If one adds the access to easy and free pornography to the equation described in the video below, we have even more reasons why it may be the same situation today as in Ancient Rome. Another reason why men may avoid committed relationships with women. Or more accurately, another variable to an equation which the state has tipped the scales heavily in every aspect and variable of the family equation.
One wonders if the Left who have been engineering the demise of the West for over 100 years now, didn’t have a solid grasp on the ancients and use that knowledge to erode the foundations of Western Civilization. Clearly feminism was an attack on the family, and as Raegan correctly observed, the family is the basis of Western Civilization.
“The family is the keystone of Western civilization. The family is the basic unit of society. It is the foundation upon which all other institutions are built.” -R. Raegan.
Is the actual quote. And clearly the left knows it, and clearly the left attacked it.
Feminism today has most decidedly changes the equation such that many young men avoid committed relationships with women. In part because as the video says, in Roman times the equation was changed legally to make it inequitable, but also from what they have seen with their own eyes happens to men in marriage. Often in their own families.
Add to that the lionization of homosexuality, and the curiously reasonable settlements for failed relationships as compared to what happens within that which I have come to think of as “a mixed marriage”, (one with a male and a female).
There is a skirmish line, or perhaps an ORBAT of dialectical weaponry which has been attacking Western Civilization in every aspect And its effects are now inescapable, even to those in denial. Many, perhaps most still are in denial of the cause and intentions. But at this point few argue the effects.
Below, Stephen Coughlin’s short brief on Feminism as a Marxist war on women. The first couple of minutes he is discussing previous speakers, so the confusion there is natural. But as he gets into his own presentation, it’s quite compelling and clear.
There is another aspect to the attack on the family which requires a lengthy and detailed analysis, but this is not the place to do it.
But in brief, it is the attack, rapidly gaining ground in the West, where institutions and therapists are estranging children from their parents. That picayune and ordinary conflicts expected between personalities, but not in any way at the magnitude or real abuse or torture, are weaponized such that children are convinced to divorce themselves from their parents.
Arguments can be made that sometimes this is the right move for the child. And sometimes it likely is. But it’s far far more rare than the actual occurrence of it. One could say that it is like divorce and abortion in that sense. A necessary evil becomes a weapon against the entire institution.
A couple of links on that phenomenon. First how therapists use Marxist reasoning in general, but its easy to see how it applies here.
This therapist has an entire practice of attempting to undo this particular attack on the family.
This shifting level of abstraction for dialectical , or destructive purposes is a repeated tactic of the left. Canadians for example may remember how the media in the 1989 attack on women engineering students in Montreal, reshaped a Muslim’s attack on the women at Ecole Polytechnique such that marches took place regularly to demonize men overall as misogynistic and evil by nature, while scrubbing the Islamic culture from the motive and perpetrator.
We call that trick, the skipping of layers of abstraction. You take an event and change the level of abstraction of the components of it to suit a narrative, rather than the truth. Muslim crime based on Muslim culture and the structure of its Deen, are projected onto all men. They still did that to cover for the Islamic mass child-sex-slave-gangs in the UK and elsewhere for a while. “That’s always happened!”. “British men did that to!”
The exception becomes the rule when it isnt.
As an aside, the counter to that is that when a non-Muslim murders a woman in their family it is a crime, and thought of as such by all people including the perp himself and the family. But in Islam it is a matter of celebration. The state they live in may consider it a crime, but the family does not, as they are the ones who did it collectively and therefore it is apples to oranges.
The only unusual thing here is the family was given life sentences. But the family itself knows it did “the right thing ” by its own values.
If you search for honour killings in the UK however, you will find that the sentencing for these exact kind of murders are very light as a rule.
POSTSCRIPT
This post is a little ramblish and stream of consciousness. It is basically just the author of this site trying to make sense of events and connecting them to historical situations to understand both the now, and more importantly, the impetus and motives for the agencies behind how things are now.
The current state of the West is not organic. It is the result of sustained attacks on reason, truth and nature to achieve an untenable situation to tip over Western Civ. It’s principle weapon is dialectics. It’s main kinetic weapon is the importation of Islam.
I hope some of this makes sense to someone.
Thank you.
It is difficult for me to imagine success in this regard unless the current administration consults with Stephen Coughlin.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-rubio-bessent-convene-65-nations-global-crackdown-far-left-political-terrorism