The tweet about millennials becoming middle aged, and only seeing a world in decline really hit home for me. I'm 41, and I got a glimpse of American pride and optimism in my youth. Joined the Marines, and then contracted for a while, and fighting a useless war ground me into dust. Watching the debacle and degeneracy of the Obama regime wasn't enough to wake me up completely but made me realize we were on a bad road.
By the time of the COVID bullshit, the insane acceleration of social justice and gender/tranny shit, and after watching everyone seemingly lose their goddamn minds I lost whatever respect I had for the masses, for my long-held ideals of populism and libertarianism, I felt compelled to take the shadow box my wife made for me and throw it in the trash.
I was embarrassed that I didn't see what was going on sooner. I was embarrassed I was a pawn in Globohomo's game.
My wife stopped me from trashing it, and I suppose I'm glad she did. It still, sometimes, brings good memories of youth, virility, brotherhood and camraderie and strength. That being said, I feel like a tired, out of shape old man.
I feel every ounce of the fatigue and exhaustion you describe, and I couldn't have put it better. I'm still trying to figure out the "do something" part and struggle with just giving up. "There might be hope for the youth, but not me", my defeatist side says.
Eh, sorry, just griping, but wanted to let you know that the article got to me.
Yeah bro I think we all went thru the same emotional journey, at different times and different speeds.
I was so proud of this country as a kid! And now it's like a shuffling zombified corpse.
Anyway it gets easier when you emotionally process the grief, and then forgive yourself, move on, overcome the shame and feelings of loss, lack of spiritual meaning... then reorient towards a bigger goal.
Somehow find a way to get excited about the future that's possible.
Right now is actually the hardest time, because we're in a transitional period, the brief twilight of rampant decay between the Old Equilibrium and the New Equilibirium.
What I mean by this is that, 20 years ago, you lived in a functional community. If you were having trouble, you could ask for help, maybe friends or family could lend a hand. Now that's gone. We just have an adversarial government which hates us and tries to crush not only White Christian men, but also anyone who is strong or self-reliant or aspirational. It's just an ugly, dysfunctional culture.
One productive person, such as a scientist who tries to do his job, is an inherent embarrassment to all the fake jobs people who are just taking a paycheck and pretending to work. So anyone who tries to build useful products, to seek a better future, is seen as a threat and is torn down by everyone next to him.
Right now, people like us who are "Extremely Online" are 3-5 years ahead of the curve. Normies will wake up, on a slower timeline, to the realization their government is trying to destroy them.
So what this means is, you get all the negatives of living under a hostile tyranny, but none of the positives — common people are just kind of dazed and confused, deer in headlights, frightened cattle walking into a meatgrinder. You don't get the 3rd world apathy of Latin America, where people agree the government is corrupt, so everyone looks the other way as you pay bribes, break rules, skirt taxes, whatever. You're surrounded by prison guards from above, snitches from below.
The future will involve low-level friendships, brotherhoods between trusted friends. None of that has built up yet, and anything overt immediately gets infiltrated by government informants and turned into a criminal investigation.
So, right now, just keep your head down — just build for the future, look out for your family, make money, raise your kids, etc.
The future is to organize around job networks — all of the productive white guys who can't get a job, all that talent has to go somewhere. "Exit" and "New Founding" are both organizations which are trying to get rich by tapping into the suppressed talent pool.
But remember, keep your head down, look out for your family.
William, I think you would enjoy this essay by Bronze Age Pervert which talks about the failure of American leadership, and the Frog culture that's formed as a result:
Are you me? 41 but ex-Army. Fed instead of contractor. Different journey, same outcome. Feeling tired and broke.
I’ve spent a good bit of time in Latin America and it has really contextualizad my understanding of where we are headed. Things are going to get weirder.
I restack-quoted so many passages from this most excellent poast! You do a wonderful job articulating what so many people have sensed but struggled to formulate about the problems of postmodern life. A really masterful job tying together all these different but related threads and analyzing what the big picture means. One of the best things I've read in a while!
Thanks Daniel, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Also I'm gratified you shared the vision I had for this piece, and could see what I was driving at. There was a creative risk in designing the piece this way and I thought it would work but you never know until people actually read it, whether the aesthetic feels the way it's supposed to.
I don't think anyone can truly sum up everything going wrong and broken in the West today... but damn it if this doesn't come the closest I've seen. Very impressive. There's a lot of great stuff collected from Twitter here, too.
There's really too much to even touch on since there's so much great content here, but, suffice to say, excellent job, here.
Most of what you're saying isn't wrong, but this is six to eight different articles smashed together ramshackle. Nothing is substantiated in a serious way. Most of it is pronouncement and insinuation. To use Ryan Faulk's old term, you are a "sayer of things."
If you are embedded in the dissident e-right, much of your subject is either taken for granted or a literal repost of other people's greatest hits. If you aren't embedded in the e-right much of it would be impenetrable or nonsense. A friendly audience will take the whirlwind of pronouncements and unexamined graphs for granted, while everyone else is backing away slowly from the stream of inchoate concepts. I am sure there will be much acclaim in reposting other people's winner tweets and green texts.
The original topic of your article; moral authority, pornography, young men and economic explanations, is lost in a sea of "but wait, there's more!" There would be an excellent article in proving your points that porn is a cope for economic ruptures and decay.
There is a good article to be written here. If you had restrained yourself to examining and criticizing Hawley's statements, you might have achieved something more enduring. What you have at present is a wide ranging criticism of liberal modernity that falls short of completing the job on every count. It fails in this way, not because your conclusions are wrong, necessarily, but because you have cast your net so wide you can't haul in the fish. Put more tritely, you've bitten off more than you can chew and taken the reader along with you for every feverishly over heated bite.
This is an excellent point. The essay shares the same form and behavior as leftist struggle sessions: if you agree with the premises emotionally you will nod your head, fill in the multitude of gaps and feel emotionally satiated, but if you don't agree, or just poke and pull at some threads, it pretty rapidly starts to unravel into a pile.
I've been struggling for a while to understand why so many people find it appealing, and as best as I can tell that is why.
I'll explain the aesthetic design principles to you if you're curious Doctor Hammer, and why they resonated. If not, you're welcome to criticize me and this essay, I don't take it personally.
That would be an interesting explanation, thank you. I would not be at all surprised to find there are many forms of argumentation or writing that simply do not appeal to me for reasons that have to do with me and me alone :D
Obviously I use a lot of nonsequiturs. This particular aesthetic is based on a blogger from the Golden Age of Blogs, called the Last Psychiatrist.
He had a standard technique, where he would tell a story in part one, a different story in part two, a different story in part three, part four would jump back to a previous section, then part five would take all these random threads and combine them into a stunning epiphany.
It's kind of like the final scene in The Usual Suspects, when the detective assembles all the clues and realizes everything the villain told him was a lie, and secretly the lone surviving witness was the criminal mastermind.
The Last Psychiatrist was a huge influence on most of the Extremely Online frogs, so a lot of people understand what I'm doing.
The presentation style doesn't fit a conventional style... but when you read a classic article in proper format, it's very predictable, and therefore boring, because the audience can sense the rhythm of the piece, even if they don't know the exact data points you plan to present. You will start with a thesis, then provide 3 examples, then expand on the argument, cite data and sources, then resolve with a Call to Action. Technically this is the "correct" way to write, but in a standard article, I can read the headline and guess about 80% of the content. Often I read an interesting headline, and if you squint, the majority of the essay is indistinguishable from hundreds of other essays — maybe there will be 3 cool sentences per every thousand words, or so.
A standard article is read in 5 minutes, it's enjoyable, then almost instantly forgettable. That's the business model of modern content farms... churn and burn.
But economics dictates that sort of low-effort, factory assembly line production, where every writer has to write 4 short essays per week to stay relevant in an oversaturated digital landscape of thousands of competing news sites.
I'm not getting paid anything... I'm free to ignore business logic and craft something which makes zero commercial sense.
This article was crafted, and refined over a period of roughly eight months...
what I sought to create was one single Primer where people could read it, and get a macro and micro understanding of what modern life is dysfunctional, and see how all the puzzle pieces fit together, and how the modern world was created. That's hugely ambitious... but an important distinction here is that, this Substack is intended to be read, reread, and digested in 3-7 viewings. It's not intended for anyone to read, start to finish, in one session... purely because the massive, bulky length.
Although several people have told me they read it in one morning, and loved it. So, I can create the product I want, and the reader can choose to consume it in whatever fashion they want, even if it's not what I intended, I lose control of the piece as soon as it's published.
That makes sense. Now that you mention it, I do recognize the similarities in style between you and TLP, and indeed I stopped reading him after a few years, in part because he stopped updating very frequently and I got out of the habit of checking his site, but also because his posts started losing my interest. I personally prefer more substance than style, and while a Usual Suspects style move (great movie choice, by the way!) can work, dancing between seemingly unrelated stones in a stream before getting to the other side and seeing how it is all related, I find it immensely frustrating when those stones turn out to be merely foam floaters that don't hold up. The style in that case demands a rock solid foundation for the reader to make it to the reveal on the other side.
Thanks for taking the time to write up this (and the other two!) responses.
"you have cast your net so wide you can't haul in the fish. Put more tritely, you've bitten off more than you can chew and taken the reader along with you for every feverishly over heated bite."
"Nothing is substantiated in a serious way...To use Ryan Faulk's old term, you are a "sayer of things."
Yeah bro, you're reading a blog... it's a discussion, that's kind of the whole value proposition. Do you go to a restaurant and complain that they're distributing food?
The correct analogy would be the quality of the food. You set out a premise for your work and what you delivered on that premise is under cooked and mushed together. To carry the analogy, the burger is half sticking out of a pile of mashed potatoes and the whole thing has puffed rice cakes hidden in it for some reason.
I don't think you presented your article as a humble discussion piece. I think you presented it as a serious work of analysis and I will continue to critique it as that for as was long as it exists in its current form. I am unaware of any reason that your work should be uniquely immunized against such critique.
Being a "sayer of things" means not showing your working, nor taking account of your truth claims. It's an acceptable practice in any number of frivolous venues, but you chose to take on the wounds of modern man and the decline of our age, so get used much harsher words than anything you've earned from me.
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I didn't call you a fool. I critiqued your writing in a most accurate and specific way.
I will re-emphasize everything I have described as deficient in your work is fixable and within the abilities you've demonstrated, if you chose to use them. You could order and edit the work properly. You could take account of each of your truth claims with evidence and reason in the body of your work. You could refrain from unnecessary and haphazard quotation.
My intention is not to stop you from writing, but to mark where your work, to date, has fallen short. Good luck and I look forward to your next piece.
I rage read it yesterday and found this comment accurate. The first section really helped me keep my cool. Ironically, I was procrastinating to distract myself from a topic at work, so I had an example of a coping mechanism at hand.
The rest was mostly repetition. I hastily screenshot quite a few sections, because they made me smile. Your strong proclamations about culture being downstream from economics made me think about the link more and. Ultimately however, any feedback system is a circular graph to a degree. It reminded me of the https://thezman.com/ claims about economics being downstream from biology.
Looking at the comment section, you seem egomaniacal for positive bias. As an antidote I'd recommend:
"I rage read it yesterday and found this comment accurate. The first section really helped me keep my cool. Ironically, I was procrastinating to distract myself from a topic at work, so I had an example of a coping mechanism at hand."
I'm confused, I don't understand who you are talking to or what you are saying here.
Very honored, thanks my friend. I wrote most of this in like ten days in December and then was collecting the tweets and photos and just tweaking random sentences during the following months, then I finished the ending 2 sections a couple weeks ago.
Lmao thanks not everything will be this long or spicy, but you know how it is, you try to craft the project "honestly" according to the aesthetic vision and the message to be communicated. Appreciate you bro.
The problem with modern "man" is that quite frankly men have taken to the habit of judging their value based on the opinion of women not other men. This has led to acceptance of many unhealthy things in today's society. Acceptance of quite frankly ludicrous behavior in society that it is man's not women's job to put a stop too.
If you are (or women perceive you to) a leader of men they will give themselves to you. Another wisdom only acquired in my middle age. In a broad sense I think we need to do a better job of providing wisdom for young men, they want it and need it.
The commodification of every aspect of life makes for a war of all against all, a Wind-and-Wolf Age where women sell their bodies online to the very men who in another, better, time would build a home with them and provide for them. God designed men and women as complements to one another; nothing is more fundamentally dysfunctional than having us compete.
The imagery of the rib is profound. There is a term for when a body part spreads beyond its natural function: cancer.
The illusion that women complement men has been shattered; and the Christian - I criticize myself here - deludes himself that the correct woman can be a "suitable helpmate;" she cannot be, even Solomon wrote hundreds of years before Christ that only one in a thousand is any good; and who can find her? The story of Lilith is a story made up by priests too embarrassed to admit Eve is Lilith: the twentieth and twenty-first centuries allowed Her to remove the mask.
Self-deluded Christian men refuse to admit Eve walked away from Adam when he was full of the glory of his creation; and she chose the Serpent: she chose the bad boy, the high status male - more so than the good man - and the more powerful male; who catered to her solipsistic desire to have her own wisdom above Adam: this sin is epigenetic to her very sex.; she even prefers the son of her illicit liaison to that of Adam. The Bible declares Adam was an hundred years old before he once more went into Eve and begat Seth: that was one pissed off man.
I only pity the fact that few I could share this with would be bothered to read its entirety, because the further in I got the more illuminating the work became. But regardless of this, everywhere I look, and to all the corners of the internet I cultivate, I see this same fractal pattern repeating - the same brotherhoods you describe forming, and the same realization dawning. We're on the way to that success. It won't come tomorrow, but what in life is immediate?
I do wonder; what's the point of words, thought, discussion... when we are considering the inevitability of historical forces moving a clear direction, on a scale so much bigger than us. But if nothing else, understanding the macro perspective allows us to come to peace with the volatility and uncertainty of life, and just to relax during chaotic times.
One of the core pillars of the modern system is to keep ordinary people so stressed, distracted, demoralized, and hysterical that they feel too weak to defend themselves. Preventing that offers tremendous personal benefits.
But you can't really educate people who don't want to see it; this reflects the saying that fools are madder at the person who tells them they were tricked, than with the person who tricked them.
🗨 socioeconomic, political, and historical forces ... do not exist as pure abstractions, but become manifest only through the behaviour of human beings; interplay of personalities and social processes.
Because, it is as Vox Day often says, we have the opportunity to plant trees under who's shade we will never sit. The future traditions will be the ones we make. We have the peace and remnant prosperity at the moment to ponder which principles should guide the future so that we and ours can be proactive now, rather than merely reactive forever.
The pondering, the questioning, the imagining must be done if we don't want to become just light skinned africans, living in perpetually short sighted scrabbling for tonight's dinner and maybe some booze while foreigners extract all the wealth from our soil and our bodies.
This is gold on so many levels. It’s funny how what in one generation represents freedom becomes oppression in the following generation. So one must travel light, be nimble and clear-headed to spot the truth, the ever changing truth, burn past ideas when they become stale and fake, and look for the next generation’s path to freedom. It will always be a subtle path at first, hardly noticeable in the wild, much less enticing that the official superhighway, but once seen, impossible to ignore. And what was true before and became evil will become true again, but changed, morphed, mutated, rid of some parts, enriched by others. And follow it we must, if not for us because change is so slow and inertia so powerful that we will not see it fully realised, at least for our children and grandchildren, to leave them mentally ready to understand the world and for them to have a fighting chance to be, at least, content. To sleep well. To be strong. To see far away, understand their own world, and leave their succession as ready as they were.
Postmodern society is so frustrating at times. There is no healthy way to express one's sexuality (honestly, there probably never has been), and we're presented with two extremes: hypersexuality or complete celibacy that men (specifically) feel has been thrust upon them.
Brotherhood is most certainly the answer. I personally love the modern Gen Y/Z aspects of the internet that talk about philosophy and self-improvement. Even though the digital world is never as good as the real one, it still provides the framework for a brotherhood, at least in my opinion.
Maybe this is just the old-school feminist in me, but I also hope that women embrace sisterhood and come together to improve, reflect, and be stronger. Society needs strong women, too.
The answer is to do what you want to do, what feels natural, even tho it's irrational... but just you have to pair classical romance with a sort of cynical paranoia and hyperalert discernment that wasn't necessary in the past, being careful to evaluate whether you are dealing with a woman who shares your dreams of a family, marriage, kids, religion, etc..
Think about it like this... One of the main things we want in life is a beautiful romance. If we let fear persuade us to abandon that dream, well maybe we can play it safe and avoid problems, but we have basically lost in a major area of life by forfeiting the competition before it's even begun. On the other hand, divorce can wreck you in horrific ways. So there's that balance — pursue romance, pursue a family, embrace a sort of reckless idealism, but you have to bring your game and life habits to an unfair, historically abnormal level in order to make it work.
Women will basically conform to the strongest man in their proximity. So if you fix yourself, you will (theoretically) fix your future wife too. Obviously there are some holes in this theory... but it's a useful way to approach relationships.
I had to read this article twice because I was wondering how you spooled this massive yarn until I realized it was as much eulogy as essay, complete with the "we will rise" at the end.
Thanks I don't see it as a eulogy but I think that's a useful angle to interpret this from.
What motivated this piece was listening to Josh Hawley tell men, "Stop watching porn, go romance a wife, losers."
He should know better, but that's what is the socially acceptable critique for him to discuss. He gives terrible advice, the audience claps.
And I thought about that in the broader context — we're living in this confused, stressed, dying civilization. Nobody knows wtf is going on. Dating doesn't work. Jobs barely pay enough to survive. Careers are rare, there's no loyalty from these vast distant corporate multinational conglomerates. Everyone is a replaceable economic unit. And then in terms of leadership... you have Leftists, who are trying to tear civilization down as fast as possible, so they can feed on the ruins.
Then you have Boomer Christian Conservatives who are comfortable, they're kind of disturbed by the social decay of the nation, but they've signed this Faustian bargain which locks them into the fake Economy. All their pensions, stocks, houses, overinflated assets are tied to this monstrous inhuman system, this Ponzi Scheme Engine which can only survive as long as inputs are transformed to outputs, as long as the machine keeps running, and for their pensions, stocks, houses to retain value that ensures their retirement, they need to feed their kids into this Debt Treadmill which grinds them up and destroys them and creates all these sexually dysfunctional blue-haired weirdos.
So I just thought, okay I'm going to write down what's actually happening, talk about the lack of leadership, then move on to the personal suffering that's being ignored, then talk about the historical origins of this dysfunction, map out the rise and fall of civilization, then hint (Fedpoasting) towards the formation of a new culture.
I didn't logically plan this out, I can only see that was the idea in retrospect, it was mostly instinct and a vibe and a compilation of stuff I've been thinking about for years. But that's basically how I created this essay.
Big ideas get better when aged. Fermentation is one of those processes that is truly beautiful, both in the physical and the mental world.
I don't live in the West per se but in one of the vassal states (Philippines) so I'm watching to see what comes next. It's already happening here, to be honest, only about a decade or half of that behind. At least the food's getting better.
I think part of it is simply that we're all dealing with such an endless bombardment of seemingly random information that we have no ability to make sense of. The limits of the actual neurons we are using have been reached, and no artifice of culture (social technology, mental operating systems) or science (technique, mental apps) can help us now.
Everything is so big, so complicated, and so incomprehensible now that everyone is incapable of coping now. I have an essay coming out in three days about how we knew this was happening, just that it was sugarcoated by optimism. I'll ping you when it comes out, but if you see an essay called "Global Paradox 2023", that's it.
It's gotten so bad that I've had to cordon all that stuff off in its own section (in which said essay will appear in time). Each of them is self-contained but builds on the previous, so reading oldest to newest is recommended but not mandatory.
🗨 When they were young, the Baby Boomers broke apart the multi-generational community: untempered youth, wild youth leading itself towards its own ends. Now, they’re doing it again. They have absconded from their duty as old people, which is to be the link between the future and the past—because the world doesn’t have a past anymore, and precious little future either.
🗨 The U.S. has a total G.D.P. of twenty-three trillion dollars, but the assets of all American pension funds are nearly fifty percent larger: thirty-five trillion, a monstrous pile of money accumulated for the sole purpose of allowing Americans to have a nice time when they retire. These pension funds are the biggest players in the financial markets and the biggest investors in every level of the economy.
Was a child of an immigrant. Parents liked to tell me amazing stories about our home country, & I also liked reading & learning about American history & brilliance. My father, especially, was very impressed by the incredible American spirit & hoped his kids would benefit. None of us have, both parents are depressed, we are losing our money: I almost cry sometimes. What a beautiful future turned to chaos.
I especially like the hard realism combined with your determined subtle optimism. There is always a way, and despair is voluntary defeat. That is a very difficult thing to pull off and you present it well.
I am working on a piece covering some of the same material, namely male-female relations. It is easy to become despondent and you cover the reasons why. Women degraded by feminist ideology, the high body counts, the ubiquitous presence of dating apps that distort reality, and the damning statistics. And yet your reminder women are endlessly malleable, that good women exist. And what else can we do except work with what we have? Plus they have become victims of their own nature and are just as caught up in all this as anyone else.
Alas, you are quite wrong. Women tend to have an external locus of control and are herd thinkers. It is a survival strategy unique to women so famous entire fields of study are devoted to it.
Malleability is not negative; it is a neutral observation. It is however easier to manipulate. Women in the workforce almost never strike, for instance. Women as a general rule dislike confrontation and seek resolution via consensus. These are useful traits when managing a family. They are less useful to build empires.
But traits like this, when present in males or females, make for excellent corporate drones who will parrot elite talking points.
Talking of which...
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"Feminism/women's rights have freed women from violent marriages, marital rape and having to stifle our goals and pretend to be inferior to lacklustre men who need women to 'submit' to feel tough."
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A little less than a century ago over 90 percent of young women (in the US and Britain) had access to a man who earned enough to support her when she had children. The number is now under 15 percent.
Today over 85 percent of young women will have to work when they have young children even when the kids are sick, a parent dies or any of the other normal things happen. Feel free to research yourself. It is a stark number, and difficult to spin.
Your championing of a narrative that has reduced your choices and turned many women into corporate slaves is an example of the malleability you think women are not prone to.
A century ago the US, soon followed by the UK, became the first countries ordinary women didn't have to work to have children. Prior to that it was only aristocratic women who could do this. Who do you think manned the textile mills during the industrial revolution? Who do you think the milkmaids were? Young men?
Women have always had to work. The extreme success of Anglosphere countries meant capital accumulated to such an extent fifty percent of the population could focus on non-work activity important to them i.e. raise kids, manage families. The first generation of women who enjoyed this had mothers and grandmothers who had been worked to death.
It is an endless source of fascination that women, the malleable sex, are so easily convinced. Abortion, the ability to end life, is healthcare. Working like a slave is emancipation. Men have always understood most work is drudgery.
The narrative of violent marriages and nonstop rape is fiction. The early feminists were unconcerned about such things. Read their literature, it is a farce. An elite wanted to increase the tax base and cut wages. Women were the vector they used to keep society down.
Finally, look at the happiness stats. They cut through every narrative. For the first time in history, in Western nations, women are now less happy than men. Men's happiness has increased slightly over the last fifty years. Women's has dramatically fallen.
Some demographics are in despair. Record numbers of women are on antidepressents. Even feminists are having to respond to the sharp decline in female satisfaction. None of these things point to women's lives improving. All of the things women value, children, family, relationships, are being taken from them.
Perhaps modernity will work for you, and I hope it does. But as a woman the odds are against it. I wish you luck.
SUMMARY: the past was a shit show. Try being an infantryman at the Somme. No one had it easy.
Remember the criticism of feminism, it myopically focuses on female suffering because it is female nature to not care about male suffering. We provide the security for you to whine about history not being perfect.
And your jaunt through history still doesn't explain why women are now less happy than men, a literal first in history. Only in the West though. The third world with all those bouncing babies seem to be doing fine.
Feminism is a cancer and younger women seem to be waking up to that.
I'm not hoping for anything. You are peddling the fantasy. You are quoting polls published by corporate entities that want women in the workforce for a myriad of reasons, none of which help society. You are very clearly brainwashed.
The hard facts come from the healthcare world. Antidepressant prescriptions, for example. Record highs. All driven by women not men. And none of them are Afghans.
Men understand something you have failed to grasp. For most people work is drudgery. It provides very little satisfaction. In every major study of female satisfaction work and career rank even lower down for women. Almost no women in their 50s or older care about career. Most care only about relationships. This is a consistent finding in every Western nation.
Everything you are telling me is propaganda the feminist's own research actually debunks. I am beginning to think you are an intentional parody, lol.
The tweet about millennials becoming middle aged, and only seeing a world in decline really hit home for me. I'm 41, and I got a glimpse of American pride and optimism in my youth. Joined the Marines, and then contracted for a while, and fighting a useless war ground me into dust. Watching the debacle and degeneracy of the Obama regime wasn't enough to wake me up completely but made me realize we were on a bad road.
By the time of the COVID bullshit, the insane acceleration of social justice and gender/tranny shit, and after watching everyone seemingly lose their goddamn minds I lost whatever respect I had for the masses, for my long-held ideals of populism and libertarianism, I felt compelled to take the shadow box my wife made for me and throw it in the trash.
I was embarrassed that I didn't see what was going on sooner. I was embarrassed I was a pawn in Globohomo's game.
My wife stopped me from trashing it, and I suppose I'm glad she did. It still, sometimes, brings good memories of youth, virility, brotherhood and camraderie and strength. That being said, I feel like a tired, out of shape old man.
I feel every ounce of the fatigue and exhaustion you describe, and I couldn't have put it better. I'm still trying to figure out the "do something" part and struggle with just giving up. "There might be hope for the youth, but not me", my defeatist side says.
Eh, sorry, just griping, but wanted to let you know that the article got to me.
Yeah bro I think we all went thru the same emotional journey, at different times and different speeds.
I was so proud of this country as a kid! And now it's like a shuffling zombified corpse.
Anyway it gets easier when you emotionally process the grief, and then forgive yourself, move on, overcome the shame and feelings of loss, lack of spiritual meaning... then reorient towards a bigger goal.
Somehow find a way to get excited about the future that's possible.
Right now is actually the hardest time, because we're in a transitional period, the brief twilight of rampant decay between the Old Equilibrium and the New Equilibirium.
What I mean by this is that, 20 years ago, you lived in a functional community. If you were having trouble, you could ask for help, maybe friends or family could lend a hand. Now that's gone. We just have an adversarial government which hates us and tries to crush not only White Christian men, but also anyone who is strong or self-reliant or aspirational. It's just an ugly, dysfunctional culture.
One productive person, such as a scientist who tries to do his job, is an inherent embarrassment to all the fake jobs people who are just taking a paycheck and pretending to work. So anyone who tries to build useful products, to seek a better future, is seen as a threat and is torn down by everyone next to him.
Right now, people like us who are "Extremely Online" are 3-5 years ahead of the curve. Normies will wake up, on a slower timeline, to the realization their government is trying to destroy them.
So what this means is, you get all the negatives of living under a hostile tyranny, but none of the positives — common people are just kind of dazed and confused, deer in headlights, frightened cattle walking into a meatgrinder. You don't get the 3rd world apathy of Latin America, where people agree the government is corrupt, so everyone looks the other way as you pay bribes, break rules, skirt taxes, whatever. You're surrounded by prison guards from above, snitches from below.
The future will involve low-level friendships, brotherhoods between trusted friends. None of that has built up yet, and anything overt immediately gets infiltrated by government informants and turned into a criminal investigation.
So, right now, just keep your head down — just build for the future, look out for your family, make money, raise your kids, etc.
The future is to organize around job networks — all of the productive white guys who can't get a job, all that talent has to go somewhere. "Exit" and "New Founding" are both organizations which are trying to get rich by tapping into the suppressed talent pool.
But remember, keep your head down, look out for your family.
William, I think you would enjoy this essay by Bronze Age Pervert which talks about the failure of American leadership, and the Frog culture that's formed as a result:
https://americanmind.org/salvo/americas-delusional-elite-is-done/
Are you me? 41 but ex-Army. Fed instead of contractor. Different journey, same outcome. Feeling tired and broke.
I’ve spent a good bit of time in Latin America and it has really contextualizad my understanding of where we are headed. Things are going to get weirder.
Yeah. It's really distressing to realize that I pine for the halcyon days of the Clinton Administration, of all things. :-/
I restack-quoted so many passages from this most excellent poast! You do a wonderful job articulating what so many people have sensed but struggled to formulate about the problems of postmodern life. A really masterful job tying together all these different but related threads and analyzing what the big picture means. One of the best things I've read in a while!
Thanks Daniel, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Also I'm gratified you shared the vision I had for this piece, and could see what I was driving at. There was a creative risk in designing the piece this way and I thought it would work but you never know until people actually read it, whether the aesthetic feels the way it's supposed to.
I don't think anyone can truly sum up everything going wrong and broken in the West today... but damn it if this doesn't come the closest I've seen. Very impressive. There's a lot of great stuff collected from Twitter here, too.
There's really too much to even touch on since there's so much great content here, but, suffice to say, excellent job, here.
Honored by the kind words, thank you Yakubian Ape.
Most of what you're saying isn't wrong, but this is six to eight different articles smashed together ramshackle. Nothing is substantiated in a serious way. Most of it is pronouncement and insinuation. To use Ryan Faulk's old term, you are a "sayer of things."
If you are embedded in the dissident e-right, much of your subject is either taken for granted or a literal repost of other people's greatest hits. If you aren't embedded in the e-right much of it would be impenetrable or nonsense. A friendly audience will take the whirlwind of pronouncements and unexamined graphs for granted, while everyone else is backing away slowly from the stream of inchoate concepts. I am sure there will be much acclaim in reposting other people's winner tweets and green texts.
The original topic of your article; moral authority, pornography, young men and economic explanations, is lost in a sea of "but wait, there's more!" There would be an excellent article in proving your points that porn is a cope for economic ruptures and decay.
There is a good article to be written here. If you had restrained yourself to examining and criticizing Hawley's statements, you might have achieved something more enduring. What you have at present is a wide ranging criticism of liberal modernity that falls short of completing the job on every count. It fails in this way, not because your conclusions are wrong, necessarily, but because you have cast your net so wide you can't haul in the fish. Put more tritely, you've bitten off more than you can chew and taken the reader along with you for every feverishly over heated bite.
This is an excellent point. The essay shares the same form and behavior as leftist struggle sessions: if you agree with the premises emotionally you will nod your head, fill in the multitude of gaps and feel emotionally satiated, but if you don't agree, or just poke and pull at some threads, it pretty rapidly starts to unravel into a pile.
I've been struggling for a while to understand why so many people find it appealing, and as best as I can tell that is why.
I'll explain the aesthetic design principles to you if you're curious Doctor Hammer, and why they resonated. If not, you're welcome to criticize me and this essay, I don't take it personally.
That would be an interesting explanation, thank you. I would not be at all surprised to find there are many forms of argumentation or writing that simply do not appeal to me for reasons that have to do with me and me alone :D
Obviously I use a lot of nonsequiturs. This particular aesthetic is based on a blogger from the Golden Age of Blogs, called the Last Psychiatrist.
He had a standard technique, where he would tell a story in part one, a different story in part two, a different story in part three, part four would jump back to a previous section, then part five would take all these random threads and combine them into a stunning epiphany.
It's kind of like the final scene in The Usual Suspects, when the detective assembles all the clues and realizes everything the villain told him was a lie, and secretly the lone surviving witness was the criminal mastermind.
The Last Psychiatrist was a huge influence on most of the Extremely Online frogs, so a lot of people understand what I'm doing.
These are a few of his most famous essays.
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/01/no_self-respecting_woman_would.html
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/05/dove.html
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_stamps.html
The presentation style doesn't fit a conventional style... but when you read a classic article in proper format, it's very predictable, and therefore boring, because the audience can sense the rhythm of the piece, even if they don't know the exact data points you plan to present. You will start with a thesis, then provide 3 examples, then expand on the argument, cite data and sources, then resolve with a Call to Action. Technically this is the "correct" way to write, but in a standard article, I can read the headline and guess about 80% of the content. Often I read an interesting headline, and if you squint, the majority of the essay is indistinguishable from hundreds of other essays — maybe there will be 3 cool sentences per every thousand words, or so.
A standard article is read in 5 minutes, it's enjoyable, then almost instantly forgettable. That's the business model of modern content farms... churn and burn.
But economics dictates that sort of low-effort, factory assembly line production, where every writer has to write 4 short essays per week to stay relevant in an oversaturated digital landscape of thousands of competing news sites.
I'm not getting paid anything... I'm free to ignore business logic and craft something which makes zero commercial sense.
This article was crafted, and refined over a period of roughly eight months...
what I sought to create was one single Primer where people could read it, and get a macro and micro understanding of what modern life is dysfunctional, and see how all the puzzle pieces fit together, and how the modern world was created. That's hugely ambitious... but an important distinction here is that, this Substack is intended to be read, reread, and digested in 3-7 viewings. It's not intended for anyone to read, start to finish, in one session... purely because the massive, bulky length.
Although several people have told me they read it in one morning, and loved it. So, I can create the product I want, and the reader can choose to consume it in whatever fashion they want, even if it's not what I intended, I lose control of the piece as soon as it's published.
That makes sense. Now that you mention it, I do recognize the similarities in style between you and TLP, and indeed I stopped reading him after a few years, in part because he stopped updating very frequently and I got out of the habit of checking his site, but also because his posts started losing my interest. I personally prefer more substance than style, and while a Usual Suspects style move (great movie choice, by the way!) can work, dancing between seemingly unrelated stones in a stream before getting to the other side and seeing how it is all related, I find it immensely frustrating when those stones turn out to be merely foam floaters that don't hold up. The style in that case demands a rock solid foundation for the reader to make it to the reveal on the other side.
Thanks for taking the time to write up this (and the other two!) responses.
No worries you are allowed to dislike my work, like I said I'm fine with it.
"you have cast your net so wide you can't haul in the fish. Put more tritely, you've bitten off more than you can chew and taken the reader along with you for every feverishly over heated bite."
"Nothing is substantiated in a serious way...To use Ryan Faulk's old term, you are a "sayer of things."
Lmao
"a "sayer of things."
Yeah bro, you're reading a blog... it's a discussion, that's kind of the whole value proposition. Do you go to a restaurant and complain that they're distributing food?
The correct analogy would be the quality of the food. You set out a premise for your work and what you delivered on that premise is under cooked and mushed together. To carry the analogy, the burger is half sticking out of a pile of mashed potatoes and the whole thing has puffed rice cakes hidden in it for some reason.
I don't think you presented your article as a humble discussion piece. I think you presented it as a serious work of analysis and I will continue to critique it as that for as was long as it exists in its current form. I am unaware of any reason that your work should be uniquely immunized against such critique.
Being a "sayer of things" means not showing your working, nor taking account of your truth claims. It's an acceptable practice in any number of frivolous venues, but you chose to take on the wounds of modern man and the decline of our age, so get used much harsher words than anything you've earned from me.
Pearls before swine; "Speak wisdom to a fool, and he calls you foolish." —Euripides
I didn't call you a fool. I critiqued your writing in a most accurate and specific way.
I will re-emphasize everything I have described as deficient in your work is fixable and within the abilities you've demonstrated, if you chose to use them. You could order and edit the work properly. You could take account of each of your truth claims with evidence and reason in the body of your work. You could refrain from unnecessary and haphazard quotation.
My intention is not to stop you from writing, but to mark where your work, to date, has fallen short. Good luck and I look forward to your next piece.
yes, I called you a fool
He’s the guy who went to the theater for excitement but was annoyed when Booth interrupted the play
Hahahahahahaha
I rage read it yesterday and found this comment accurate. The first section really helped me keep my cool. Ironically, I was procrastinating to distract myself from a topic at work, so I had an example of a coping mechanism at hand.
The rest was mostly repetition. I hastily screenshot quite a few sections, because they made me smile. Your strong proclamations about culture being downstream from economics made me think about the link more and. Ultimately however, any feedback system is a circular graph to a degree. It reminded me of the https://thezman.com/ claims about economics being downstream from biology.
Looking at the comment section, you seem egomaniacal for positive bias. As an antidote I'd recommend:
https://expressiveegg.org/key-posts/ (lot's of content was removed to monetize https://expressiveegg.substack.com/, but I found that feedly RSS still has most of it)
"you seem egomaniacal for positive bias"
Lmaoooooo
"I rage read it yesterday and found this comment accurate. The first section really helped me keep my cool. Ironically, I was procrastinating to distract myself from a topic at work, so I had an example of a coping mechanism at hand."
I'm confused, I don't understand who you are talking to or what you are saying here.
Fantastic piece as always
Very honored, thanks my friend. I wrote most of this in like ten days in December and then was collecting the tweets and photos and just tweaking random sentences during the following months, then I finished the ending 2 sections a couple weeks ago.
I am in awe of how spicy and long your posts are. Keep it up, comrade.
Lmao thanks not everything will be this long or spicy, but you know how it is, you try to craft the project "honestly" according to the aesthetic vision and the message to be communicated. Appreciate you bro.
This was an absolute epic of an essay. Really brilliant and worth the long read.
Thanks bro, very flattered to be praised by the men I respect and admire.
The problem with modern "man" is that quite frankly men have taken to the habit of judging their value based on the opinion of women not other men. This has led to acceptance of many unhealthy things in today's society. Acceptance of quite frankly ludicrous behavior in society that it is man's not women's job to put a stop too.
Agreed, well said.
Big mistake I made for a long time.
We all have my friend.
If you are (or women perceive you to) a leader of men they will give themselves to you. Another wisdom only acquired in my middle age. In a broad sense I think we need to do a better job of providing wisdom for young men, they want it and need it.
The commodification of every aspect of life makes for a war of all against all, a Wind-and-Wolf Age where women sell their bodies online to the very men who in another, better, time would build a home with them and provide for them. God designed men and women as complements to one another; nothing is more fundamentally dysfunctional than having us compete.
The imagery of the rib is profound. There is a term for when a body part spreads beyond its natural function: cancer.
Agreed.
😏 i.imgflip.com/su208.jpg
lmaoooo
The illusion that women complement men has been shattered; and the Christian - I criticize myself here - deludes himself that the correct woman can be a "suitable helpmate;" she cannot be, even Solomon wrote hundreds of years before Christ that only one in a thousand is any good; and who can find her? The story of Lilith is a story made up by priests too embarrassed to admit Eve is Lilith: the twentieth and twenty-first centuries allowed Her to remove the mask.
Self-deluded Christian men refuse to admit Eve walked away from Adam when he was full of the glory of his creation; and she chose the Serpent: she chose the bad boy, the high status male - more so than the good man - and the more powerful male; who catered to her solipsistic desire to have her own wisdom above Adam: this sin is epigenetic to her very sex.; she even prefers the son of her illicit liaison to that of Adam. The Bible declares Adam was an hundred years old before he once more went into Eve and begat Seth: that was one pissed off man.
I only pity the fact that few I could share this with would be bothered to read its entirety, because the further in I got the more illuminating the work became. But regardless of this, everywhere I look, and to all the corners of the internet I cultivate, I see this same fractal pattern repeating - the same brotherhoods you describe forming, and the same realization dawning. We're on the way to that success. It won't come tomorrow, but what in life is immediate?
I do wonder; what's the point of words, thought, discussion... when we are considering the inevitability of historical forces moving a clear direction, on a scale so much bigger than us. But if nothing else, understanding the macro perspective allows us to come to peace with the volatility and uncertainty of life, and just to relax during chaotic times.
One of the core pillars of the modern system is to keep ordinary people so stressed, distracted, demoralized, and hysterical that they feel too weak to defend themselves. Preventing that offers tremendous personal benefits.
But you can't really educate people who don't want to see it; this reflects the saying that fools are madder at the person who tells them they were tricked, than with the person who tricked them.
🗨 socioeconomic, political, and historical forces ... do not exist as pure abstractions, but become manifest only through the behaviour of human beings; interplay of personalities and social processes.
🤷😉
Because, it is as Vox Day often says, we have the opportunity to plant trees under who's shade we will never sit. The future traditions will be the ones we make. We have the peace and remnant prosperity at the moment to ponder which principles should guide the future so that we and ours can be proactive now, rather than merely reactive forever.
The pondering, the questioning, the imagining must be done if we don't want to become just light skinned africans, living in perpetually short sighted scrabbling for tonight's dinner and maybe some booze while foreigners extract all the wealth from our soil and our bodies.
Kek your second paragraph is hilarious, and I do agree with you
This.
Very well said. Napoleon "found the crown lying in a gutter," we remember him because he decided to be the one to pick it up.
This is gold on so many levels. It’s funny how what in one generation represents freedom becomes oppression in the following generation. So one must travel light, be nimble and clear-headed to spot the truth, the ever changing truth, burn past ideas when they become stale and fake, and look for the next generation’s path to freedom. It will always be a subtle path at first, hardly noticeable in the wild, much less enticing that the official superhighway, but once seen, impossible to ignore. And what was true before and became evil will become true again, but changed, morphed, mutated, rid of some parts, enriched by others. And follow it we must, if not for us because change is so slow and inertia so powerful that we will not see it fully realised, at least for our children and grandchildren, to leave them mentally ready to understand the world and for them to have a fighting chance to be, at least, content. To sleep well. To be strong. To see far away, understand their own world, and leave their succession as ready as they were.
Thanks brother
This is a magnum opus. Nothing else will suffice to describe it. Well done.
Thank for the kind words
First time here, and WOW that was great!
Postmodern society is so frustrating at times. There is no healthy way to express one's sexuality (honestly, there probably never has been), and we're presented with two extremes: hypersexuality or complete celibacy that men (specifically) feel has been thrust upon them.
Brotherhood is most certainly the answer. I personally love the modern Gen Y/Z aspects of the internet that talk about philosophy and self-improvement. Even though the digital world is never as good as the real one, it still provides the framework for a brotherhood, at least in my opinion.
Maybe this is just the old-school feminist in me, but I also hope that women embrace sisterhood and come together to improve, reflect, and be stronger. Society needs strong women, too.
The answer is to do what you want to do, what feels natural, even tho it's irrational... but just you have to pair classical romance with a sort of cynical paranoia and hyperalert discernment that wasn't necessary in the past, being careful to evaluate whether you are dealing with a woman who shares your dreams of a family, marriage, kids, religion, etc..
Think about it like this... One of the main things we want in life is a beautiful romance. If we let fear persuade us to abandon that dream, well maybe we can play it safe and avoid problems, but we have basically lost in a major area of life by forfeiting the competition before it's even begun. On the other hand, divorce can wreck you in horrific ways. So there's that balance — pursue romance, pursue a family, embrace a sort of reckless idealism, but you have to bring your game and life habits to an unfair, historically abnormal level in order to make it work.
Not every guy can do it... but some can.
Women will basically conform to the strongest man in their proximity. So if you fix yourself, you will (theoretically) fix your future wife too. Obviously there are some holes in this theory... but it's a useful way to approach relationships.
Dan you are hopelessly dumb
When I die, I'm commissioning a lament to be read at my funeral from Billionaire Psycho.
It might come out as a comprehensive autobiography, but I hope to have enough of an estate to pay the difference.
Haha thanks bro. A traveling Speaker of the Dead.
I had to read this article twice because I was wondering how you spooled this massive yarn until I realized it was as much eulogy as essay, complete with the "we will rise" at the end.
Thanks I don't see it as a eulogy but I think that's a useful angle to interpret this from.
What motivated this piece was listening to Josh Hawley tell men, "Stop watching porn, go romance a wife, losers."
He should know better, but that's what is the socially acceptable critique for him to discuss. He gives terrible advice, the audience claps.
And I thought about that in the broader context — we're living in this confused, stressed, dying civilization. Nobody knows wtf is going on. Dating doesn't work. Jobs barely pay enough to survive. Careers are rare, there's no loyalty from these vast distant corporate multinational conglomerates. Everyone is a replaceable economic unit. And then in terms of leadership... you have Leftists, who are trying to tear civilization down as fast as possible, so they can feed on the ruins.
Then you have Boomer Christian Conservatives who are comfortable, they're kind of disturbed by the social decay of the nation, but they've signed this Faustian bargain which locks them into the fake Economy. All their pensions, stocks, houses, overinflated assets are tied to this monstrous inhuman system, this Ponzi Scheme Engine which can only survive as long as inputs are transformed to outputs, as long as the machine keeps running, and for their pensions, stocks, houses to retain value that ensures their retirement, they need to feed their kids into this Debt Treadmill which grinds them up and destroys them and creates all these sexually dysfunctional blue-haired weirdos.
So I just thought, okay I'm going to write down what's actually happening, talk about the lack of leadership, then move on to the personal suffering that's being ignored, then talk about the historical origins of this dysfunction, map out the rise and fall of civilization, then hint (Fedpoasting) towards the formation of a new culture.
I didn't logically plan this out, I can only see that was the idea in retrospect, it was mostly instinct and a vibe and a compilation of stuff I've been thinking about for years. But that's basically how I created this essay.
Big ideas get better when aged. Fermentation is one of those processes that is truly beautiful, both in the physical and the mental world.
I don't live in the West per se but in one of the vassal states (Philippines) so I'm watching to see what comes next. It's already happening here, to be honest, only about a decade or half of that behind. At least the food's getting better.
I think part of it is simply that we're all dealing with such an endless bombardment of seemingly random information that we have no ability to make sense of. The limits of the actual neurons we are using have been reached, and no artifice of culture (social technology, mental operating systems) or science (technique, mental apps) can help us now.
Everything is so big, so complicated, and so incomprehensible now that everyone is incapable of coping now. I have an essay coming out in three days about how we knew this was happening, just that it was sugarcoated by optimism. I'll ping you when it comes out, but if you see an essay called "Global Paradox 2023", that's it.
It's gotten so bad that I've had to cordon all that stuff off in its own section (in which said essay will appear in time). Each of them is self-contained but builds on the previous, so reading oldest to newest is recommended but not mandatory.
https://argomend.substack.com/t/communication-overhead
Cool, looking forward to it! Will restack
🗨 When they were young, the Baby Boomers broke apart the multi-generational community: untempered youth, wild youth leading itself towards its own ends. Now, they’re doing it again. They have absconded from their duty as old people, which is to be the link between the future and the past—because the world doesn’t have a past anymore, and precious little future either.
🗨 The U.S. has a total G.D.P. of twenty-three trillion dollars, but the assets of all American pension funds are nearly fifty percent larger: thirty-five trillion, a monstrous pile of money accumulated for the sole purpose of allowing Americans to have a nice time when they retire. These pension funds are the biggest players in the financial markets and the biggest investors in every level of the economy.
thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-17/shadow-on-the-sun <-- fascinating longread of a piece with your grand œuvre, dba masterpiece of well-researched shoe-leather journalism of critically endangered variety 😊
Was a child of an immigrant. Parents liked to tell me amazing stories about our home country, & I also liked reading & learning about American history & brilliance. My father, especially, was very impressed by the incredible American spirit & hoped his kids would benefit. None of us have, both parents are depressed, we are losing our money: I almost cry sometimes. What a beautiful future turned to chaos.
Stay tough bro, much love.
Thank you. Love your writing
Very kind, thank you
Excellent piece. Thank you for writing it.
I especially like the hard realism combined with your determined subtle optimism. There is always a way, and despair is voluntary defeat. That is a very difficult thing to pull off and you present it well.
I am working on a piece covering some of the same material, namely male-female relations. It is easy to become despondent and you cover the reasons why. Women degraded by feminist ideology, the high body counts, the ubiquitous presence of dating apps that distort reality, and the damning statistics. And yet your reminder women are endlessly malleable, that good women exist. And what else can we do except work with what we have? Plus they have become victims of their own nature and are just as caught up in all this as anyone else.
This was genuinely great.
Thanks bro, very kind
"Women are no more malleable than men are."
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Alas, you are quite wrong. Women tend to have an external locus of control and are herd thinkers. It is a survival strategy unique to women so famous entire fields of study are devoted to it.
Malleability is not negative; it is a neutral observation. It is however easier to manipulate. Women in the workforce almost never strike, for instance. Women as a general rule dislike confrontation and seek resolution via consensus. These are useful traits when managing a family. They are less useful to build empires.
But traits like this, when present in males or females, make for excellent corporate drones who will parrot elite talking points.
Talking of which...
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"Feminism/women's rights have freed women from violent marriages, marital rape and having to stifle our goals and pretend to be inferior to lacklustre men who need women to 'submit' to feel tough."
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A little less than a century ago over 90 percent of young women (in the US and Britain) had access to a man who earned enough to support her when she had children. The number is now under 15 percent.
Today over 85 percent of young women will have to work when they have young children even when the kids are sick, a parent dies or any of the other normal things happen. Feel free to research yourself. It is a stark number, and difficult to spin.
Your championing of a narrative that has reduced your choices and turned many women into corporate slaves is an example of the malleability you think women are not prone to.
A century ago the US, soon followed by the UK, became the first countries ordinary women didn't have to work to have children. Prior to that it was only aristocratic women who could do this. Who do you think manned the textile mills during the industrial revolution? Who do you think the milkmaids were? Young men?
Women have always had to work. The extreme success of Anglosphere countries meant capital accumulated to such an extent fifty percent of the population could focus on non-work activity important to them i.e. raise kids, manage families. The first generation of women who enjoyed this had mothers and grandmothers who had been worked to death.
It is an endless source of fascination that women, the malleable sex, are so easily convinced. Abortion, the ability to end life, is healthcare. Working like a slave is emancipation. Men have always understood most work is drudgery.
The narrative of violent marriages and nonstop rape is fiction. The early feminists were unconcerned about such things. Read their literature, it is a farce. An elite wanted to increase the tax base and cut wages. Women were the vector they used to keep society down.
Finally, look at the happiness stats. They cut through every narrative. For the first time in history, in Western nations, women are now less happy than men. Men's happiness has increased slightly over the last fifty years. Women's has dramatically fallen.
Some demographics are in despair. Record numbers of women are on antidepressents. Even feminists are having to respond to the sharp decline in female satisfaction. None of these things point to women's lives improving. All of the things women value, children, family, relationships, are being taken from them.
Perhaps modernity will work for you, and I hope it does. But as a woman the odds are against it. I wish you luck.
SUMMARY: the past was a shit show. Try being an infantryman at the Somme. No one had it easy.
Remember the criticism of feminism, it myopically focuses on female suffering because it is female nature to not care about male suffering. We provide the security for you to whine about history not being perfect.
And your jaunt through history still doesn't explain why women are now less happy than men, a literal first in history. Only in the West though. The third world with all those bouncing babies seem to be doing fine.
Feminism is a cancer and younger women seem to be waking up to that.
I'm not hoping for anything. You are peddling the fantasy. You are quoting polls published by corporate entities that want women in the workforce for a myriad of reasons, none of which help society. You are very clearly brainwashed.
The hard facts come from the healthcare world. Antidepressant prescriptions, for example. Record highs. All driven by women not men. And none of them are Afghans.
Men understand something you have failed to grasp. For most people work is drudgery. It provides very little satisfaction. In every major study of female satisfaction work and career rank even lower down for women. Almost no women in their 50s or older care about career. Most care only about relationships. This is a consistent finding in every Western nation.
Everything you are telling me is propaganda the feminist's own research actually debunks. I am beginning to think you are an intentional parody, lol.
Ahistorical
Dan I regret to inform you that you're an idiot, and the case is terminal.