What do you think this holds for the future in terms of the TLM?
Unfortunately I cannot be too positive about this. I wish we had more celibate saints and less people getting married. If marriage even in good times divides a Catholic in half, how much worse is it in our time? I think the small, cult-like environment of trad chapels fosters a sort of romantic intimacy, a coziness that is illusive, and almost everyone gets married off.
Besides gladius and myself I don't know many men committed to the single life, and that is odd considering how much better your chances are to make it to heaven that way, especially now. I just don't know if I'd be able to raise eight or nine kids in this environment of fading Mystery Babylon and keep my soul, for the reasons Matthew describes -- all those ʝʊdɛօ-Masonic nets that have been set for us.
Granted, that is partly because I do not have the vocation to be a patriarch. I'm the classic definition of a loner, an abstracted thinker-type, trying to recover from an irresponsible past. But it will be hard to survive in this toxic, doomed environment even for those who are good patriarchs. God will see His people through, don't get me wrong. I just prefer to take the easier route -- easier in some ways, anyway, if you discount the gut-wrenching episodes of lust and physical burning.
If I were going to get married it would be after the Minor Chastisement. That is when the Earth will need repopulating. I have a feeling NFP will not be a problem then either.