We have constructed a food industry, a medical industry, and an entertainment industry that are not neutral or benign. They are actively incentivized to make us unhealthy, infertile, and fat. These industries don’t accidentally produce decline—they are designed for it. They profit when people are sick, distracted, addicted, and dependent.

Even if we reform the industries and clean up the culture, we face an even greater problem: inertia. People are now decades into a lifestyle of gluttony, passivity, and decline. It’s easy to stay fat, it’s easy to be infertile, and it will never again be hard to afford overeating. From now until the end of history, it will be cheap to destroy yourself.

But a population that is unhealthy, infertile, and fat has no future. Not just metaphorically—it literally cannot reproduce, cannot defend itself, and cannot survive.

This is a bigger threat than an army on your border or a nuclear weapon on your horizon. A society that cannot generate healthy, disciplined, and reproductively competent people is already defeated.

So the question becomes: What are we going to do about it?

We Must Change the Incentives

It is no longer enough to warn or educate. We must rebuild a structure of incentives that rewards health, fertility, and responsibility—and punishes their opposites. We must ensure that the unhealthy, the voluntarily infertile, and the proudly obese do not impose a burden on the rest of us without reciprocity.

These are not policy suggestions. They are predictions. Because as decline accelerates, the motivation to reverse it will become unbearable. And what today seems extreme will soon seem obvious.

Here’s What I Predict Will Happen in the Next 50 Years:

1. The Restoration of the Citizen Militia

A healthy society requires men who are capable of defending it—and that means the return of the citizen militia. Every able-bodied man will be required to participate in defense and emergency preparedness. Physical fitness will be a prerequisite for political participation. No fit body, no vote.

If you can’t run a mile, carry a pack, or shoot straight—why should your opinion carry weight in determining the fate of the nation?

There will likely be a women’s auxiliary as well—supporting logistics, medical services, and civil continuity during crises. But this, too, will require physical competence. Health and capability will be the minimum standard of adulthood.

2. A Fitness Requirement for High School Graduation

Every year of high school will include a mandatory physical fitness exam. Fail it, and you don’t advance. Only those with untreatable conditions will be exempt—and they will not receive a diploma. Education will no longer pretend that a weak body can house a strong mind.

Don’t worry—there will be alternative ways to contribute to the economy, but the era of diploma handouts for the sedentary is over.

3. Having Children Will Be Restored as a Civic Duty

Historically, childbearing wasn’t just a private choice—it was a civic responsibility, like taxation or military service. Single people were taxed for failing to marry; married couples were taxed for failing to have children. This wasn’t oppression—it was civilization maintenance.

You don’t want children? Fine. But don’t expect to have equal say in a future you are refusing to help create.

Those who abstain from parenthood are not necessarily evil or broken. But their choices must be treated honestly—as evidence of non-participation in the long-term project of civilization. And as such, they will be excluded from certain civic privileges, such as voting.

4. An Obesity Tax and the Return of Stigma

Nature is not kind to weakness. Societies that survive stigmatize the unattractive—and there is nothing more unattractive than visible decay through neglect. Fatness is not a neutral condition. It is a symptom of dysfunction.

We will likely impose a fat tax, but more powerfully, we will impose social consequences. People will avoid dating the obese. Employers will quietly disqualify them. And yes—support will be available to help them change, because it benefits all of us when they do.

In extreme cases, mandatory treatment facilities—what you might call “fat jail”—may be established. These will function like quarantine zones for a public health crisis: people will be confined until they are no longer a risk to themselves and others.

You might laugh. But you won’t be laughing for long.

This Is Not a Warning. It’s a Forecast.

The survival of civilization demands we reverse the tide of weakness. And as the stakes become undeniable, even the most coddled societies will begin to take action. What now seems radical will one day seem inevitable.

We will either return to strength, or we will perish.

The good news? The comeback always looks like madness to the decadent. But to those who see clearly, it looks like hope.