If you’ll humor me for a minute, I’d like to cite this passage from Warren Farrell’s landmark book The Myth of Male Power:
For both sexes, adolescence sharpens sex-role anxiety like a pencil sharpener sharpens a pencil; the fear of rejection creates an emotional state as fragile as the sharpened pencil’s point. Less attractive girls feel especially vulnerable… as vulnerable as they feel invisible. As for the more attractive girl, she eventually senses her dependency on a power that will fade, and as boys compete for her attention as if she were a celebrity, she becomes, in essence, a genetic celebrity —and genetic celebrities become entitlement dependent. As difficult as this is for girls, I believe that something is happening to boys during this time that makes suicide a greater probability.
By addicting boys more to girls’ bodies than vice versa, we make boys feel less than equal to girls. This reinforces boys performing for girls, pursuing girls, and paying for girls to compensate for their inequality. When they perform and pursue inadequately —or feel they will never be able to earn enough to afford what they are addicted to —this creates anxiety which, in its extreme form, leads to suicide. Performing, pursuing, and paying —the “Three P’s” —are so anxiety provoking because the boy senses these are metaphors for adult versions of performing, pursuing, and paying. (So if he can’t hack it when he’s a kid…)
The disenfranchisement from the Boomer and Gen X generations to their Millennial and Zoomer sons has been all too real.
Critical skills, many of them soft social skills, have not been passed from one generation to the next.
Boomers did not fight back as politicians offshored their manufacturing base. They did not unionize to any significant degree. They watched TV as the jobs went overseas. Their fathers butchered Germans, so what did it matter??
Now the economy is a smoking crater with a few corporate customer service jobs, government “jobs” that require no skill and devour a person’s soul, and a titanic military industrial complex that feeds off of technological capture. That’s about it. And BlackRock has unlimited Treasury funds to seal off whatever loopholes manage to stagger on and permit a man an independent livelihood. If you step back for a second and watch how Larry Fink manages BlackRock, you’ll see that its true. Now he’s the head of the World Economic Foundation. He has been amply rewarded for his shrewd form of economic warfare.
Boomer culture, which was directed by a fifth column of dual-nationality citizens, featured a recurrent theme of townies breaking away from their repressive fathers so that they could go to college and make it with a girl heheh. Women: endlessly interesting heheh. Forever lost in her eyes wow! Rockin’!
The Boomers were saturated with stories about the individual getting away from the shabby oppression of town life in order to go to college and become a big shot. There’s nothing wrong with career ambition. This was the part that rang true. But always with the individualism. Think of all the great Boomer movie stars:
-Tom Hanks (sussy guy!)
-Sly Stallone
-Schwarzenegger
-Bruce Willis
-Kevin Costner
-Richard Gere
-Tom Cruise
-Harrison Ford
All of them involved in individualist pursuits with barely any depiction of father-son relationships and none of them doing anything skills-based that could be transmitted to the next generation. All of them always making out with womyn. They were all in big budget films that literally blew away the excess wealth of the age. I sometimes mention how “food fights” used to be a thing. People throwing the equivalent of thousands of dollars of food at each other, which at the time cost perhaps $30 or $40. This was the programming of the Boomers.
There was a very faint Boomer underground culture of honky tonks and bar bands where art was made for the working man but this was all superseded by the early 1990’s because those artists either sold out to become stars or were drowned out by the commodification of entertainment.
If you were touched by the mainstream growing up, and basically everyone was, you experienced the Boomer trope of, “Go to college and then you can get a good job.” There was a kind of mindless, unconsciously assumed individualism to it. Dur, you get a good job if you get a good college. And even up until the 2008 financial swindle, this more or less held true. Since then, Millennial workers have experienced five economic recessions, several forever wars, and the importation of an H1B overclass that is spreading like wildfire all across the Democrat states. Oh and the GOP is in on it.
Where was the skills transmission?
The children were thrust into the arms of the State, so women could have careers, and fathers were treated like shit (by the women) and, admittedly, failed to unionize to protect their own interests: their sons.
Most Millennial and Zoomer men have had this shared experience: emerging into a cutthroat, impoverished social landscape of strangers and recoiling in cynicism or depression. Friendships are so few and far between, compared to 20 years ago. Loneliness is on the rise. Isolation reigns.
The fathers didn’t pass on their lessons. The last of them are still in their cushy Boomer jobs and the H1B’s that are coming over to replace them are unable to steer the levers of civilization.
The way out?
You must extend an arm out of your isolation. Un-addict yourself from women. Find other American sons and unionize. We must cling to each other. We’re all we have.
We’re all we have.
Don’t persist in the dread you lived in as a teenager as you came to realize on some deep, unconscious level that your patrimony was vanishing into thin air. You weren’t able to do those three P’s.
Shake off the cobwebs, lock in, and unionize. Unionize, unionize, unionize.
