culture

Study the downward trajectory of Western civilization long enough, and you start to notice certain trends. One dyscivic development that almost certainly affects you but goes largely unremarked upon is the increasing isolation and atomization of men. The decline in (actually the suppression of--more on that later) male socializing and…

Reader Durandel comments on yesterday's post: I’ve said for years the West is now entirely made up of infantilized generations. Civilization is built on the back of men. What are we to build with generations of perpetual 14 year olds? The authoritarian who shows up to whip these kids into…

The Postmodern world isn't so much a world without rules as it is a place where there are no longer any widely recognized authorities capable of enforcing the rules. This situation didn't just materialize out of nowhere one day in 1968. At least in the West, disowning the authorities that…

While I expected two general types of pushback against my recent post that was (only tangentially) related to "This Is me", the volume and lockstep uniformity of those knee-jerk responses surprised me. To recap, first we have the pop culture copper tops who've been plugged into the mass media Matrix…