If men have been progressively domesticated over the millennia and the recent centuries, whatabout women?
Good question. If we believe the feminists, women have been domestically oppressed since the dawn of time. Until yesterday when women came forth into the public square and demanded their rights. Women had been forcibly domesticated by men except for occasional liberations like the Amazons of myth and legend.
Only, if we believe social scientist Georg Simmel, the emergence of women into the public square has more to do with the reduction in work at home to keep food on the table and babies in the crib than a reduction in oppression.
Or, if we believe Martin van Creveld, the emancipation of women occurred because men felt sorry for them. As in, whatever the little woman wants. You realize what that means, ladies? It means that the dreaded era of white male supremacy has been replaced with a new era of white male patronage. Eeuw!
Also, the domestication of men has resulted in a less dangerous public square. Used to be that unescorted women were fair game. Not in the capitalist city, where the coin of the realm is trust. Hey, maybe part of being a trustworthy man is to be trustworthy around women.
But as Georg Simmel wrote, the emergence of women into the public square would result in a change to the public square as women transformed it to suit "a more feminine sensibility."
But now, as I have written, I realize that women are not interested in a public square, because the public square is a domesticated version of the male one-one-one duel and the medieval tournament, that are predicated on the male cultures of courage and insult. Did you know that there are lines on the floor of the British House of Commons that the members are not allowed do cross? The distance between the two lines has to do with the length of swords back in the day. Modern politics is a domesticated version of civil war -- civil war by other means. It is where men can strut and fret in parliament without actually coming to blows, mano a mano. Women don't do duels, or open outcry in parliament, or dueling op-eds. Because women have a culture of complaint.
So I interpret the emergence of women into the public square as women just complaining again. It looks really cool to get out of the house, especially as a way for well-born educated Gentry women to differentiate themselves from low-born Commoners. But when you actually get out of the house and find out how the public square works, well, I can't believe it's like that.
But of course it is. Men have a culture of courage when they are being good boys, and a Culture of Insult when they are being bad boys. So the public square they built is a domesticated form of the old culture of combat and insult. Bloody brilliant, if you ask me, because the whole point of social animals is the reduction in violence, because violence is expensive, and the more you can reduce violence to a dull roar, the more social the animals and the more they can survive and prosper and wive and thrive.
So the interesting question, for me, is to figure out how women will retreat back into domesticity, since the open outcry of the public square is just not their kind of thing. Let's just try to imagine how this will work.
Actually it's not that hard to imagine, because all we have to do is look around us as women have demanded an end to micro-aggressions -- i.e., trivial insults that any man would take in stride -- and safe spaces from uncomfortable ideas. Women really are not into face to face combat, and not into direct insult. Their Culture of Complaint is indirect rather than direct, with Woman A complaining to Woman B about Woman C.
Perhaps schools will become girls and women only. Schools used to be places where little boys were roundly spanked and disciplined until they got with the program. But since girls and women have emerged into education they have utterly transformed it into a Kaffee Klatsch that is profoundly unfriendly to boys and men. But actually, with on-line learning and the internet and home-schooling I expect that men will create a new education system better suited to the male sensibility. One thing that might help would be to reinstitute apprenticeships.
Perhaps men will develop a new public square, parallel to the present one, where men can be men and do not get named and shamed and canceled for hurting someone's feelings, leaving women in charge of the old public square that nobody pays any attention to.
Perhaps men will develop a new -- domesticated -- culture of courage and insult based on the online video games that young men are presently addicted to. I have a feeling that a good way to understand video games are as a rehearsal for the real world of the public square, a place where young men can hone their courage, develop their tactical skills and, for the talented tenth, their strategic sense.
Perhaps girls and women will come to dominate the safe sectors of education and work in established administrative structures where the culture can be adapted to the feminine sensibility of one-on-one conversation and the disciplinary culture of naming, blaming, shaming, and canceling, leaving men to dominate the new domesticated wild west of the new public square.
The point is that women have always been domesticated, just like chimpanzee females. Their job, and it is the only job that matters, is to birth and raise the next generation. Everything else is just fluff and conceit and the need for high-status humans to differentiate themselves from the common herd.
And my judgement of the feminist movement of the de-domestication of woman is that it is a cruel trick upon lower-status women that do not feel the need to differentiate themselves as special and clearly way above the common herd.
Good question. If we believe the feminists, women have been domestically oppressed since the dawn of time. Until yesterday when women came forth into the public square and demanded their rights. Women had been forcibly domesticated by men except for occasional liberations like the Amazons of myth and legend.
Only, if we believe social scientist Georg Simmel, the emergence of women into the public square has more to do with the reduction in work at home to keep food on the table and babies in the crib than a reduction in oppression.
Or, if we believe Martin van Creveld, the emancipation of women occurred because men felt sorry for them. As in, whatever the little woman wants. You realize what that means, ladies? It means that the dreaded era of white male supremacy has been replaced with a new era of white male patronage. Eeuw!
Also, the domestication of men has resulted in a less dangerous public square. Used to be that unescorted women were fair game. Not in the capitalist city, where the coin of the realm is trust. Hey, maybe part of being a trustworthy man is to be trustworthy around women.
But as Georg Simmel wrote, the emergence of women into the public square would result in a change to the public square as women transformed it to suit "a more feminine sensibility."
But now, as I have written, I realize that women are not interested in a public square, because the public square is a domesticated version of the male one-one-one duel and the medieval tournament, that are predicated on the male cultures of courage and insult. Did you know that there are lines on the floor of the British House of Commons that the members are not allowed do cross? The distance between the two lines has to do with the length of swords back in the day. Modern politics is a domesticated version of civil war -- civil war by other means. It is where men can strut and fret in parliament without actually coming to blows, mano a mano. Women don't do duels, or open outcry in parliament, or dueling op-eds. Because women have a culture of complaint.
So I interpret the emergence of women into the public square as women just complaining again. It looks really cool to get out of the house, especially as a way for well-born educated Gentry women to differentiate themselves from low-born Commoners. But when you actually get out of the house and find out how the public square works, well, I can't believe it's like that.
But of course it is. Men have a culture of courage when they are being good boys, and a Culture of Insult when they are being bad boys. So the public square they built is a domesticated form of the old culture of combat and insult. Bloody brilliant, if you ask me, because the whole point of social animals is the reduction in violence, because violence is expensive, and the more you can reduce violence to a dull roar, the more social the animals and the more they can survive and prosper and wive and thrive.
So the interesting question, for me, is to figure out how women will retreat back into domesticity, since the open outcry of the public square is just not their kind of thing. Let's just try to imagine how this will work.
Actually it's not that hard to imagine, because all we have to do is look around us as women have demanded an end to micro-aggressions -- i.e., trivial insults that any man would take in stride -- and safe spaces from uncomfortable ideas. Women really are not into face to face combat, and not into direct insult. Their Culture of Complaint is indirect rather than direct, with Woman A complaining to Woman B about Woman C.
Perhaps schools will become girls and women only. Schools used to be places where little boys were roundly spanked and disciplined until they got with the program. But since girls and women have emerged into education they have utterly transformed it into a Kaffee Klatsch that is profoundly unfriendly to boys and men. But actually, with on-line learning and the internet and home-schooling I expect that men will create a new education system better suited to the male sensibility. One thing that might help would be to reinstitute apprenticeships.
Perhaps men will develop a new public square, parallel to the present one, where men can be men and do not get named and shamed and canceled for hurting someone's feelings, leaving women in charge of the old public square that nobody pays any attention to.
Perhaps men will develop a new -- domesticated -- culture of courage and insult based on the online video games that young men are presently addicted to. I have a feeling that a good way to understand video games are as a rehearsal for the real world of the public square, a place where young men can hone their courage, develop their tactical skills and, for the talented tenth, their strategic sense.
Perhaps girls and women will come to dominate the safe sectors of education and work in established administrative structures where the culture can be adapted to the feminine sensibility of one-on-one conversation and the disciplinary culture of naming, blaming, shaming, and canceling, leaving men to dominate the new domesticated wild west of the new public square.
The point is that women have always been domesticated, just like chimpanzee females. Their job, and it is the only job that matters, is to birth and raise the next generation. Everything else is just fluff and conceit and the need for high-status humans to differentiate themselves from the common herd.
And my judgement of the feminist movement of the de-domestication of woman is that it is a cruel trick upon lower-status women that do not feel the need to differentiate themselves as special and clearly way above the common herd.
The lockdowns have created a big boost in homeschooling interest. If perhaps it jumps to 10 percent of the population this will be huge. Homeschoolers generally are higher performers and will have a disproportionate effect on society. That will freak out the left to no end. Chuckle 😁.
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