Sunday, December 10, 2023

The fanciful nonsense of children

The shallow talk of freedom and our entitlement to it . 


 Whether one has children, or has to live with them  as adults, one longs for them to grow up --To mature .
A lot of my baby booming generation have clearly never grown up .They have had it all and it hasn't been good for them . Nor has it been good for their children who are not war ready and too rich to notice their dependancies and their real lack of freedom; their lack of awareness of choices and why one one needs to make good ones .  

Many of my generation have made a career out being the reactionaries they were as teenagers.
The only thing that is troubling them is old age and the realization that there are limits to growth and that resilience ( the thing you need to survive in the real world) comes not with mere freedom( but with resistance repentance and a return to the disciplined walking on the narrow road .

eg Lerhmann/Higgins trial. The growth of the risk of unresolved domestic anger, violence and abandonment .  

Think  about the overreaction so evident to men , of many modern single women who insist on post Christian lifestyle choices and then reject men's pressure on them.  Why should men feel obliged to one women when all the talk is about everyone's freedom to " do what they feel like '' ,  for example. 
If men are only animals,  why can't men just play the predator? 

I feel for such women  and accept that the risk of violence , misunderstanding and abandonment  is real , but their response of many of them to the sexual revolution is not complete or effective  . 

Some of these issues  have been more deeply dealt with very effectively in a RECENT scholarly  study by Mary Harrington of THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF REACTIONARY  FEMINISM ( reviewed in News Weekly Nov 11th) .

Mary points to the  reality that modern feminists ( many of whom appear in this stories  frame ) have foisted an " atomised , dehumanized  and commodified social order on women which doesn't work well. - and  IMHO presumably means they don't know what to do sometimes but resist it, make men more of a target, and resist what is happening to them  more strongly than ever.  
The evidence is there in the fanaticism .   



Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Creating God in our own image

 Our age seems determined to dumb itself down . Unwilling to follow the lengthy connections of logic , the quickfiddlers  insist we can change the world , not by changing the word connections s,but by changing the meaning of words .
 Its the dumbest nonsense  ever and our popular medai are afraid to state the fact . It can only end in mindess crap and reationships betwen people that only end in unproductive distinctions ,isolation,  no talk  and divorce . 
Take this excellent piece from Mark Durie https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6564055/2950692593657357613?hl=en#