June 19, 2013
Why Men Are “Going Galt”: A Review
of Men On Strike
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/ ... on-strike/
It's interesting this subject has become prominent enough to be put up for serious discussion. I find the particulars more symptomatic
of the bigger picture. When a civilization is in its ascent phase, it naturally favors men and conversely when it is in the decline phase it naturally favors women. This is for many reasons. One obvious one is that when a civilization is in the ascent phase, there is a lot
of construction
of infrastructure going on and men are more inclined toward that activity. Once the civilization goes into decline, not only is there less construction but the things that have already been constructed don't get maintained properly. All
of the details in this link just serve to verify that is what is happening, that for the first time in its history the US has entered solidly and intractably into the decline phase, along with Europe and parts
of Asia.
For a specific discussion
of how this works in the bigger picture, when a civilization goes into decline, two things happen with regard to the birth rate. One is that the birth rate falls and the other is that the birth rate
of the racial group that built the civilization falls even faster. So we have in the US the birth rate
of the white population falling very fast, faster than in the US as a whole. The next part
of this is that most men marry women who are younger. Therefore, if the birth rate (numbers, more accurately) is falling, men have a smaller and smaller pool
of women to pick from and, therefore, the men no longer drive the marriage bargain. The link above gives many examples
of this but doesn't make the connection that this is happening because the civilization is in decline. And many
of the things the link points out don't seem to be a problem for the Hispanic or Muslim (or even Mormon) population in the US because their numbers are rising very fast. At least, I haven't noticed that Hispanic, etc., men are having these kinds
of problems to the extent that men in the predominant population are. And all I ever hear Mormon women talk about is how great their men are. Really.
This is the type
of thing that leads to a vicious cycle
of decline. Once the cycle is deeply rooted and intractable to the point that the civilization is dying and soon to enter a Dark Age, a few people realize there is a problem, but by then it is too late. Everything has been set up where the only logical choice for men
of any age to make is to "Go Galt" if they can.
What the article also doesn't pick up on is that men in their prime productive and earning years are starting to "Go Galt" in a different and more applicable way in terms
of what Atlas Shrugged was really all about. This will be the much more immediately damaging effect. I'm getting the impression that a tipping point has been reached where it is becoming fashionable for productive men to "Go Galt". Once this happens we will probably move past the "slowly at first" into the "all at once" stage
of collapse.
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.