I’ve been thinking about the concept of a “male loneliness epidemic” and I don’t think it has anything to do with a lack female companionship. There are just certain things that women will not be able to offer anyway.
What I think is happening is that men are lacking distinct hierarchical, mutually supportive, male relationships. When dealing with women, they want the man to be responsible for solving their problems – but who do men turn to for help?
The boomers being the “me generation” largely abandoned any generativity and refused to take responsibly for their children (in fact often blaming the children for the boomer’s own decisions). Unfortunately Gen X also became something of invisibles and checked out of society like the oldest child in an abusive family who gets out of there as soon as possible.
Pete Hegseth even recently commented in a video about men not wanting to join the military because they didn’t feel that command would have their best interests in mind or be looking out for them. I think that speaks to the broader need for men to be part of a group working towards and objective, and knowing they can also turn to the group when they need help. It used to be that at the simplest level one could turn to their family for support, now that is not as common. Outside of the Neo-aristocracy anyway.
Even in businesses, your boss isn’t looking out for you, and they consider you expendable. I often think of the eastern patronage systems (not to be confused with American cronyism) where your boss is considered to be responsible for your wellbeing in other areas of your life and can act as a sort of patriarch.
Men are task oriented problem solvers, and being unable to solve a problem is stressful. We also used to have men’s only groups, but the communists brute forced women into them.
Speaking of business, one of the reasons Boeing was previously successful was all the tribal knowledge from 3rd generation employees. When they eliminated the heritage employees they lost decades of experience beyond that or the employees.
I think that everyone must serve something, expressed another way, we all conform – but the question is what do we conform to. As a Neo-aristocrat I chose reality or “The Truth” and continually ask “does this align what is actually happening or the rules of the universe?”
But that’s also a privileged position precisely because I do not have to worry about survival. Most people lack the capacity (cognitive or otherwise) to grind through that so they choose ‘good enough for government work’ heuristics. Conforming to the herd is a good enough low cognitive workload risk mitigation strategy right up until events send the group right off a cliff.
The clot shot was one of those events and what the self ascribed genius elite don’t recognize is that people do a pretty good job of making independent decisions in their best interest with the available information they have at the time that falls into the realm of their understanding. Yeah you can trick people into taking a deadly poison by saying it’s expert recommended, but you can’t tell people inflation isn’t happening when their income stayed the same yet they’re having to ration food to stay in budget.
So what happens to the mass when their benchmark for understanding the world around them is continually promoting concepts that are in direct conflict with their lived experience and ability to access things that benefit them?
They simply have to find a new group to conform to – which means looking for a new leader to follow. (Women are particularly good at making this switch). This is why fence sitters are unappealing as authority figures as that replicates the internal problem (indecisiveness due to the effort required to independently figure out The Truth). We go to leaders to be told what the solution is to our problem when we don’t know how to solve it. Patriarchy is rule by the father and it’s quite lindy as it is putting the most experienced father in charge of the entire family unit.
Extremism wins because it isn’t sitting on the fence undecided. It’s telling people that it has the solution to their problems that they can’t solve on their own.
People flock to winners – that’s why the everyone else wants to live in the west.. That’s why exposure to us leads to people joining us – we are interested in what is going to get the desired results and when the situation gets bad enough people start to accept that the established leaders have failed and look for new ones, and that is why we should continue to hold the flag however bleak, Want for a better expression … If we build it they will come… Eventually anyway.
Tomorrow belongs to those that show up
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