
So you’re saying, in order for them to have New Kids on the Block, they need to go in only One Direction? Those Boyz to Men had best be Hanson…
Running out of combox…
Funny article, but the wording is a bit unfortunate at times. For example, the phrase you were searching for is “consequence-free”, not “consequence-less”.
In addition, one problem with prescribing Christianity as a solution to Russia’s problems is that the Russian state has enshrined a very superficial Christianity. I don’t mean this as a criticism of the Orthodox Church; not at all! It’s rather a problem of the man on the street, opposite of the problem in the West. We have a superficial religious observance that is emptied by the worst sort of sophistication; theirs is a superficial religious observance that is emptied by a curable superstition.
Ordinary Russians live in a culture where the State not only rewards immoral lifestyles (I don’t mean sexual lifestyles only, but also the unrestrained pursuit of mammon), it abandons them to the predations of the successful, and looks with suspicion, if not outright hostility, on the sort of local organizing that the Catholic Church lauds as subsidiarity. Check out the recent article in the Washington Post on this matter.
There is a deep hunger in the West for love, but our cultures have forgotten both what love is, and how it is rewarding. Sadly, that has infected the East as well, and just like Communism, has had a far quicker and more savage effect than it has had here.
Serious point well and humourously made, and I would add a further one. Putin likely believes that his strategy will work and that is even scarier because he thinks that such a ‘popular’/entertainment-type strategy could bring about a change in peoples’ actions; actions whose consequences are profound and usually deliberated over very carefully. On the other hand when one sees the use of actors, musical groups, etc. to promote political agenda here in our country, maybe he is just borrowing an idea from us and it could be equally as effective.
People are not going to give up their birth control pills and abortions any time soon. Reckless pursuit of pleasure is simply too much for most people to resist. Laws to restrict artificial contraception won’t work. A black market would quickly develop. People must willingly conform to God’s Natural Moral Law. Anything Caesar produces will be ineffective. The Russian population will continue to shrink drastically, a long with the rest of the world. World population will peak and then drop drastically mid century. The only way this plague of birth control and abortion will be defeated is when the population collapses to such a low level there are not enough people to man the pill factories and abortion clinics. The hands of time will be turned back as the slate is wiped clean of all those fools who think these things are good. Life will be very difficult and all these modern conveniences will be a distant memory. This Culture of Death is an abomination to God and will not stand. Only those who hold to ALL of the 2,000 year old Catholic teachings will survive. Other Christian denominations may come close, but all others miss one important social teaching or another. Religions that don’t teach a complete and total pro-life, pro-family doctrine will perish. God help us.
wat happen to one of the boy2men he is miss out the grower i wnt to knw why
it is difficult to separate the good from faith in Jesus.
secular governments have tried to do it since Pentecost Sunday and to the best of my knowledge none have succeeded.
Way off the mark here.
Russia is fast becoming more Christian than the US or Western Europe. You have a lot of catching up to do about the changes in Russia since JPII consecrated Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1984.
The US and Western Europe are rushing head-long into secularism, relativism and apostasy while the Russian government is outlawing homosexuality, prosecuting those who offend the religious sensibilities of the people (that rock band), providing gov’t money for the maintenance and rebuilding of churches, placing chapels on warships, starting albeit slowly to introduce laws lessening gov’t support of abortion in their health plans, etc.
Meanwhile, the Pope has set up a new dicastry to re-evangelize the US and Europe, areas that have forgotten the Gospel and become neo-pagan. And the Pope recently used the term ‘practical atheist’ no doubt with the US and Europe in mind.
God bless you.
Apparently you do not understand Russian history and culture at all. Your point is completely lost in all of your ignorance
Gosh Anony, that crystal ball of yours is pretty bleak. So why has the global population doubled to almost 7 billion since abortion and birth control became widely available?
Have they tried banning abortion? Or even restricting it? Streanthening the family? Promoting family in ads, events, benifits, ect? Limiting abortion inducing drugs? ANYTHING the normal human would think of???? Yeah, the root of all these things is faith and the nation cant be completely healed without God, but common sense, even secular comon sense, should point in the general direction of these things! Heck, even dishonest and evil propaganda, like putting people with many childen into powerful places without considering merit and for no reason whatsoever would be more effective than boys bands! I thought Russia was more creative than this.
Hmm. Bob.
if that is true then Russia deserves a little credit.
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