Summary: Enough analysis. This post describes the first part of the solution to the gender war: forming groups to act. Drunk with individualism, we appear to have forgotten this. But no solution to the gender war is possible without men first standing together for a common purpose.
Summary of previous chapters in this series
There are few white and black hats in the gender wars. There are few good guys and bad girls and vice versa. The feminist revolution is the logical next stage in the evolution of western individualism (details here). But patriarchy was the reward for men to join the rat race (see here and here) and we have nothing to replace it. Now comes the pushback, as men on the street develop new values and insights. Game, which is toxic to feminism. Red Pill knowledge, which is poison to marriage.
These changes in the behavior of men and women are destroying marriage as an institution. But marriage is the foundation of the Republic. It ties individuals into the whole of society and connects this generation to the future. New social structures are needed. Who will build them? Here is some analysis and speculation about the future.
Individuals and groups.
A society often embraces or exults its weakest aspects. So it is with individualism in the West. Its extreme form is libertarianism, our most popular imaginary social system (replacing communism), built on ahistorical beliefs taken from novels. My favorite is “an armed society is a polite society!” As a result, our largest grassroots political movements fail because their people do not want formal leaders (e.g., see the Tea Party and Occupy movements). Our leaders love this. It keeps us fragmented and weak – alienated from our own society.
So it is in the gender revolution. Radical feminists have captured major institutions, using them to implement their ideology. Men have respond like frightened sheep. This has allowed feminists to implement drastic changes to America with blinding speed, as social changes go. Almost all the institutions in America have joined the new orthodoxy, from the Boy Scouts to conservative Christian organizations. (see here and here). So the men who rebel are outlaws. They craft solutions as individuals, such as Game and MGTOW (men going their own way).
But there is always a counter-revolution. After generations of increasing alienation from themselves – slowly – men’s automatic systems engage, behaviors hard-wired into men. These are the equivalent of a BIOS – the instructions in a pc’s permanent memory. When attacked, men band together into packs. Tight groups with common beliefs and goals, respected leaders, and willingness to act. Not organizations, run with Roberts Rules of Order and committees. Packs, like wolves. Organic social structures, developed thousands of generations ago on the Serengeti plains of Africa.
As individuals we are weak. Only standing together are we strong. This allowed us to survive before the invention of fire. It was the foundation for many civilizations of the classical era. Men of the Greek city-states stood together to form the phalanx. Their women would say “come back with your shield or on it.” (Cowards would break the line, dropping their shield to run away). Almost three thousand years ago the Etruscans created the symbol of the fasces — sticks bound together to make an axe. This was the symbol of the Roman Republic, and was adopted by America’s Founders (it is seen throughout the Capital building). That insight will work for us today.
The spark that creates fires.
“Anger is easy. Anger at the right person, at the right time, for the right reason, is difficult.”
— Aristotle, in the Nicomachean Ethics (paraphrased).
“Telemachus, now is the time to be angry.”
— Odysseus, when the time came to deal with the Suitors. From The Odyssey(1997).
We can only guess at the motives and goal of packs that will form in the next generation, probably composed mostly of Millennials and Generation Z. Anger is a common starting point. Anger at reverse discrimination, at drugging of boys, at the government’s support of Girl’s Game (easy divorce for women at advantageous terms), at universities’ kangaroo courts for control of speech and prosecution of doggy sexual harassment claims, and American institutions’ increasingly tight regulation of “toxic masculinity” — by which they often mean “masculinity.” (For more about anger as a political tool, see section 11 here.)
Some packs will form for fellowship and mutual support, such as sports, games, or ideology. Red Pill thinking encourages self-improvement, especially physical fitness. Some packs will form to pursue political goals: elect a friend or colleague, support or oppose a proposed law, pursue a neighborhood project, or defects from a mainstream political party to create a new group (that is happening now with the proliferation of alt-Right groups).
Any of these can come first or in combination – anger, common interests, or politics. The original purpose matters little once the machinery of pack formation begins. Men automatically organize, train, and recruit for the group.
Men’s alienation from existing organizations will drive the formation of countless packs, each a petri dish in which a thousand variables combine to produce a unique product. Eventually some of these groups will have the right mixture of people, beliefs, resources, and opportunities to go viral (it only takes one such group to change a nation). They will begin the counter-revolution. They will accomplish what no numbers of individuals can do: change the institutional structure of an increasingly anti-men society.
Individuals form groups. Groups work together to win.
The strength of the wolf is not teeth or claws. It is the pack.
Pack formation is a hard-wired process, and like all such it is amoral. It produces biker gangs, inner city gangs, and organized crime networks as easily as reform movements. See how the fasces’ glorious history was contaminated by its adoption by Italy’s fascists. The difference between a failed State and a successful one is how this process works. The West has tended to produce groups who seek to improve not just their conditions, but also those of the community – and the nation. Reform movements which began as small groups have shaped America since before the Founding.
- In 1785 Benjamin Franklin and others organized the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society. Others formed around the nation. They meet across the northern states in 1854 to discuss their dissatisfaction with the existing parties. They formed what became the Republican Party.
- In 1764 Samuel Adams and his fellow Boston activists organized a resistance group. Then they reached out to like-minded people in other colonies, forming Committees of Correspondence. Eleven colonies had Committees by February 1774. They gained experience operating on a local scale. They formed the nucleus of shadow governments in the Colonies, which later formed the core of revolutionary governments.
- Local unions first began in the early 19th century. They grew despite being repeatedly and violently crushed by mercs (hired by business owners) and militia (controlled by politicians owned by business owners). In 1932 union members helped elected the Democrats and bring forth the New Deal.
But this automatic machinery just as easily produces criminal groups, such as gangs which evolve into evil organized crime networks. Sometimes groups founded with good intentions become evil.
- Sometime between December 1865 and August 1866, six former officers of the Confederate army started a fraternal social club in Pulaski, Tennessee. Other groups copied them, rapidly spreading across the South. They quickly evolved to become a political force. Their name was derived from the Greek word kuklos (κύκλος) which means “circle.” The KKK.
Much depends on how these groups balance working for their own needs versus those of their communities and nation. That will determine how fast they grow and with what effect on America. Packs that replace our excessive individualism with extreme group loyalty can put America on the Highway to Hell.
“Their citizens glorified their mythology of rights and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure.”
— Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers(1959).
How will women respond?
The gender war is a coed conflict. The Thirty Years War was fought in the 17th century about religion but had Catholics and Protestants fighting on both sides. Today radical feminists have triumphed with the support of their male allies. Some are fellow travelers. Some are leftists who see radical feminists as useful shock troops attacking western society. Some are useful idiots. Some are beta orbiters.
The organizations of the counter-revolution will also have both men and women. Some women will share the men’s values and interests. Some women will be (as always) attracted to strong men. For example, there are hot young women even in most successful groups — even misogynist ones. Bikers, the Bloods and Crips, paramilitary groups (e.g., militia, Antifa, Black Bloc), all-men sports teams – almost all successful groups have women as supporters or participants. {Trivia: 30% of esports fans are female.}
Side note: – This is also true of men. The story is told of General Maxwell Taylor inspecting the 101st Airborne before their 1a.m. drop on D-Day into the darkness over Normandy. He asked a private “Do you like jumping out of airplanes?” The soldier replied, “No, sir! I like being with men who like jumping out of airplanes.”
Perhaps most importantly – if the counter-revolution becomes strong, large numbers of women will defect from feminists’ losing teams to the new winning teams. That is in their BIOS. See Rome’s abduction of the Sabine Women, Kipling’s story about the Norman Conquest (“Young men in the manor“, 1906), and countless similar episodes in history. Men also do this. Everybody loves winners.
The next post discusses the values of the counter-revolution. These new values will end the gender wars.
Also see Dalrock’s article with his comments about this post.
See the other posts in this series
Describing the situation and how we got here.
- As the Left’s social revolution wins victories, a revolt begins.
- The coming crash as men and women go their own way.
- Is a return to traditional values possible?
- Starting World War G: the gender wars.
- Society changes as men learn the Dark Triad.
- Game is toxic to feminism
- Red Pill knowledge is poison to marriage.
About solutions.
- Men find individual solutions.
- Modern dating: is the only winning move is not to play?
- The end to World War G (the gender wars)
- Men standing together can end the gender wars.
- The next phase of the gender wars will end the gender wars.
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Books about the new era of gender relations
Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream – and Why It Matters
The Privileged Sex
