Another Article About "The Lost Generation"

In "Confronting the Unspeakable Truth," Aaron Renn expands on Jacob Savage's piece, "The Lost Generation." Among other things, he addresses some of arguments advanced by the naysayers, including this bit:

    Believe it or not, there are also people out there still denying this is real or a major problem. An editorial writer for the Washington Post, for example, suggested this is limited to a very narrow set of prestige institutions, saying, “This is not an economy-wide problem.”

    But actually, it is. Vast swaths of our corporate and institutional landscape brag about their diversity efforts and statistics. I suspect that, like me, large numbers of white men have been directly told they aren’t getting a job or position because of their race and gender. As as the troves of documents discovered by Chris Rufo and others show, people haven’t been shy about putting in writing that they discriminate against white men or create a hostile work environment for white men.

    I’m sure people will pore over Savage’s stats with a microscope, too, looking for any way to discredit them. He previously wrote another widely read piece saying that no white man born after 1984 has ever had a piece of literary fiction published in the New Yorker. Somebody then found that one such person had been published. But does this change the underlying reality?

    But beyond simple denial is the much larger phenomenon of people who simply refuse to acknowledge one of the fundamental experiences younger men have today.

    Yuval Levin, writing a tribute to the recently deceased Norman Podhoretz, said that in today’s world, “Everyone runs from the seriousness and importance of living by the truth.”

    I adopted as my first guiding principle for my newsletter the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn admonition to “live not by lies.”

    It’s a lot easier to say than to do it though, because speaking the truth is often costly.

    I’ve talked before about how roughly 70% of divorces are initiated by women. While the exact percentage varies by study, this is one of the best attested statistics in social science. But I’ve never seen this statistic mentioned in sermon or book on marriage by a major evangelical pastor.

    Similarly, have you ever heard one of them talk about discrimination against white men today? I haven’t seen it.

    My observation from over a decade ago, from before I even started this newsletter, is that the average evangelical pastor is terrified of offending women. You can almost smell the fear on them.

Amen to that. Men need to organize and form their own groups, advancing their own interests.