I'm fragged out this morning. I feel like I didn't get any sleep at all. So here's a link to a column that pretty accurately describes a problem we face today as a country.
No, the fault, to paraphrase Shakespeare, is not in our guns but in ourselves, and specifically in our men. For half a century masculinity has been under concerted attack in this country—fish, bicycle is one of the more benign forms, although still passive-aggressively hateful—until today it has been deemed "toxic" by the harpies of fourth-wave feminism and their very strange bedfellows in the QWERTYUIOP+ brigades. The unsurprising result has been the diminution and removal of genuine masculinity from the public square— even in the military, which now prizes women and trans-wokeness over men—and its replacement with sundry culturally unacceptable substitutes.
See ya later.
"And all the time — such is the tragi-comedy of our situation — we
ReplyDeletecontinue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more ‘drive’, or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or ‘creativity’. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." -- C. S. Lewis, "The Abolition of Man," 1943
I had that quote posted outside my office door for many a year. I think I'm going to post it again.
ReplyDeleteI saw this link and it speaks to the problems I had in the "diversity at ALL costs" military I served in until medical retirement in 2010.
ReplyDeleteI have heard and seen that it has gotten MUCH worse since then...
http://www.youmeandtheafter.com/2022/05/not-our-mission-today-short-story.html?sc=1654081816007#c2967036393145789706