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December 19, 2008 - 9:44 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-12-20 11:34:33

I think people are missing what is going on here.

It’s not PC itself (which is the symptom not the disease). It’s not multiculturalism itself either, or the sclerotic social and economic policies that lock in the advantaged and disadvantage young men.

These are all merely symptoms of cultural, political, and social power shifting from one group to another.

Which is the shift in all Western nations from male-dominance to female dominance.

Sclerotic, stasis-driven economies with status and connections determining who “wins” and who “loses” in a zero-sum game with no expansion of total opportunities?

That’s a classic case of a female-dominated society with defacto aristocracies. Or more to the point, single women. Who enjoy “relative” (though rapidly declining) secure, “hip” urban environments and prolonged single hood, with “hip” and “fashionable” clothes, politics, and so on ending in single motherhood or simply being alone.

We are seeing that in the US as well, anyone watching HGTV can see the same types of people show up again and again in “Househunters” and “Househunters International” coming from the same international single young yuppie class for the most part. Desiring “hip/young” places in urban centers to be “cool” in the status fights for mating/dating/socializing that simply never ends.

The US Census Bureau announced that it is measuring “parenthood” in a new way, to combat the plague of single-motherhood: any two people cohabitating with children in the household however briefly are defined as “parents” no matter the biological or matrimonial relationships. So if Mom’s boyfriend lives with her a month, that’s a two-parent family.

Yes of course young Greek Men, who have no chance at a family, or for many of them any significant dating/relationship opportunities (the women being soaked up in the “soft” Polygamy of Europe/America’s rich urban centers of a few hereditary male winners), are rioting.

Wow, what a concept. Men fighting over women! Who could have thought that would happen in “enlightened” socialist Europe? Heck it’s the whole point of a socialist economy/culture. Advantaging women (who generally prefer a soft polygamy) and a few hereditary male winners.

Is this system stable? I would say not. There is simply too many male losers who can use violence to even the odds. “Burn the system down” to make the hereditary male winners into losers, and perhaps kick out the supports for single mothers.