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 .
