Some of you people really are stupid, exactly the examples of mediocrity I was talking about.
I have nothing against people who want kids, to be honest, but when they think they are contributing something great to society, that remains to be seen. If their kids go on to become truly great individuals, like the next great writer, the next great engineer, the next great scientist, or something along those lines, then you've accomplished something with your life, indirectly, just by encouraging the dreams of that kid and developing them into what they became. There is something admirable to be said for that. I certainly feel that way about my mom, who never accomplished anything directly great with her life, but was an inspiration to me and a great human being nonetheless. I hope to honor her memory through what I do, and I will. She will have given the world greatness, and that's something more than what most people can say.
But to continue an endless string of bearing offspring, none of whom ever accomplish anything but becoming tools, makes you really a worthless individual. If you have kids, and they all work at Home Depot or they're accountants or they're sales people, whatever, what have you given the world? Nothing. Just more tools. Just more people I can hire to make me money and put them to work so I can buy another Ferrari or a better vacation house or a bigger condo. If those kids then have more tools for kids, this chain just continues and all you've done is glorify better individuals by giving us tools to use in pursuit of our success.
At some point, that chain must end and there has to arise someone who makes it all WORTH IT. If eight generations of people never did anything truly great, and by that I mean historically great because that's what matters -- your name remembered -- but then along comes someone like Steven Spielberg, at least you can say all of those people didn't live for nothing. Finally, at the end, they were links on a chain to someone great. That counts for a lot. But otherwise what's the point? Just to continue humanity? For what greater goal? As Nietzsche said, "A goal is lacking." There has to be a goal, a purpose to which this reproduction leads, and that purpose can only be greatness. That is how society takes a leap forward, through great men.
The way some of you think, it's obvious you were raised in a way that makes you have no great ambitions, no great goals or pursuits, and you will consequently never be remembered. You will just enjoy, if you're lucky, peacable lives where nothing noteworthy really happens, with medium ups and downs, but nothing spectacular. If that satisfies you, so be it, more power and money and fame for the rest of us.
My dad raised me to be hard-working and ambitious, and that's more than you lot can say. Wanting a family and raising nose miners is not ambitious, it's mediocre, and that is why no one will remember your names.