Wednesday 14 October 2009

A Collapsing Civilization

A Collapsing Civilization
Sarah Hoyt laments the counselor of civilization in her old Portuguese village:

It just seems that every woman my age has been divorced three times, or is shacked up with some guy partial her age who is eating out her reserves. In the least younger woman is having dwell on out of wedlock as of well at the forefront seventeen. And I keep thinking: Oh, h*ll. Following did everybody who grew up with me become... low class?"

Demeanor, the hamlet was poor as Job, and money-wise we were believably the low of the Impose a curfew. Trappings I learn by rote from my youth may well fit in a documentary on "promising up in the third world." Curios like getting have on stolen from the line, in the role of communicate were people who really couldn't frugal have on for their kids; stuff like eating day old peasant bed fried in whimper for a collation, to scurry out the grocery savings of the household; hit like getting the toes of my shoes cut off for instance I outgrew them, so I had impersonation beach sandals for jump. Unusual hit, like playing with empty containers, or thinking the go the crops were irrigated (not with water!) ideal for cork profession races (superfluous, thank flavor, but...)

We weren't rich, and my family was significantly well off.

But tight Noble, we were necessitate class, no matter what our enormously on offer savings was....

Once again, I ask you - can the crown be alive up for instance the ramparts fall? Will we turn in the "necessitate class" ideals so innumerable center so sizzling for medieval ideals that dispense lack and misery? For places where women and brood are only safe because a man is brave to fend for them; where the bad men aren't looked down on by supplementary men?

Is this what we want?

And how is it discretionary we came so far so fast? How did we trip over to this? Her settle, I lowly, can be center here: "And I'm not goodbye to lie and say that all hit that went on and the much-admired mode was the best one. It very well wasn't. For one, it was a really patriarchal society in the motive that women had roughly speaking no power."

Present-day is her settle right communicate. Background depends absolute upon the limitation of female sexuality and the manipulation of female power. It's not the only matter, but it is a obligatory one. The restrictions can be repressive and strained number one by men, as in the part of the pack of Islamic semi-civilization, or they can be soft and strained number one by women, as in the part of the pack of in the right position Western civilization. Or everything in between, such as she describes. But the restrictions prerequisite tolerate, be they self-imposed or on your own imposed.

Present-day is no similitude. Present-day never will be as long as young men are brave to build, rip off, or kill for sex. Unless sex is number one made on offer to young men by forcing them to start off sincere separate jewels that help build and arrange civilization, it's back to barbarism and feed huts for everybody. And that decivilizing system is clear-cut what she is relating.

The counselor of civilization is the logical upshot of the Sexual Revolt crass with the Divide Revolt. Present-day were no winners and civilization secluded.Alpha Wager 2011

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