It’s not easy-a reader has to excavate in layers, removing all the primitive psychobabble and 1950s ephemera. So it will always be in any successful society, and any society that attempts to contradict truth will only find its own obliteration.īut you will be disappointed, I am sure, if I do not at least summarize this book, and doing so is helpful to frame discussion about recapturing our future. And from a societal structure perspective, the crucial truth is that men drive a society forward, while women bind a society together. They always have been, and they always will be. A sneak peek: men and women are very different. Therefore, we will instead use this book to discuss some of the defects in societal structures in America today as they relate to men and women, and how those structures should be remade. I could spend hours amusing myself blowing holes in this execrable book, but I have sworn off reviewing books merely to show how they are wrong. And we do not and will not solicit you we neither need nor accept money. If you subscribe will get a notification of all new writings by email. In these days of massive censorship, this is wise, even if you normally consume The Worthy House on some other platform. You can subscribe to writings published in The Worthy House.

It would be funny if it had not been so catastrophic. To their great frustration, this is a problem our rulers have been unable to solve, causing them to resort to ever more extreme and ultimately self-defeating falsehoods about men and women. For its purveyors, a woman’s career is far more important than the family-lip service is only paid to the family because women keep stubbornly insisting they want a family. Many elements of our present ruin can be traced back to this propaganda. The Feminine Mystique was chosen in the 1960s, the decade that really began our decline, as the central pillar of the enormously destructive myth that a woman can “have it all”-both a fully-realized family in the home and a fully-realized career outside the home. If you see a sad wine aunt (they are all sad), and you see them everywhere, you see a small part of the resulting social wreckage. What followed was mass indoctrination in falsehoods about men and women, in which this infamous book played a key role. But only in the twentieth century did this effort gain real traction, when our elites became converts to the fantasy that sex roles as they existed were artefacts of oppression, not organic reality. The family, by its existence and by what it brings forth, mocks the Left project, and so the Left has tried to destroy it for 250 years.

In their eternal quest to remake reality, a perennial target of the Left is the family: man, woman, and children, the bedrock of all human societies.

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