Quote of the Day
Commenting on Humanae Vitae , Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission remarked:
“The sexual revolution saw sexuality as something that could be “freed” from the responsibilities of covenant and community. The wreckage is all around us, and the ones who have been hurt the most are women and children. The sexual revolution empowered men to pursue a Darwinian fantasy of the predatory alpha-male, rooted in the values of power, prestige, and personal pleasure. We see this in the divorce culture, in the fatherlessness epidemic, and in the objectification of women in pornography, sex trafficking, and rape.”
My comment: one reason for my skepticism toward what one might call the ‘Alpha Game’ tactic of dealing with the sexual chaos all around us, that is, of bedding as many nubile, innocent, and willing partners as one can defraud and inveigle and seduce into bed, is that this contributes to rather than solves the problem, and it is notoriously short term thinking.
All the lady’s men and swains I knew from my colleges days are unmarried, aging, and miserable bachelors with less chance than Frosty the Snowman in Dante’s Inferno of finding a mate and fathering children, without which life is a worthless heap of rubbish.
It is a tactic rather than a strategy. The only sound strategy is to attack at its root the idea that legal equality with men, that is, the vote and the right to own property in her own name, means being homogenous with men. The only sound strategy is to return first to the pagan notion of men as masculine as Mars and women as feminine as Venus, then to the Christian notion of men as chivalrous and women as pure.
Women make poor men, and all that happens when they drive the masculine spirit out of their lives as fathers, leaders, and bridegrooms to obey is not disobedience and not independence: they merely use Big Brother, the government, as the bridegroom to obey.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
