Wilder: A High Functioning Society Runs On A Shared Vision And Voluntary Self-Enforcement

John Wilder's latest piece, "The Funniest Post You’ll Ever Read About Society, Values, And Waffles," delves into why today's society seems more Orwellian and less fun than it did in days of yore. An excerpt:

    A huge part of the collapse is the deliberate feminization of society. Women are wonderful creatures.  Their nurturing and care are the reason families exist and babies don’t die in the woods.  But scale that instinct up to the level of national policy and it turns horrifying.

    An illiterate military-age man crossing the border illegally triggers the exact same emotional circuit as a crying baby, especially in the spinster wine-aunt who never had kids.  The illegal becomes a surrogate for the kid her barren womb never produced.  Must help.  Must clean it up.  Must give it a chance.

    And when it rapes or murders?  Well, punishing it is so mean.  It just needs more care. ...

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    Getting [back to the old values] won’t be easy.  Societies don’t pivot on a dime.  There will be stunning levels of violence, which is the pain that comes from feminists not understanding that foreigners aren’t the same thing as babies.     

Related:

• "The Great Feminization" by Helen Andrews, Compact Magazine. The author begins by noting that the forced resignation of Harvard University President Larry Summers was an inflection point. Summers had discussed how differences in the numbers of women versus men in STEM could, in part, be attributed to innate differences for women. So, of course, the Left had to take him down:

    The essay argued that it wasn’t just that women had cancelled the president of Harvard; it was that they’d cancelled him in a very feminine way. They made emotional appeals rather than logical arguments. ...

    This cancellation was feminine, the essay argued, because all cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field. That is the Great Feminization thesis, which the same author later elaborated upon at book length: Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.

    The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently. ...

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    The substance fits, too. Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition. ...